Passive Voice 1

1. The results of the research ........ that, presently, several East Asian countries ......... rapidly.

2. Understandably, her friends ........... when Julia married someone else after being engaged to John for two years.

3. The facsimile ...... when the secretary returns from lunch.

4. Because James .......... to physical work, he .......... after he had spent a week on the farm.

5. Animals .......... to survive in the wild, rather than kept in captivity.

6. Films of violence ......... on television until after 9.30 at night, the time when the majority of children ........ to bed.

7. Normal climbing boots slip in icy conditions, so climbers .......... iron plates with spikes, known as crampons, to their boots.

8. Fragile, handle with care .......... on the package, but still the contents of the parcel .......... when it arrived.

9. An apple tree .......... fruit until it is five to eight years old.

10. The hill where Jane Austen set one of her romances .......... Box Hill because of the box trees which .........there.