GRAMMAR

Exercise 8. Complete the following report of an accident which happened in a factory with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

Over the past ten years, this area (1) __ (experience) severe flooding. Houses (2) __ (damage) and roads (3) __(destroy). The local authority (4) __ (decide) to introduce a flood control system. At present our workforce (5) __ (build) a dam on the west side of the town and dikes along the river bank (6) __ (heighten). We must complete the work within two months, so at present we (7) __ (work) 24 hours a day. We (8) __ (believe) that the measures will solve the problem in the short term but on 1st May we (9) __ (start) work on a new watercourse. The plans (10) __ (draw up) already and we (11) __ (be) ready to start next week.