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Put each verb in brackets into either the past simple, the present perfect simple,
or the present perfect continuous.
It was announced in London this morning that the British Oil Corporation
(1)
...has discovered.... (discover) oil under the sea near the Welsh coast.
The company, which (2)......
.... (drill) for oil in the area since
2001, (3)............
..(find) small amounts of oil near Swansea last
month, and since then (4).........
........(discover) larger amounts
under the seabed nearby. Last year the government (5).
(lend) over £50,000,000 to BOC, and (6).....
(give)
permission for the company to build an oil refinery and other facilities in South
Wales.
The reaction of local people to today's news (7)........
(be) mixed so far. Local MPs (8).........
....(already welcome) the
news, pointing out that the oil industry will bring badly needed jobs to the
area. But local residents are worried about the danger of pollution. 'Nobody
(9).......
..(ask) us yet what we want,' said Ann Griffiths,
leader of the Keep Out The Oil Campaign. 'Look what
(10).............
..(happen) when they (11)
(find) oil in Scotland in the 1960s. The oil companies
(12).......
..(get) rich, not the local people. BOC
(13).........
...(not tell) us the truth about what this is going to
mean for our people.' A BOC spokesman later (14)
(refuse) to comment. Meanwhile local campaigners
(15)..........
(ask) the government to hold an inquiry.​