Complete the given passage. Choose your answer from the given options.

Greenpeace …………1………… (is campaigning / has been campaigning) against environmental degradation since 1971 when a small boat of volunteers and journalists …………2………. (sailed / has sailed / had sailed) into Amchitka, an area north of Alaska where the US Government ……………3…………… (conducts / was conducting / is conducting) underground nuclear tests. This tradition of ‘bearing witness’ in a non-violent manner ……………4…………. (continue / continues / is continuing) today.

Greenpeace ……………5…………. (exposes / is exposing / has been exposing) environmental criminals, …………6…………… (challenged / challenges / is challenging) government and corporations when they …………7………….. (fail / fails / have failed) to live up to their mandate to safeguard our environment and our future. It ……………8………… (uses / used / is using) research, lobbying, and quiet diplomacy to pursue our goals, as well as high-profile, non-violent conflict to raise the level and quality of public debate.

Answers

1. has been campaigning

2. sailed

3. was conducting

4. continues

5. exposes

6. challenges

7. fails

8. uses

Notes

We use the simple present tense to talk about facts, general truths, habits and routines.

The present perfect continuous is used to talk about actions or situations that started in the past and has continued up to the present.