PRESENT PERFECT or SIMPLE PAST?

1-Black Bears can be up to two meters tall and weigh up to one thousand pounds. And a few even larger specimens (to be seen) ______________________ recently.
2-The Black Bear is, as the name says, black, but there (to be) _________________ exceptions.
3-In 1931, a cowboy named Southerly (to report) _______________ seeing a Black Bear with white stripes!
4-Friends (to say) ______________ that Southerly (to have) ___________________ an alcohol problem.
5-But since that time, there (to be) ______________________ several similar reports.
6-In 1946 Carl Stover, a truck driver, (to say) ________________ that a white-striped
Black Bear (to cross) ____________________ the highway in front of his truck between Dawson and Yukaton.
7-Since then, almost a dozen people (to see) __________________ Black Bears that weren’t 100% black.
8-In the 1940s when paper companies (to start) ___________________ building roads through the Maine woods a large number of bears (to be seen)_____________ __________________.
9-Truckers (to have to) ___________________ stop to let them go by sometimes.
10-In the past few years, Black Bears (to become) ____________________ a problem in some of Maine’s towns.
11-Sometimes they (to be seen) ______________________ in the vicinity of fast food restaurants.
12-According to one eye-witness report , a large bear actually (to enter) __________________ a McDonald’s restaurant a month or two ago.
13-Fortunately, it (to leave) ___________________ soon after because the line (to be) _____________ so long.

Answers: 1-have been seen 2-have been 3-reported 4-said had 5-have been 6-said crossed 7-have seen 8-started were seen 9-have had to 10-have become 11-have been seen 12-entered 13-left was

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