II. Practice.
Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or the Past Progressive of the verbs in brackets.
Yesterday morning, there (1) _______ (be) an attempt robbery at a computer shop. Two men who (2) _______ (wear) gorilla masks (3) _________ (run) into the shop, (4) ________ (pull) out their guns and (5) ________ (ask) for all the money in the till. At first, staff (6) _________ (think) the robbers (7) _______ (play) a joke on them as it was April Fool’s Day, and one of the shop assistants even (8) ________ (offer) the robbers a banana. However, the robbers (9) ________ (get) angry and (10) _______ (fire) their guns into the air. It (11) ________ (become) apparent that this was no joke, so the shop assistants (12) _________ (give) the robbers all the money in the till. However, when the robbers (13) _________ (fire) their guns into the air, the alarm (14) _________ (go off) and police (15) ______ (arrive) at the scene in no time. As the robbers (16) ________ (leave) the shop, they (17) __________ (notice) that the shop was surrounded by police cars. They (18) __________ (have) no choice but to surrender.
Answers:
1 was
2 were wearing
3 ran
4 pulled
5 asked
6 thought
7 were playing
8 offered
9 got
10 fired
11 became
12 gave
13 fired
14 went off
15 arrived
16 were leaving
17 noticed
18 had
Complete the sentences with the words given.
Many states in the USA have _________ smoking in all public buildings.
forbidden
=banned
avoided
prevented
There are many ways that you can __________ forest fires.
forbid
ban
avoid
=prevent
The criminal wanted to __________ serving his jail sentence, so he left the country.
forbid
ban
=avoid
prevent
I _________ you to leave the room, young lady!
=forbid
ban
avoid
prevent
The campers were ___________ for setting fire to the forest.
=blamed
accused
convicted
charged
Sandy ________ her boss of stealing money from the company.
blamed
=accused
convicted
charged
The police have enough evidence to ___________ his with forgery.
blamed
accused
convicted
=charged
He was _________ of blackmail and spent many years in prison.
blamed
accused
=convicted
charged
The Smith’s home was __________ last night.
stole
=burgled
robbed
sentenced
Someone opened my briefcase and __________ my papers.
=stole
burgled
robbed
sentenced
Read the passage below. Decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap and click on your answer.
Faces
Despite our complex language skills, the face is still our primary means of communication. It is (1)_______ because our faces are so complex in appearance, that we can easily (2)_______ a friend in a crowd or attempt to check the trustworthiness of a stranger. (3)_______, our ability to recognise faces quickly, in all sorts of circumstances, is arguably our most important and remarkable visual skill. Thanks to its very elastic skin, animated by a complex musculature capable of an enormous range of (4)_______ movements, the human face can quickly display a whole (5)_______ of contrasting emotions. As a result of evolution, we can read faces, making judgements about them (6)_______ on our experience, without effort and without anything being said.
1 ________
A pointedly
B singularly