Question

1Complete the short biography of the climbed and artist Eliza Kubarska by changing the verbs into either the past simple or the present perfect tense.

Eliza Kubarska is one of the most courageous women I ........ (ever hear) about. She is a climber, and in her career she ......(go) to some of the most challenging places on Earth. Her passion ......(did take) her to Mali, the Himalayas and the Atlas mountains. When she was in her teens she ......(win) the Polish speed-climbing championship. When she .....(be) a student she ......(go) to the Warsaw Academy of Fine Art. In 2007 she and her climbing partner .......(complete) a new route up a granite wall in the Atlas mountains. She..... (also climb) the highest cliff face in the world which is in Greenland. It rises 1.600 metres out of the sea , so she and her climbing partner ...........(have to arrive) at the bottom of the cliff by kayak. A few years ago she ......(found) a climbing school just for girls in Warsaw.

2.Read the story about Marek Kamiński and put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense- present perfect or past simple.

Marek Kamiński........(be) one of the best known Polish explorers of the last decades. He ......(be/born) in Gdańsk in 1964, but she .....(grow up) in Połczyn Zdrój. In 1982 he.......(graduate) from high school in Koszalin and.....(go on) to study philosophy and physics at Warsaw University. He.....(go through) many difficult experiences in his lifetime, but the most decisive one......(be) a childhood accident in which he almost .......(lose) his arm and ......(have to) to spend long weeks in hospital. It.....(be) then that he.....(decide) to travel the world. He.....(live) this childhood dream ever since them. In 1995 he.....(reach) both poles in a single year and he.....(make) in without any assistance. He.....(be) the first and only person so far to do such a feat. In his life he.....(take part) in over 30 big expeditions to various parts of the world. Marek Kamiński loves what he does and he is extremely active sharing his knowledge and experiences with others. He.....(write)many books about his travels and adventures and.....(publish) his articles and photographs in various periodicals including National Geographic and Voyage. What's more, Kamiński .....(produce) films based on his expeditions and......(give) plenty of lectures in Poland the United States and other places around the world. Marek lives in Sopot with his wife and daughter.

Answer 1

1 I have ever heard

2went

3took

4 won

5was

6went

7completed

8has also climbed

9had to arrive

10 has founded

 

 

1was

2was born

3grown up

4graduated

5went on

6went trough

7was

8 lost

9had to

10was

11decided

12has lived

13reached

14made

15has been

16took part

17has written

18has published

19has produced

20has given