Exercise 13.

Choose the correct form: Active or Passive.

1. This problem will discuss/ will be discussed at the conference.

2. Students have given/ have been given a new pay rise by the government.

3. Walt Disney created/ was created the cartoon character of Mickey Mouse.

4. This firm was established/ established by my father.

5. Many new houses have built/ have been built in our district this year.

6. The test had been written/ had written by the students for the bell rang.

7. The children are being played/ are playing football in the yard.

8. The suit-case had been packed/ had packed by 6 o’clock as the train started/ was started at 7.

9. The house was very old and it was lived in/ lived in only in summer.

Exercise 14.

Open the brackets using the right form of the verb in the Passive Voice.

The Loch Ness Monster.

The story of the Loch Ness Monster begins in 1933 when it (to see) for the first time. Since then it (to see) at last once every year and (to photograph) many times. The first photograph (to take) by a local man in November, 1933. On one occasion large brown eyes (to see) and horns (to report) several times. Ears (not to mention) yet.

The monster, however, (not to forget) and probably never (to forget). It is known that it sometimes leaves the loch and few years ago it (to see) running along the main road not far from a cafe. Occasionally two monsters (to see) at the same time. It (not to know) whether they are father and son, husband and wife, or perhaps monster and girl-friend. But the monster and its activities (to consider) still a mystery.

Итоговый тест

Variant №1

1) The Student.. to translate this article without a dictionary.

a) can b) is able c) must

2) The book.. by the end of September.

a) would been published

b) will have been published

c) will been published

3) Our Teacher... two foreign languages

a) speaks b) is speaking c) speak

4) She... him do the job again.

a) did b) made c) make

5) We.. late if the bus doesn't arrive.

a) shall be b) will c) will be

6)... anything tomorrow morning? - No, I am free.

a) Do you do b) Are you doing c) Will you do

7) I... tell you something yesterday, but I forgot

a) am going to b) wanted c) was going to

8) Tomorrow we'll have a meeting. What report...?

a) will you be doing

b) were you doing

c) do you do

9) I... two tickets for "The Marriage of Figaro".

a) just bought b) have just bought c) bought just

10) I... in Moscow before I moved to St. Petersburg.

a) had lived b) lived c) has been living

11) We... a lot by that time.

a) shall learn b) shall have learned c) have learned

12) I... English since last December

a) will be learning b) am learning c) have been learning

13) It... for three hours when I left home.

a) had been raining b) has rained c) rained

14) Alice said that her parents... in a week

a) will come back b) come back c) would come back

15) Lions.... to guard the Tower of London up 1781

a) have used b) were used c) are used

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