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9. Read, the conversation below and fill the spaces with a in a suitable tense.

Brian & Jessica are on a training course at a company that publishes popular magazines. During their first morning they meet for a coffee.

Brian: Well, Jess, what have you been doing this morning?

Jess: Oh, it has been really busy. I.......... .round, all the different departments to see what they do. (go). What about you? ............ anything interesting? (see)

Brian: I.............. to the finance department, accounts and personnel. (be)

Jess: That doesn't sound very exciting!

Brian: No, you are right. But this afternoon I'm going to see the art department, where they, ............. the designs for all the magazines. (prepare)

Jess: Yes, I. ................ that department already. (see). They. ............ some fascinating pictures today, but they don't always have such interesting material, they said. (visit). And the editors........always............ things at the last moment, which......... everyone very irritable. (change / make)

Brian: And I hear that the art editor has a very short temper.

Jess: Don't worry, he is not there today. He............ to some exhibition. (go)

Brian: Oh, good. Hey, who's that man over there? He.................us since we came in? (watch)

Jess: The one by the door? I don' t know. He. ............like a lawyer or something, not a journalist. (look) Perhaps, he.. .. only....here to look round, like us. (come)

Brian: Careful, he........... this way. (come)

Man: Excuse me, are you the two trainees who. .............. the day here? (spend)

Jess: That's right.

Man: ................ yourselves? (enjoy)

Brian: Er, yes. Thank you. But -

Man: Oh, yes. I'm David Gordon. I.......this company. (own)

10. Read the following passage and put the verbs in the correct form, present perfect or past simple. Then and now

Twenty years ago few people............. (realize) that computers were about to become part of our daily lives. This short period of time...........(see) enormous changes in business, education and public administration. Jobs which.......(take) weeks to complete in the past, are now carried out in minutes. Clerks who.............. (spend) all day copying and checking calculations are now freed from this tedious tasks. In offices, the soft hum and clicking of word processors.........(replace) the clatter of typewriters.

Schoolchildren. ............. (became) as familiar with hardware and software as their parents............ (be) with pencils and exercise books. Computerization of public records......... (enable) government departments to analyze the needs of citizens in detail. Some of us may wonder, however, whether life .......... (really / improve) as a result of these changes.

Many jobs.....................(disappear), for example, when intelligent machines..........(take) over the work.

Employers complain that clerical staff........(become) dependent on calculators and cannot do simple arithmetic. There are fears that governments. ............ (not / do) enough to ensure that personal information held on computers is really kept secret. Certainly, many people may now be wondering whether the spread of computers..........(bring) us as many problems as they. .........(solve).