Choose the correct verb for each blank
have kept, gained, believe, led, ranks, live, is uninhabited, was recognized
1. Canada ... its independence from Britain in 1931.
2. Much of the rest... or thinly populated because of severe natural conditions.
3. Many of them ... that their province should receive a special recognition in the Canadian constitution.
4. They ... the language and customs of their an-cestors
5. His discovery ... to the European exploration of Canada.
6. Most French Canadians ... in the provinces of Quebec.
7. Canada ... among the world's top manufacturing countries.
8. According to the Constitution Act of 1982 the British Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II of the UK, ... as the Queen of Canada.