Ex.9 Rewrite the following active sentences using passive forms, making the underlined words the subject. Omit the agent if it is not necessary.

Example: The company sent him a letter.

He was sent a letter by the company.

A letter was sent to him by the company.

1. They have just sent me a whole lot of junk mail.

2. The Credit Bank lent her two thousand pounds in1999.

3. They gave him a bottle of milk every day.

4. They showed us the sights of the city.

5. The employer will pay them $50 every Friday.

6. The magician told you the secret.

7. They offered her the job.

Ex.10. Fill in the spaces in this text. Use a verb in the list and an appropriate form of the passive. The first is given as an example.

Interview (2) design renovate award base build consider (2) show equip provide close visit

A REPORT

This report has been produced at the request of the Hotel and Catering Association. The survey on which the report (1)_____________ was carried out between March 25 and March 30, 1999. Twenty hotel managers (2) _____________ for the purposes of this report. The majority of the hotels which (3) _____________ (all in the Brighton area) (4) _____________ in the last twenty years and (5) _____________ to meet the needs of the modern tourists . One hotel which (6) _____________ unacceptable by the Association (7) _____________ at the end of the tourist season. Some of the older ones (8) _____________ recently and also meet the highest standards. This (9) _____________ by the fact that all the hotels (10) _____________ with modern facilities, from swimming pools to satellite TV. In addition, the usual services (11) _____________ (room service, laundry service) and the restaurant and bar service (12) _____________ satisfactory in most cases. Most of the hotel staff who (13) _____________ were highly qualified or experienced. Seventy-five per cent of the hotels in this report (14) _____________ a three or four star rating by the tourist board.

Ex.11. Most of these sentences contain one mistake. Correct it or write “right”.

1 My neighbour is very proud of her new grandson who born last week.

2 I’m very fond of this old brooch because it was belong to my grandmother.

3 My family live in Scotland but I was educated in France.

4 The bridge was collapsed during the floods but fortunately no one was using it at the time.

5 If you aren’t careful what you’re doing with that hammer someone will hurt in a minute!

6 The word ‘stupid’ was in my report but it wasn’t referred to you.

7 I’m sorry I’m late. I got held up in the traffic.

8 Children under the age of seven do not allow in this pool.

PRACTICE

Ex.1. Directions: Use any appropriate tense for the verbs in parentheses.

1. My grandfather (fly, never) _____________________ in an airplane, and he has no intention of ever doing so.

2. Jane isn't here yet. I (wait) _____________________ for her since noon, but she still (arrive, not) _____________________ .

3. In all the world, there (be) _____________________ only 14 mountains that (reach) _____________________ above 8,000 meters (26,247 feet).

4. I have a long trip ahead of me tomorrow, so I think I'd better go to bed. But let me say good-bye now because I won't see you in the morning. I (leave, already) __________________ by the time you (get) _______________ up.

5. Right now we (have) __________________ a heat wave. The temperature (be) ____________________ in the upper 90s (upper 30s Celsius) for the last six days.

6. Last night I (go) _______________ to a party. When I (get) ________________ there, the room was full of people. Some of them (dance) _________________, and others (talk) _________________. One young woman (stand) __________________ by herself. I (meet, never) ______________ her, so I (introduce) ____________ myself to her.

7. About three yesterday afternoon, Jessica (lie) ___________________ in bed reading a book. Suddenly she (hear) ___________________ a loud noise and (get) _____________________ up to see what it was. She (look) _____________________ out the window. A truck (back, just) _____________________ into her new car!

8. Next month I have a week's vacation. I (plan) __________________ to take a trip. First, I (go) _____________________ to Madison, Wisconsin, to visit my brother. After I (leave) _____________________ Madison, I (go) _____________________ to Chicago to see a friend who (study) _____________________ at the university there. She (live) _____________________ in Chicago for three years, so she (know) ____________________ her way around the city. She (promise) _____________________ to take me to many interesting places. I (be, never) _____________________ in Chicago, so I (look) _____________________ forward to going there.

9. Yesterday while I (sit) _____________________ in class, I (get) _____________________ the hiccups. The person who (sit) _____________________ next to me told me to hold my breath. I (try) _____________________ that, but it didn't work. The instructor (lecture) _____________________, and I didn't want to interrupt him, so I just sat there trying to hiccup quietly. Finally, after I (hiccup) _____________________ for almost five minutes, I (raise) _____________________ my hand and (excuse) _____________________ myself from class to go get a drink of water.

