[8] Choose the correct verb tense, Present Perfect or

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PRESENT PERFECT AND PAST TENSES
Vocable: Notes from a small island, p. 11
Choose the correct verb tense, Present Perfect or Simple Past,
to complete the sentences.
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1.
I know Sealand exists because I ..... there.
2.
We ..... from the Thames Estuary in the dead of night.
3.
Four-and-a-half hours after we ....., there it was.
4.
The landing stage ..... long ago smashed to pieces by the waves.
5.
Like many small islands, Sealand ..... a history of invasion.
6.
I ..... honoured, as I watched the sun come up.
7.
Sealand ..... in 1943 by the Royal Navy.
8.
To some extent Sealand ..... a joke.
9.
Now, a film script about it ..... by Hollywood.
❑ have been / ❑ went
❑ have embarked / ❑ embarked
❑ have left / ❑ left
❑ has been /❑ was
❑ has suffered / ❑ suffered
❑ have felt / ❑ felt
❑ has been built / ❑ was built
❑ has always been / ❑ was always
❑ has been snapped up / ❑ was snapped up
10. The country's football opponents so far ..... Alderney and the Chagos Islands.
❑ have included / ❑ included
11.
A data storage company ..... in 1999 during the dotcom boom, but ..... a few
years later.
❑ has come / ❑ came
❑ has left / ❑ left
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SCORE
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VOCABLE PLUS N. 667