Answer — Exercise 4
9.5 - Lookback·Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book
Domanda
- Complete the sentences with the correct passive or active form of the verbs in the box.
- Match the events above with the dates in the box.
Risposta
a)
- was discovered
- identified
- was built
- climbed
- was destroyed
- was released
- was assassinated
- was elected
- declared
- became
b)
- 1922 → The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt.
- 1984 → US and French scientists identified the AIDS virus.
- 1961 → A wall was built between East and West Germany.
- 1953 → Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Mount Everest.
- 1912 → The Titanic was destroyed after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic.
- 1990 → Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
- 1948 → Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by a terrorist.
- 1979 → Margaret Thatcher, the UK's first female prime minister, was elected.
- 1939 → The UK and France declared war on Germany.
- 1908 → Two-year-old PuYi became Emperor of China.