Английский. Грамматика 19-24

Do you like tomatoes? Although people generally think of and use the tomato as a vegetable, in fact it (a)   (NOT BE) one. It's a fruit.

People in Central America (a)   (EAT) tomatoes for many thousands of years.

However, it was not until the Spanish (a)   (ARRIVE) in Mexico in the early 1500s that tomatoes came to Europe.

Before that, no one in Europe (a)   (EVER SEE) a tomato!

When tomatoes (a)   (ONE) appeared in Italy and Britain, many people were scared.

Tomatoes (a)   (THINK) by many people to be poisonous.

They refused to eat (a)   (THEY) and grew tomatoes only as plants for decoration. Since then, the tomato has become extremely popular. Can you imagine what food today would be like without it?

William Shakespeare is one of the best-known writers in the English language. He (a)    (WRITE) 38 plays, as well as hundreds of poems.

He was born in Stratford in 1564 and grew up there, (a)   (RECEIVE) an education in Latin at the local grammar school.

By 1590, he was living in London, although he (a)   (NOT PRODUCE) his most famous plays yet.