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20. Read the conversation below and fill the spaces with a verb a suitable tenseBrian and Jessica are on a training course at a company that publishes popular magazines. During their first morning, they meet for a coffee.

B: Well, Jess, what have you been doing this morning?

J: Oh, its been really busy. (1) Ive been going round all the different departments to see what they do. What about you? (2) Have you seen anything interesting?

B: (3) Ive been to the finance department, accounts and personnel.

J: That doesnt sound very exciting!

B: No, youre right. But this afternoon Im going to see the art department, where they (4) do the designs for all the magazines.J: Yes, (5) Ive visited that department already. They (6) are doing some fascinating pictures today, but they dont always have such interesting material, they said. And the editor (7) is always changing things at the last moment, which (8) makes everyone very irritable.

B: And I hear that the art editor has a very short temper.

J: Dont worry, hes not there today. (9) Hes gone to some exhibition.

B: Oh, good. Hey, whos that man over there? (10) Hes been watching us since we came in.

J: The one by the doctor? I dont know. (11) He looks like a lawyer or something, not a journalist. Perhaps (12) hes only come here to look around like us. B: Careful, (13) hes coming this wayMAN: Excuse me, are you the two trainees who (14) are spending the day here?

J: Thats right

MAN: Er, yes. Thank you. But-

MAN: Oh, yes. Im David Gordon. I run in this company