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read and complete. use the present perfect simple or past simple.
then
and now
by stanley davis
now, look at the picture on the right. what's
the connection? it's the same desk, but now
the price is different: the desk now costs
£25,000!
teen la
the desk in the picture on the left
(1)
has been (be) in mr fox's family
for many years. his grandfather
(2)
(buy) it at a sale sixty
years ago for £10. mr fox's grandmother
(3)
(paint) it a nice cream
colour and (4) (write) all
her letters on it until 1988. then she
(give) it to her grandson
when he (6) (go) to art
school. mr fox (7) (have) it
ever since. he (8) (always /
store) his paints in it. a few years ago, he
even (9)
(put) it in one of his
paintings, 'the artist's studio'.
(5)
'it's amazing, isn't it? ' says mr fox. 'a few
weeks ago, an antique dealer
(10) (come) to my studio to
buy one of my paintings. the minute he saw
my desk, he (11) (know) it
was a valuable antique! well, i hope that my
paintings will cost as much as my desk one
day! ​

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