Name ______Class______
1.Rewrite the sentences in the Passive beginning with the words given. Leave out the doer of the action if not necessary.
0 The director has cancelled the meeting.
The meeting has been cancelled (by the director) .
1 Lawrence Ferlinghetii opened the oldest paperback book store in the United States in 1953.
The oldest paperback book store in the United States______.
2 The police are interviewing him in connection with the armed robbery.
He ______
______.
3 More than a billion people all over the world speak English.
English ______
______.
4 They will officially announce their engagement tomorrow.
Their engagement______
______.
5 Tom is not going to invite me to his party.
I ______
______.
6 Our physical education teacher can make a good basketball player of every pupil.
Every pupil ______
______.
2. Rewrite each sentence with must, can’t, might or might not so that it means the same as the sentence before.
0 I’m sure she is more mature than her sister-in-law.
She ___must be more mature than her sister-in-law___ .
1 It’s possible that my parents are enjoying themselves in Barcelona now.
My parents ______.
2 It’s quite probable that she didn’t make a good impression on his parents.
She ______.
3 Maybe they love their son more than they are able to show.
They ______.
4 I’m sure she is telling us the truth about the accident.
She ______.
5 I don’t believe you decided to quit your present job.
You ______.
6 I’m sure Barbara doesn’t have any idea about our reunion next month.
Barbara ______.
3.Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple, the Present Continuous or the Present Perfect.
0 We regularly ___meet___ (meet) to play the guitartogether.
1 I ______(visit) three natural history museumsso far.
2 We ______(move) to a bigger flat. Could youhelp us transport our furniture?
3 I can’t make a cake because Tom ______(forget) to buy eggs.
4 You shouldn’t wear this old-fashioned hat, you______(need) a new one.
5 The crime rate in New York ______(go down)in the past ten years.
6 Professor Brown is an expert on Greek philosophy.At the moment he ______(write) an article onthe life of Socrates.
7 It ______(not snow) here a lot at this time ofyear.
4.Complete the sentences with the correct form of the word in brackets.
0 You look miserable. Why are you _____unhappy_____? (HAPPY)
1 My leg was so bad I was ______to complete the journey. (ABLE)
2 She had three ______years as an oboe player. (SUCCESS)
3 There was a lot of ______after the old Queen died. (SAD)
4 Xavier did a wonderful ______of an old French poem. (TRANSLATE)
5 Where is your ______? On your left leg or your right? (INJURE)
6 The body in the snow was completely ______. (FREEZE)
7 Used cars might be quite old and not very ______. (EXPENSE)
8 I can’t play the piano at all but my brother plays very ______. (GOOD)
9 My test results were bad but his results were even ______. (BAD)