Page 32 - English Grammar in Use Suppl. Ex. - Fifth Edition

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13–14 Present perfect and past simple

40 Put the verbs into the correct form: present perfect simple or past simple. Read the whole
text before you begin.

Then and Now

Thirty years ago only a few people (1) realised clerk who (11) (know) your name
(realise) how greatly technology was about to with an impersonal website. Teachers complain
transform everyone’s daily lives. These few that students (12) (learn) to copy
decades (2) (see) enormous and paste instead of thinking for themselves.
changes in how people live, study and work. There are fears that governments and companies
Trips to the supermarket which once (13) (not / do) enough to safeguard
(3) (take) half the weekend have personal data stored online. Certainly, some of us
been replaced with online ordering. Music lovers may now be wondering whether modern technology
who once (4) (spend) hours (14) (bring) us as many problems
wandering around shops, simply download the as it (15) (solve).
tracks they want to hear. Information which
(5) (require) hours of research in
a library (6) (become) available
to anybody in a few clicks on the keyboard. The
spread of laptops and wi-fi (7)
(enable) students and business people to work
almost anywhere at anytime and mobile phones
(8) (transform) the way people
organise their lives.
However, some people question how much
our lives (9) (improve) over
these years. Online banking, for example,
(10) (replace) the friendly bank

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