Verb tenses

55Present Tenses.Present Simple & Present Continuous who named his Rottweiler ‘Big Brother’ — that’s the guard dog that (16) … (stand) right behind you!’ 47C. Complete the text with the Present Simple or Present Contin-uous form of the verb in brackets. Where both are possible, write both.Students now taking longer to finish studies In the USA some university students nowadays (1) … (spend) more and more time in university before graduating. In American universities, many students (2) … (pay) their own fees, and this (3) … (mean) more time working and less studying. Alan Chester is a 25-year-old journalism student from Ohio who (4) … (take) six years to complete his undergraduate degree. In order to pay tuition fees and other expenses he (5) … (work) four days a week in the university kitchen, while in the university holidays he (6) … (do) a full-time job. ‘I (7) … (find) it difficult at the moment to study and pay my bills at the same time,’ he (8) … (admit) ‘But I (9) … (try) my best and I (10) … (manage) to keep the wolf from the door.’ Alan’s parents (11) … (understand) his decision to take longer to graduate. ‘They (12) … (know) what I (13) … (go) through, and they (14) … (help) me as much as they can. It’s hard, but I (15) … (learn) to look after myself, and I (16) … (experience) stuff that might be useful one day when I’m a journalist.’ He (17) … (point out) that some students (18) … (take) more time to graduate because they (19) … (not, really, know) what they (20) … (want) to study. ‘New courses of study (21) … (develop) all the time, new subjects (22) … (appear) on the curriculum. Some students (23) … (spend) time experimenting with different courses before choosing their major. So it’s not all about money. I (34) … (think) universities (25) … (go) through a period of change like ev-erything else, and students have to adapt to this changing situation.’