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Fill in the gaps with the right tense form of the verb (passive or active). SPONSORS SAY POLE REACHED AFTER ALL HISTORY (1)... (re-write) yesterday as the sponsors of David Hempleman-Adams solo balloon expedition claimed that he in fact (2)... (make) it to the North Pole after all. On Thursday afternoon, the Britannic Challenges control centre (3)... (decide) to stop the attempt when the explorers balloon (4)... (be) 12.9 miles short of true north. At 4 pm yesterday the expedition website (5)... (go) offline. When it (6)... (reappear) half an hour later, it claimed that the Pole itself (7)... (conquer). David Hempleman-Adams, the solo pilot of the Britannic Challenge balloon, (8)... (become) the first person to reach the North Pole by balloon, (9)... (trumpet) the websites home page. He (10) (reach) the North Pole plateau at 3 am this morning, and in the last hour David actually (11)... (manage) to manoeuvre the Britannic Challenge balloon to the North Pole itself.quot; Elsewhere, a carefully worded press release, which (12)... (replace) Thursdays version, said: As the weather conditions were bad at the Pole, a landing (13)... (be) not possible. Expedition spokeswoman Claire Ingman (14)... (blame) the inaccuracy on technical problems, adding: It all comes down to this definition of what actually is reaching the Pole.quot;