Giải bài tập sách bài tập (SBT) tiếng anh lớp 10 Friends Global 8B. Grammar Unit 8: Science

1.plete the sentences below with the present simple passive form of the verbs in brackets.

1   Millions of mobile phones _________________every year. (sell)

2   American football _________________very much in the UK. (not play)

3   _________________tablets _________________in your school? (use)

4   Most crimes _________________in big cities. mit)

5   Rubber trees _________________in cold countries. (not grow)

6   _________________Samsung televisions _________________ in Korea? (make)

2. Make the active sentences passive. Include the word by.

1   Millions of people watched the 2014 World Cup Final on TV.

     The 2014 World Cup Final was watched by millions of people on TV.

2   Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

     __________________________________

3   Rafa Nadal didn’t win the watch.

     __________________________________

4   Robots made that car.

    __________________________________

5   Did Suzanne Collins write the Hunger Games books?

     __________________________________

6   Peter Jackson directed the Hobbit films.

     __________________________________

3. Put the words below in the correct order. (Remember where to put the adverb.)

1   satnavs. / are / Phones / used as / sometimes.

     ___________________________________

2   Was / Bob Dylan? / Make you feel my love / first / by / sung

     ___________________________________

3   invented / The wheel / about 5,000 years ago. / probably / was

     ___________________________________

4   quickly / was / The suspect / arrested.

     ___________________________________

5   the missing jewelry / ever / found? / Was

     ___________________________________

4.plete the fact file below with the past simple passive form of the verbs in brackets.

• The firstputer (1)__________________ (invent) by Charles Babbage in the early 19th century. It (2)__________________ (not power) by electricity – it was mechanical.
• The first electronic digitalputer (3)_________________ (build) in 1943 in Britain. It (4)__________________ (call) ‘Colossus’ and it (5)__________________ (use) for decoding enemy messages in the war.
• Businesses began to useputers in the 1950s, butputers (6)__________________ (not sell) in shops until the early 1970s.
• The first desktopputers (7)__________________ (develop) in the late 1970s.
• Internet access via a modem (8)_________________ (add) in the 1990s, but wireless access (9)__________________ (not add) to mostputers until about 2000.
• For the first time, in 2015, more tablets and smartphones (10)__________________ (sell) than laptops and desktops. Willputers eventually disappear from our homes and schools?