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Gap Filling Verbs Exercise

September 19th, 2023 in English Quiz

Fill in the blanks with an appropriate tense form.

Renowned archeologist Denis Price, who …………… (shoots / shot / has shot) to fame last year with his amazing discovery of Stonehenge’s lost altar stone now …………… (is claiming / claims / cliam) to have found the famed ‘Lost city of Apollo’ around the Neolithic structure. Many experts ………….. (are believing / believe / believed) the lost city is a myth, but Price ………………. (convinces / is convinced / has convinced) that the city exists and that it is situated right on the outskirts of Salisbury where the Stonehenge ……………. (situates / is situated / is situating).

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Renowned archeologist Denis Price, who shot to fame last year with his amazing discovery of Stonehenge’s lost altar stone now claims to have found the famed ‘Lost city of Apollo’ around the Neolithic structure. Many experts believe the lost city is a myth, but Price is convinced that the city exists and that it is situated right on the outskirts of Salisbury where the Stonehenge is situated.

Passage 2

Twin terror strikes in Hyderabad …………… (claim / claimed / claims) more than 42 lives on Sunday, August 26. It is not clear who ………… (plots / plotted / has plotted) and executed the blasts. India …………… (lost / had lost / was lost) more than 3,600 lives to terrorist attacks in the last three years. Only war-torn Iraq …………… (loses / is losing) more people to terror than India.

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Twin terror strikes in Hyderabad claimed more than 42 lives on Sunday, August 26. It is not clear who plotted and executed the blasts. India lost more than 3,600 lives to terrorist attacks in the last three years. Only war-torn Iraq loses more people to terror than India.