10. The weather has been terrible lately. It (rain) _____________________ off and on for two days, and the temperature (drop) _____________________ drastically. It (be) _____________________ really cold today. Just three days ago, the sun (shine) _____________________ and the weather (be) _____________________ pleasant. The weather certainly (change) _____________________ quickly here. I never know what to expect. Who knows? When I (wake) _____________________ up tomorrow morning, maybe it (snow) _____________________.

Ex.2. Directions: Complete the sentences with the verbs in parentheses. Use any appropriate tense.

On June 20th, I returned home. 1(1. be) ________________ away from home for two years. My family (2. meet) ________________ me at the airport with kisses and tears. They (3. miss) ________________ me as much as I had missed them. I (4. be) ________________ very happy to see them again. When I (5. get) ________________ the chance, I (6. take) ________________ a long look at them. My little brother (7. be) ________________ no longer little. He (8. grow) ________________ a lot. He (9. be) ________________ almost as tall as my father. My little sister (10. wear) ________________ a green dress. She (11. change) ________________ quite a bit, too, but she (12. be, still) ________________ mischievous and inquisitive. She (13. ask) ________________ me a thousand questions a minute, or so it seemed. My father (14. gain) ________________ some weight, and his hair (15. turn) ________________ a little grayer, but otherwise he was just as I had remembered him. My mother (16. look) _ ________________ a little older, but not much. The wrinkles on her face (17. be) ________________ smile wrinkles.

Ex.3. Directions: Complete the sentences with the verbs in parentheses. Use any appropriate tense.

On June 20th, I will return home. I (I. be) ________________ away from home for two years by that time. My family (2. meet) ________________ me at the airport with kisses and tears. They (3. miss) ________________ me as much as I have missed them. I (4. be) ________________ very happy to see them again. When I (5. get) ________________ a chance, I (6. take) ________________ a long look at them. My little brother (7. be, no longer) ______________________________________ ________________ so little. He (8. grow) ________________ at least a foot. He (9. be) _______________ almost as tall as my father. My little sister (10. wear, probably) ________________ a green dress because that's her favorite color. She (11. change) ________________ quite a bit, too, but she (12. be, still) ________________ mischievous and inquisitive. She (13. ask) ________________ me a thousand questions a minute, or so it will seem. My father (14. gain, probably) ________________ some weight, and his hair (15. turn) ________________ a little grayer, but otherwise he will be just as I remember him. My mother (16. look) ________________ a little older, but not much. The wrinkles on her face (17. be) ________________ smile wrinkles.

Ex.4. Directions: Complete the sentences with the verbs in parentheses. Use any appropriate tense.

PART I.

A: What (1. seem) ____________________ to be the trouble, Ms. Jones?

B: I (2. send) ____________________ in my money for a subscription to your magazine, Computer Data, two months ago, but to date I (3. receive, not) ______________________ any issues.

A: I'm sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, one of our main computers (4. function, not) ____________________ at the moment. However, our computer specialists (5. work) ____________________ very hard to fix it at the present time. We (6. start) ___________________ your new subscription as soon as possible.

B: Thank you.

PART II.

A: Where's Sonia? 1(1. see, not) _____________________ her lately.

B: She (2. recuperate, at home) ________________________________.

A: Oh? What (3. recuperate, she) _________________________ from?

B: She (4. hurt) ________________ her back while she (5. play) ________________ volleyball last week in the game against South City College.

A: What happened? How (6. she, hurt) _____________________ her back?

B: She (7. try) ________________ to spike a ball when she (8. collide) ________________ with another player and (9. fall) ________________ to the ground. She (10. land) ________________ hard and (11. twist) ________________ her back.

A: Gosh, that's too bad. I'm sorry to hear that. How's she doing?

B: Well, she's pretty uncomfortable. She (12. wear) ________________ a special brace on her back for the last five days. Needless to say, she (13. be, not) ________________ able to play volleyball since her injury. She probably (14. be, not) ________________ able to play again for at least a month.

A: (15. her doctor, allow) ________________________ her to play in the national tournament at the end of the summer?

B: She (16. have) ________________ the brace on her back for more than seven weeks by then, so I think he will.

A: I hope so. I know how much she likes to compete in volleyball games. And the team really needs her.

PART III.

A: Hi, Jim. How's it going?

B: Great.

A: (1. you, enjoy) ________________________ the rock concert last night?

B: You bet! I had a terrific time.

