Cover of the textbook New Total English Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.1 - Fast world for the textbook New Total English Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Complete the Active grammar box with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
  2. Find four more examples of the Present Simple Passive in the text from exercise 4.

Answer

a)

  1. spend
  2. are eaten

b)

  • ... a huge amount of fast food is consumed every day ... .
  • ... 200 million text messages are sent each day ... .
  • ... nearly two hours are spent dealing with email ... .
  • Email isn’t switched off at home ... .