For each sentence, fill in each blank with the simple past or simple present form of the verb in
parentheses.
1. More than 50 years after President Kennedy
______(sign) the Equal Pay Act, the
gap between salaries for men and women
________(remain) a problem today.
2. Last year's study__________
(find) that in the last decade the pay gap
_________(become) greater the longer a person was in the workforce.
3. The United States is one of few countries in the developed world that currently
________(use) the death penalty. Mexico, its neighbor to the south,
_______(end) the death penalty in 2005.
4. During the 1950s and 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
______(lead) the civil rights
movement in the United States. Civil rights
______(include) the right to vote, the
right to a fair trial, and the right to an education.
5. Fifteen nations___________
(make up) the UN Security Council. The Security Council
____(hold) its first session on January 17, 1946, in London.
