1. Jane insists on speaking to the managing director alone.
2. In the past year, there has been a marked decrease in the number of our client positive feedback.
3. Tash couldn’t take it in his head how to operate the machine correctly.
4. Would you have any objection to quoting from your report in the staff newsletter?
5. John was on the point of leaving when his university team scored a goal.
6. It was only when Anna had gone outside that she saw it was snowing.
7. To improve your overall health condition it’s well worth keeping out salty foods from your daily diet.
8. Because of her accent, the teacher had some difficulties to clearly express herself initially, but the students soon got adjusted to the way she spoke.
9. There is a bewilderment in the siblings’ relationship.
10. Rumour has it that Josh is on the verge of his resignation.
1. Choose the correct form of the verb.
1. Hundreds of burglars have been arrested over the past six months.
2. Yesterday five young men were arrested with connection with one of the attacks.
3. He was arrested on suspicion of murder.
4. The police chief says the murderer will be arrested by the weekend.
2. Choose the correct form of the verb.
1. Ten people have been interwiewed since last week.
2. The candidates are being interviewed at the moment.
3. You will be nterwiewed next week.
4. By the time I came all three people had been interviewed.
5. The musician will be interviewed immediately after the concert.
3. Choose the correct form of the verb.
1. The film was made in 2006.
2. The top of the table is made of glass.
3. Hundreds of employees have been made redundant since 2013.
4. Everyone hates being made a fool of.
4. Choose the correct form of the verb.
1. Ann can’t use the office at the moment. It is being redecorated.
2. The house is redecorated every year.
3. We couldn’t go to our favoutite restaurant because it was being redecorated
4. The house looks shabby. It should be redecorated
5. Choose the correct form of the verb.
1. I promise that the work will be done on time.
2. Something should be done before it is too late.
3. What can be done to help him?
4. As soon as the cake is done, remove it from the oven.
6. Choose the correct form of the verb (Active or Passive). Выберите
правильную форму глагола (в активном или страдательном залоге).
(1)Mount Everest and K2 (d) to be the two highest mountains in the world,
but they are very different.
(a)believe
(b)is believed
(c)believed
(d)are believed
(2)Everest (c) for the first time in 1953.
(a)is climbed
(b)climbed
(c)was climbed
(d)has been climbed
(3)Since 1953 thousands of people (a) on Everest.
(a)have stood
(b)stood
(c)are standing
(d)have been standing
(4)You don’t need to be a professional climber to climb Everest – everyyear many people
(b) to the top by guides.
(a)take
(b)are taken
(c)have taken
(d)have been taken
(5)In recent years the popularity of Everest (c) to cause problems.
(a)will begin
(b)was begun
(c)has begun3
(d)begins
(6)Since 1953 thousands of tons of rubbish (d) at the foot of Everest.
(a)left
(b)leave
(c)has left
(d)have been left
(7)K2, deep in the Himalayas, (d) until 1859, seven years after Everest.
(a)did not measure
(b)had not measured
(c)has not been measured
(d)was not measured
(8)K2 is said to be the most dangerous mountain in the world, and it (d) as
often as Everest has.
(a)doesn’t climb
(b)hasn’t climbing
(c)isn’t being climbed
(d)hasn’t been climbed
(9)Every year small numbers of mountaineers (d) to reach the top of K2, but
not many succeed.
(a)try
(b)have tried
(c)are tried
(d)are trying
(10)Some of the worst Himalayan accidents in the last twenty years (b) on K2,
and many lives have been lost.
(a)happen
(b)have happened
(c)will happen
(d)has happened
