Tests
A  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 the design.
a claimed      b reported      c were said      d were told
B   Identify the one underlined expression (A, B, C or D) that must be changed in order to correct these sentences.
1   When he said they weren't going to get engaged because they were getting married right away, I
A                                              B
assumed he wasn't alreadv got married, but I didn't know he had just got divorced that day. '        č                                                 D
2  No one died, but four people were injured and had to be taken to hospital after a small plane
A                                    B                             C
was crashed near Dublin last night. D
3  The main door couldn't be opened. It had been locked bv a special key that the caretaker
A                                         B
didn't have. He had been given a large set of keys, but none of them fitted the main door. C                       D
4  The sign said parking was prohibited, but my car wasn't left there more than five minutes while I
A                                  B
ran to pick up the shoes were repaired at Mendems, but I was given a parking ticket anyway. C                                           D
5  A new company has taken over the office which located next to yours and it's going to be
A                                        B
redecorated after it's been cleaned up a bit. C                                    D
C  Complete this 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 la hair of the 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
that 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 a hangover.
D   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_____________________________________________.
E   Choose one verb phrase from each pair to fill each space in the text.
a are feeding        c are being caused     e    being hit                g brought
b are being fed     d have caused           f    having hit               h  was brought
i died                  k frightened              m have driven             o to take
j was died            I   was frightened        n   have been driven      p to be taken
Thailand has a problem with unemployed elephants which (l)_________________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.