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The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.5 - Lookback for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Complete the sentences with the correct passive or active form of the verbs in the box.
  2. Match the events above with the dates in the box.

Answer

a)

  1. was discovered
  2. identified
  3. was built
  4. climbed
  5. was destroyed
  6. was released
  7. was assassinated
  8. was elected
  9. declared
  10. became

b)

  1. 1922 → The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt.
  2. 1984 → US and French scientists identified the AIDS virus.
  3. 1961 → A wall was built between East and West Germany.
  4. 1953 → Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Mount Everest.
  5. 1912 → The Titanic was destroyed after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic.
  6. 1990 → Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
  7. 1948 → Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by a terrorist.
  8. 1979 → Margaret Thatcher, the UK's first female prime minister, was elected.
  9. 1939 → The UK and France declared war on Germany.
  10. 1908 → Two-year-old PuYi became Emperor of China.

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