A: Tell me about it. I (2. go, never) _____________________ to a rock concert.

B: Well, I (3. go, never) _____________________ to a rock concert before either, so I (4. know, not) _____________________ what to expect. I've been to symphony concerts lots of times, but never a rock concert. Ten minutes before the concert was supposed to start, hundreds of teenagers (5. try, still) _____________________ to find their seats. The place was a madhouse. I thought that things would settle down once the concert began. Boy, was I wrong! As soon as the lead singer (6. appear) ________________ on the stage, everyone (7. start) ________________ screaming at the top of their lungs. I couldn't hear myself think. But after a while things calmed down. And the music was great. At one time during the concert, while the lead singer (8. sing) _____________________ a famous hit song, many people in the audience knew the song so well that they sang along with him. All in all, the concert (9. be) _____________________ a lot of fun, but very noisy.

A: It does sound like it was a lot of fun!

PART IV.

Mark Twain, the author of the The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. He (1. grow up) _____________________ in a small town on the Mississippi River. As a young boy, he (2. admire, greatly) _____________________ the pilots of the riverboats and dreamed about being a riverboat pilot on the mighty river. He pursued his dream, and by the age of 22, he himself (3. become) _____________________ a riverboat pilot. Later in life, when he (4. become) _____________________ a writer, many of his stories (5. contain) _____________________ elements of his own experiences. He wrote many humorous stories and articles about life on the Mississippi River before he (6. die) ________________ in 1910 at the age of 74. Sadly, Twain (7. work) ________________ on a new story for several months before his death, but he (8. finish, never) _____________________ it. Over the years since his death, his boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, (9. become) ________________ a favorite place for Americans to visit to learn about Twain and life on the Mississippi at the turn of the 19th century.

Ex.5. Directions: Choose the correct answer.

Example: I've been in this city for a long time. I _C_ here sixteen years ago.

A. have come B. was coming C. came D. had come

1. "Hurry up! We're waiting for you. What's taking you so long?"

"I ____ for an important phone call. Go ahead and leave without me."

A. wait B. will wait C. am waiting D. have waited

2. "Robert is going to be famous someday. He ____ in three movies already.''

"I'm sure he'll be a star."

A. has been appearing C. has appeared

B. had appeared D. appeared

3. "Where's Polly?"

"She ____ ."

A. is in her room studying C. studies in her room

B. in her room is studying D. has in her room studied

4. "Hello? Alice? This is Jeff. How are you?"

"Jeff? What a coincidence! I ____ about you when the phone rang."

A. was just thinking C. have just been thinking

B. just thought D. was just thought

5. "What ____ about the new simplified tax law?"

"It's more confusing than the old one."

A. are you thinking C. have you thought

B. do you think D. have you been thinking

6. "When is Mr. Fields planning to retire?"

"Soon, I think. He ____ here for a long time. He'll probably retire either next year or the year after that."

A. worked C. has been working

B. had been working D. is working

7. "Why did you buy all this sugar and chocolate?"

"I ____ a delicious dessert for dinner tonight."

A. make C. am going to make

B. will make D. will have made

8. "Let's go! What's taking you so long?"

“I'll be there as soon as I ____ my keys.”

A. found C. find

B. will find D. am finding

9. Next week when there ____ a full moon, the ocean tides will be higher.

A. is being C. will be

B. is D. will have been

10. While I ____ TV last night, a mouse ran across the floor.

A. watch C. was watching

B. watched D. am watching

11. Fish were among the earliest forms of life. Fish ____ on earth for ages and ages.

A. existed C. exist

B. are existing D. have existed

12. The phone ____ constantly since Jack announced his candidacy for president this morning.

A. has been ringing C. had rung

B. rang D. had been ringing

13. The earth ____ on the sun for its heat and light.

A. is depend C. has depend

B. depending D. depends

14. I don't feel good. I ____ home from work tomorrow.

A. am staying C. will have stayed

B. stay D. stayed

15. Today there are weather satellites that beam down information about the earth's atmosphere. In the last two decades, space exploration ____ great contributions to weather forecasting.

A. is making C. made

B. has made D. makes

16. On July 20, 1969, Astronaut Neil Armstrong ____ down onto the moon, the first person ever to set foot on another celestial body.

A. was stepping C. has stepped

B. stepped D. was step

17. The plane's departure was delayed because of mechanical difficulties. When the weary passengers finally boarded the aircraft, many were annoyed and irritable because they ____in the airport for three and a half hours.

