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EXERCISE 18 Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.

I 1. _________________ (just / receive) an email from my brother, Bill. He 2. _________________ (work) for
a big firm in Japan. He 3. _________________ (be) there for six months. He 4. _________________ (already /
visit) a lot of places there. He 5. _________________ (soon / fly) to Korea and 6. _________________ (work)
there for another six months. By the time he 7. _________________ (return) home he 8. _________________
(see) lot of countries. Jim 9. _________________ (find) his trip very exciting because he 10. _________________
(never / be) abroad before. On his card he 11. _________________ (write) that what he 12. _________________
(enjoy) most 13. _________________ (be) making friends with people who 14. _________________ (live) in
many different parts of the world. In fact, my brother 15. _________________ (be) a very sociable person. Meeting
new people 16. _________________ (always / interest) him. While he 17. _________________ (attend) the
university, he 18. _________________ (always / be) in charge of the preparations of social activities. By the time
he 19. _________________ (graduate), he 20. _________________ (become) the most popular person at the
university.

EXERCISE 19 Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.

Unfortunately in recent years drug-taking by young people 1. (become) _________________ a habit which 2.
(spread) _________________ fast and wide day by day. Therefore, it 3. (require) _________________ special
attention and help of the society. Actually actors, pop singers, and such popular people 4. (set) _________________
this fashion.
Some psychologists 5. (make) _________________ a research in 1990 to find out how many students 6. (take)
_________________ drugs in a high school in America. The result of their studies 7. (be) _________________
shocking. 35 percent of the students 8. (be) _________________ drug addicts and most of them 9. (start)
_________________ taking drugs in primary school and 10. (take) _________________ them ever since. What’s
more none of them 11. (be) _________________ willing to give up this terrible habit.

Many responsible citizens today 12. (claim) _________________ that the number of drug-taking young people
13. (increase) _________________ rapidly all over the world and 14. (fear) _________________ that the drugs
which they 15. (take) _________________ since their childhood 16. (affect) _______ their health by the time they
17. (be) _________________ aware of the dangers. They 18. (spend) _________________ the rest of their lives
in hospitals and 19. (look) _________________ for cures. Unfortunately it 20. (be) _________________ too late
by then.

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