Exercises

Read, translate and retell the text

Give the meaning of the new words as in the example

Food-something that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep them alive

Muscles, Vegetable, Yogurt, Cracked-wheat, Food-processing company, Food store, Belief, Custom, Odor, Nerve

Find the Passive sentences from the text

4. Complete the sentences using one of these verbs in the correct form, present or past:

Cause damage hold invite make

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1 Many accidents....................................... by dangerous driving.

2 Cheese........................................................................from milk.

3 The roof of the building...........................................in a storm a few days ago.

4 You........................................................ to the wedding. Why didn't you go?

5 A cinema is a place where films.........................................................................

6 In the United States, elections for president...........................every four years.

7 Originally the book.......in Spanish, and a few years ago it...........into English.

8 Although we were driving quite fast, we.........................by a lot of other cars.

9 You can't see the house from the road. It............................................ by trees.

Write questions using the passive. Some are present and some are past.

1 Ask about glass, (how / make?).....................................................................

2 Ask about television, (when / invent?)..........................................................

3 Ask about mountains, (how / form?)............................................................

4 Ask about Pluto {the planet), (when / discover?)............................................

5 Ask about silver, (what/ use for?)...................................................................

Put the verb into the correct form, present simple or past simple, active or passive.

1 It's a big factory. Five hundred people....... (employ) there.

2 …………………. (somebody / clean) this room yesterday?

3 Water............................................. (cover) most of the earth's surface.

4 How much of the earth's surface.........................................(cover) by water?

5 The park gates............................................ (lock) at 6.30 p.m. every evening.

6 The letter...................... (post) a week ago and it.......... (arrive) yesterday.

7 The boat hit a rock and.... …(sink) quickly. Fortunately everybody.......(rescue).

8 Richard's parents......... (die) when he was very young. He and his sister..........(bring up) by their grandparents.

9 I was born in London, but I..............................(grow up) in Canada.

10 While I was on holiday, my camera...............(steal) from my hotel room.

11 While I was on holiday, my camera............(disappear) from my hotel room.

12 Why...........................(Sue / resign) from her job? Didn't she enjoy it?

13 Why..................................(Bill / sack) from his job? What did he do wrong?

14 The company is not independent. It.........(own) by a much larger company.

15 I saw an accident last night. Somebody............................(call) an ambulance but nobody.................. (injure), so the ambulance..................... (not / need).

16 Where...............(these photographs / take)? In London?

........... (you / take) them, or somebody else?

17 Sometimes it's quite noisy living here, but it's not a problem for me -I................... (not / bother) by it.

Rewrite these sentences. Instead of using somebody, they, people etc., write a passive sentence.

1 Somebody cleans the room every day...................................................

2 They cancelled all flights because of fog. All.............................................

3 People don't use this road much......................................................

4 Somebody accused me of stealing money. I...................................................

5 How do people learn languages? How..............................................

6 Somebody warned us not to go out alone

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