A. are waiting C. have been waiting

B. were waiting D. had been waiting

18. If coastal erosion continues to take place at the present rate, in another fifty years this beach ____ anymore.

A. doesn't exist C. isn't existing

B. isn't going to exist D. won't be existing

19. Homestead High School's football team ____ a championship until last season, when the new coach led them to win first place in their league.

A. has never won C. had never been winning

B. is never winning D. had never won

20. Non-native speakers need many years of intensive language study before they can qualify as interpreters. By the end of this year, Chen ____ : English for three years, but he will still need more training and experience before he masters the language.

A. will be studying C. will have been studying

B. has studied D. has been studying

Ex.6. Directions: Choose the correct answer.

Example: I've been in this city for a long time. I _C_ here sixteen years ago.

A. have come B.was coming C. came D. had come

1. "May I speak to Dr. Paine, please?"

"I'm sorry, he ____ a patient at the moment. Can I help you?"

A. is seeing C. has been seeing

B. sees D. was seeing

2. "When are you going to ask your boss for a raise?"

" ____ to her twice already! I don't think she wants to give me one."

A. I've talked C. I was talking

B. I've been talking D. I'd talked

3. "Do you think Harry will want something to eat after he gets here?" "I hope not. It'll probably be after midnight, and we ____ ."

A. are sleeping C. have been sleeping

B. will be sleeping D. be sleeping

4. Paul, could you please turn off the stove? The potatoes ____ for at least thirty minutes.

A. are boiling C. have been boiling

B. boiling D. were boiling

5. "Is it true that spaghetti didn't originate in Italy?"

"Yes. The Chinese ____ spaghetti dishes for a long time before Marco Polo brought it back to Italy."

A. have been making C. had been making

B. have made D. make

6. "I once saw a turtle that had wings. The turtle flew into the air to catch insects." "Stop kidding. I ____ you!"

A. don't believe C. didn't believe

B. am not believing D. wasn't believing

7. "Could someone help me lift the lawnmower into the pickup truck?" "I'm not busy. I ____ you."

A. help C. am going to help

B. will help D. am helping

8. My family loves this house. It ____ the family home ever since my grandfather built it 60 years ago.

A. was C. is

B. has been D. will be

9. Here's an interesting statistic: On a typical day, the average person ____ about 48,000 words. How many words did you speak today?

A. spoke C. speaks

B. was speaking D. is speaking

10. I know you feel bad now, Tommy, but try to put it out of your mind. By the time you're an adult, you ____ all about it.

A. forget C. will forget

B. will have forgotten D. forgot

11. It's against the law to kill the black rhinoceros. They____ extinct.

A. became C. become

B. have become D. are becoming

12. After ten unhappy years, Janice finally quit her job. She ____ along with her boss for a long time before she finally decided to look for a new position.

A. hadn't been getting C. didn't get

B. isn't getting D. hasn't been getting

13. The National Hurricane Center is closely watching a strong hurricane over the Atlantic Ocean. When it ____ the coast of Texas sometime tomorrow afternoon, it will bring with it great destructive force.

A. reaches C. is reaching

B. will reach D. reaching

14. At one time, huge prehistoric reptiles dominated the earth. This Age of Dinosaurs ____ much longer than the present Age of Mammals has lasted to date.

A. lasted C. has lasted

B. was lasting D. had lasted

15. Jim, why don't you take some time off? You ____ too hard lately. Take a short vacation.

A. worked C. were working

B. work D. have been working

16. The city is rebuilding its dilapidated waterfront, transforming it into a pleasant and fashionable outdoor mall. Next summer when the tourists arrive, they ____ 104 beautiful new shops and restaurants in the area where the old run-down waterfront properties used to stand.

A. will found C. will have found

B. will be finding D. will find

17. A minor earthquake occurred at 2:07a.m. on January 3. Most of the people in the village ____ at the time and didn't even know it had occurred until the next morning.

A. slept C. were sleeping

B. had slept D. sleep

18. The little girl started to cry. She ____ her doll, and no one was able to find it for her.

A. has lost C. was losing

B. had lost D. was lost

19. According to research reports, people usually ____ in their sleep 25 to 30 times each night.

A. turn C. have turned

B. are turning D. turned

20. Jane's eyes burned and her shoulders ached. She ____ at the computer for five straight hours. Finally, she took a break.

A. is sitting C. was sitting

B. has been sitting D. had been sitting

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