Napi Angol Percek 2011. január 17. Elementary Today you are ...

Elementary
Napi Angol Percek 2011. január 17.
Today you are going to have a little test to check your knowledge of the Passive Voice.
Source: Oxford Practice Grammar Basic
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Look at this conversation. Make it more natural by using the passive form in all the sentences
with the word ’someone’.
Anne: Well, we watched this programme about moving to Spain, and we decided to go. Someone
has packed our bags. We’re ready to leave!
Celia: We wouldn’t leave England, would we, John? Someone decorated our house last month, It
looks beautiful. And someone is designing a summer house for the garden.
John: But someone also stole our car last week. Perhaps Spain is a good idea, after all.
Celia: Anyway, I hope you two know what you’re doing! Our neighbours went to France, and
when they go there, someone hadn’t built their new house! So they bought an old chateau
instead. After someone repaired the windows, and someone mended the roof, they got bored.
Mick: Well, someone has made our decision. Someone booked our flight yesterday. Someone is
selling our house next month. We’re on our way!
0. Our bags _____________________________.
1. Our house ____________________________.
2. And a summerhouse ____________________.
3. But our car ____________________________.
4. Their new house _______________________.
5. Their windows _________________________.
6. And the roof ___________________________.
7. Well, our decision ______________________.
8. Our flight _____________________________.
9. Our house ____________________________.
Rewrite the sentences in Passive voice.
1. Peter writes a letter.
2. They built a house.
3. Our uncle takes Susan to hospital.
4. We have cleaned the car.
5. They speak English.
6. The policemen help the children.
7. A robber broke the window of the shop.
8. My mother sends me to the butcher.
9. Peter will look after my little brother.

Intermediate
Napi Angol Percek 2011. január 17.
Today you are going to have a little test to check your knowledge of the Passive Voice.
Source: Oxford Practice Grammar Intermediate
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Rewrite these sentences beginning with the words in capitals.
0. Thieves robbed A WOMAN.
1. They may ban THE FILM.
2. They offered Nancy A PAY INCREASE.
3. We need to correct THE MISTAKES.
4. Someone reported that THE SITUATION was under control.
5. They are testing THE NEW DRUG.
6. We haven’t used THE MACHINE for ages.
Read the story and write the missing words. Use one word only in each space.
During periods of terrorist activity, people in Britain are always 0. _________ warned to look out
for bombs. Any bag or parcel without an owner 1. _________ seen as a risk to the public. Some
time ago a cardboard box was found at the entrance to Bristol Zoo one day. It was noticed 2.
__________ a visitor and reported to the director. Clearly, it was a bomb and went off, people
might 3. _______ killed. So army bomb experts 4. ________ called in, and the box was safely
blown up in a controlled explosion. Soon afterwards 5.________ was reported that the box had 6.
________ left there by a boy wanting to find a new home for his pet rat. He was tired of the rat,
he explained, but he was unwilling to 7.________ it put to sleep by a vet, so he left it in a box
outside the zoo. The director of the zoo is thought 8.___________ be unenthusiastic about
looking after people’s unwanted pets. No one knows what the rat thought about 9. _________
blown up.
Write a second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first. Use the words in brackets.
0. We have to test these products. (be)
1. Pavarotti sang the song. (by)
2. Nigel’s passport was stolen. (had)
3. They pay the doctors a lot of money. (are)
4. I hope they’ll interview me for the job. (to)
5. Someone was cleaning the floor. (being)
6. A mechanic is repairing Judy’s car. (having)
7. Tessa lost her way. (got)
8. Everyone agreed that the plan should go ahead. (it)
9. When did they decorate your kitchen? (get)
10. They say exercise is good for you. (be)
Each of these sentences is incorrect. Write the correct sentence.
0. Those nice glasses go broken.
1. The story was written Agatha Christie.
2. Baseball do play at this stadium.
3. The shirt needs iron.
4. I got cut my hair yesterday.
5. It believes that there is going to be a war.
6. My parents divorce themselves last year.
7. I’ve got a report to be written.
8. To the winner was given a prize.
9. This man on TV supposes to be the tallest person in the world.

Advanced
Napi Angol Percek 2011. január 17.
Today you are going to have a little test to check your knowledge of the Passive Voice.
Source: Oxford Practice Grammar Advanced
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Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.
1. We were told to put it where it was usually _____________.
a. belonged
b. fit
c. had
d. stored
2. It wasn’t the first time they had been _________ how it worked.
a. taught
b. reported
c. explained
d. described
3. DNA tests _____________ accepted in court cases.
a. are known
b. were used
c. have been
d. will have
4. Something ___________ happened or they would be here by now.
a. must
b. must be
c. must have
d. must have been
5. There _____________ to be serious flaws in design.
a. claimed
b. reported
c. were said
d. were told
Complete the text with appropriate passive forms of these verb phrases plus BY, if necessary.
BELIEVE / BITE / CONSIDER / CAN CURE / EXPERIENCE / RECOMMEND / MAY SAY
A hangover is the unpleasant physical feeling which 1.___________ the day after drinking too
much alcohol. The expression ‘a hair of a dog that bit you’ refers to another drink of alcohol that
you might have to help you recover from a hangover. In the past, it 2. ____________________
that, if you 3.__________ a mad dog, you 4. ____________ placing a hair from the dog on the
wound. This treatment 5. ___________ widely ___________ doctors up to the middle of the
eighteenth century, but it 6.__________ no longer _________ effective. The same
7.____________ about trying to use more alcohol as a cure for hangover.

Napi Angol Percek 2011. január 17.
Complete each sentence in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the
sentence above it.
1. They didn’t build Rome in a day. There’s a saying that Rome ______________________.
2. They have collected the tests and checked the answers. The tests __________________.
3. A bee sting is more likely to cause death these days than a snake bite. Death _________.
4. It was reported that there were serious problems with the new design. There __________.
5. No one gave us instructions or showed us what to do. We ________________________.
Choose one verb phrase from each pair to fill each space in the text.
a. are feeding / are being fed
b. are being caused / have caused
c. being hit / having hit
d. brought / was brought
e. died / was died
f. frightened / was frightened
g. have driven / have been driven
h. to take / to be taken
Thailand has a problem with unemployed elephants which 1.____________ on to the streets by
the country’s economic crisis and a loss of traditional employment. Many of them
2.______________ by tourists who like 3._____________ photographs of them. Major traffic
problems 4._____________ by homeless elephants wandering the streets. Traffic 5.________ to
a standstill one day by a raging bull elephant which 6._______________ by the sounds of
motorcycles and cars. Another elephant 7.____________ after 8.___________ by a car in
Bangkok last month.