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PRESENT PERFECT OR PAST SIMPLE?

1. Joji ________ in Tokyo for five years, but he left in 1993.

A. lived

B. have lived

2. The Titanic ________ in 1912.

A. sank

B. has sunk

3. Somebody ________ my bicycle! Now I'll have to walk home.

A. stole

B. has stolen

4. Gerry ________ off his bike three times this month.

A. fell

B. has fallen

5. Chika ________ from university last July.

A. graduated

B. has graduated

6. I ________ the movie Titanic three times. I'm going to see it again tonight.

A. saw
B. have seen

7. I ________ to work every day for the last six weeks!

A. walked

B. have walked

8. When Young Hee was a child, she ________ in Seoul.

A. lived

B. has lived

9. Ouch! ________ my finger!

A. I cut

B. I've cut

10. I ________ my key yesterday, so I couldn't get into the house. Eventually, I found it in my
jacket pocket.

A. lost

B. have lost
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Read this story. See if you can work out which the missing words are. Use the words in the
box to fill in the gaps.

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There were two students who went to Kidbrooke (1) ___________. One student was (2)

___________ Rahma who was (3) ___________ Somalia in Africa. She came (4) ___________

live in England (5) ___________ of the war in her country. She has four (6) ___________ who

are all (7) ___________ than her. Rahma enjoys (8) ___________ her lessons at school and is

(9) ___________ good at running. Rahma is twelve (10) ___________ old and comes to school

(11) ___________ bus.

The second student's (12) ___________ is Sofia who is (13) ___________ twelve years old.

Sofia is from (14) ___________, the capital city of Portugal, and (15) ___________ to live in

London last year. (15)___________ lives with her brothers, sister and mother, but (17)

___________ father lives in Portugal. Next year, Sofia's father is (18) ___________ to visit her

and her family. She likes school very (19) ___________ but doesn't (20) ___________ drawing

very much because she finds it hard.

Both these students are in Year 8 and like (21) ___________ computers. Both like talking very

much and sometimes (22) ___________ in class.