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The document is an exercise comparing the present perfect and simple past tenses using the context of the Olympic Games. It provides a passage with verbs in brackets that need to be filled in with the correct tense. The passage covers the history of the Olympic Games from ancient times to modern events.

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Gabrielli at I Vida de Ingles

The document is an exercise comparing the present perfect and simple past tenses using the context of the Olympic Games. It provides a passage with verbs in brackets that need to be filled in with the correct tense. The passage covers the history of the Olympic Games from ancient times to modern events.

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Present perfect vs.

Past simple

GABRIELLI MACHADO MARTINELLI 231

Complete the passage below using the correct form of the verb in
brackets (present perfect or simple past)

The Olympic Games

The original Olympic Games ([Link]) began around 800 BC in Ancient Greece, and (2.
continue) continued until they (3be) were abolished by the Roman Emperor Theodosius in AD
393. The first modern Olympics ([Link] place) took place in Athens in 1896, and since then,
more than a dozen different countries ([Link]) staged the Summer Olympics. The cities of
Athens, Paris, London, Berlin and Los Angeles ([Link]) have stage the Olympics twice.
In 1956, Australia (7. become) became the first country outside Europe and
America to stage the Olympics, while Mexico ([Link]) was the first Latin American country to
stage the Olympics, in 1968.
Many of the greatest athletes in the world (9. take part) took part in the Olympic Games, but no
one (10. equal) has equaled the achievements of the great Finnish athlete, Paavo Nurmi,
who between 1920 and 1928 ([Link]) had won nine gold and three silver medals.
The Olympic Games ([Link]) had seen many tragedies and triumphs. For example, in
the marathon of 1908, the little Italian, Dorando Pietri (13collapse) has collapsed five
times in the last part of the race, but ([Link]) came first - only to be disqualified
because spectators (15. help) helped him over the finishing line. And in 1936, the
famous black American
athlete Jesse Owens (16. break) has broken six world records in a single day!
From the first modern Olympics in Athens, when only fourteen countries (17participate)
participated the Olympics (18grow) has grown to include over 140 countries. Gold, silver
and bronze medals (19go) gone to over 8,000 men and women.

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