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TEFL exercises - Pre-intermediate materials - Passive
grammar
Use the passive forms to finish this quiz:
Example The first football world cup _______ in Uruguay in 1930.
The first football world cup was held in Uruguay in 1930.
was written
was invented
was painted
was opened
was sculpted
were held
was discovered
were discovered
1 The Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
2 The telephone in 1876 by Alexander Bell.
3 The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci in 1503.
4 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
5 The statue The Thinker by Auguste Rodin in 1880.
6 The first underground train in London in 1890.
7 The first modern-day Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.
8 Penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928.