1. My chief has promised me a four-day holiday. 2. She had written the answers to all the questions long before the end of the lesson. 3. They have always listened to these lectures with interest. 4. She has thrown away at this year's newspapers. 5. They have always laughed at his jokes.6. They have known this fact for years. 7. She said that they hadn't invited him. 8. He knew that some historian had described this period buthe didn't remember his name. 9. I wondered where they had hidden the key. 10. He wondered why they had posted the letter unstamped. 11. No one has lived in this house for the last hundred years. 12. He left two years ago and we haven't heard from him ever since. 13. Have they told him about the changes in the timetable?
Ex 28 Translate the following sentences, using the Passive Voice (perfect forms).
1. Колумб умер, не зная, что им был открыт новый континент. 2. Приглашение не было принято, так как оно было получено слишком поздно. 3. Было обсуждено только три вопроса, когда мы услышали звонок. 4. Эта комната всегда была предназначена (использовалась) для гостей. 5. Они заблудились потому, что им не показали дороги. 6. Ему всегда давали молоко перед сном. 7. Ее только что увезли в больницу. 8. Эти фильмы отличаются от тех, что нам показывали до сих пор.
II. Continuous Tense Forms
Ex 29 Study the following chart.
| A new road | is being | made | there now. |
| was being | there when I stayed. | ||
| in this town. |
Ex 30 Supply the missing part of the analytical form of the verb in the Passive Voice (see the chart above).
1. He could not do a thing when he knew he — being watched. 2. He didn't show much interest when earlier theories on the subject — being discussed. 3. Close the door please, little Jane — being washed. 4. The boys watched how the car was — cleaned. 5. His speech is — translated for the foreign guests. 6. What do you feel when your favourite record is being —?
Ex 31 Complete the following sentences using the Past Continuous Tense.
Model: When I came to this town three years ago, this bridge across the Volga was still being built.
1. I haven't been to the show but I was present when the best photos (choose). 2. When I left the Institute I didn't know yet the marks the students had got because their papers (look through). 3. When I was a worker at this factory this work still (do) by hand. 4. Just this very question (discuss) when I joined in the conversation. 5. He entered the hall in the dark and didn't understand at first what film (show). 6. She had the feeling that she (watch). 7. I wasn't surprised that he (listen to with such interest). He is a very good lecturer. 8. He was disturbed by the noise coming from the room next to his. He was sure that some experiments (make) there. 9. When she entered the class-room, the last student (examine).
Ex 32 Use the verbs in bold type in the Passive Voice. Make all necessary changes.
1. They are making a lot of new experiments in their laboratory now. 2. He was sure that somebody was following him. 3. Everybody is still laughing at his jokes. 4. We couldn't give him the daily program, we were still working it out. 5. Are they still painting tea cups by hand? 6. What are they selling in this little shop? 7. What happened? Why was a crowd of people pushing the car? 8. She felt they were looking at her.
Ex 33 Translate the following sentences, using the Passive Voice (continuous form).
1. Его слушали с таким интересом, что никто не заметил, как я вошел. 2. Что строится на той стороне реки? 3. Я долго не мог понять, почему над ним смеялись. 4. У него было такое чувство, что за ним кто-то идет. 5. Дети знали, что за ними наблюдают. 6. Что объясняли группе, когда вы присоединились к ним? 7. Не входите без приглашения, в зале обсуждается очень важный вопрос. 8. — Что там так обсуждают? — По-моему, вчерашний фильм. 9. Ему сказали, что музей закрыли неделю тому назад и что он будет открыт к юбилею писателя.
Mixed Bag
Ex 34 Open the brackets, using the correct form of the verb in the Passive Voice.
1. Robert Burns' poems (translate) into lots of languages and always (enjoy and sing) by the people all over the world. 2. In 1896, when gold (discover) in Alaska, Jack London moved there together with thousands of other men. His life in Alaska (describe) in many of his stories. 3. Cricket is England's oldest game and (play) before the Normans came in 1066. 4. They say golf (be born) in Denmark. 5. Golf (play) in the United States as early as 1779. 6. Do you know that tennis (play) more than a hundred years?
Ex 35 Open the brackets, using the correct tense form (active or passive). Retell the passage.
Until a few years ago, you (cannot enter) Nepal except on foot There (be) no roads into Nepal, and no airfields. Anyone who (want) to visit the country (walk) across the mountains, or (carry) by porters. All goods, too, (take) into the country in the same way, along narrow and difficult mountain paths. Sometimes they (lose) on the way.
After people and goods (carry) into and out of Nepal in this way for hundreds of years, the airplane (arrive). An airfield (build) near Katmandu, the capital of Nepal, where small planes (can land) when the weather (allow) it. Passengers and important goods (begin) (take) into and out of Nepal by air. Today, there (be) a regular air-service between Nepal and India, but, of course, heavy or very big goods (cannot put) in the small airplanes which alone (can use) the airfield near Katmandu; and the weather often (make) flying impossible.
Now a road (build) from India to Nepal. It (finish) a few years ago. It (cannot use) by trucks or big cars, but jeeps (can drive) along it if they (go) carefully. In the next few years, the road probably (make) wider and better.
Of course, this road (run) through very beautiful country a lot of which (cover) with thick forest. Great mountains and rushing rivers (cross) as the road (turn) its way up on to the "Roof of the World", as it (call).
(After "An Intermediate Refresher Course" by L A. Hill)
Ex 36 Rewrite (or retell) in narrative form.
A: Hello, John. What's the news? Has the new manager had a talk with the staff of the laboratory yet?
J: He had. If I am not mistaken, it was on Tuesday, but I'm not quite sure. Never mind.
A: What did he say?
J: He started by saying he knew how busy we all were, and he didn't want to take up much of our time.
A: Did he? I mean did he take up much of your time?
J: As a matter of fact, he did not.
A: What is he like as a manager?
J: Hard to say so far. He was frank enough to say that he needed our help and could get nowhere without the staff who had been working in the lab for so long.
A: That was really a frank and brave thing to say, I like that. Did you agree with all his plans?
J: We agreed with some and disagreed with others. What we like about the man is that he feels that great changes are needed and the whole organization of work in the lab wants bringing up to date.
(After "Real Politic" by A. Wilson)
The Article
(a) the use and omission of the article in close and loose apposition
Ex 37 Study the chart.
| close apposition | 1. Meet Professor Jones (Captain Smith, etc). 2. The writer (worker, student, composer, etc) Smirnov lives next door. |
| loose apposition | 1. Speak to Ivanov, head of the expedition. 2. Yesterday I met Pavlov, a student of group 3. |
