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Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1.       Gold (discover) (a)   in California in 1848.

2.

The Amazon valley is extremely important to the ecology of the earth. Forty percent of the world’s oxygen (produce) ____ there.

a)

is produced

b)

produced

c)

is producing

3.

Right now Roberto is in the hospital. He (treat) ___ for a bad burn on his arm.

a)

is be treated

b)

is being treated

c)

is treating

d)

being treat

4.

In my country, certain prices, such as the price of medical supplies, (control) ____ by the government. Other prices (determine) ____ by how much consumers are willing to pay for a product.

a)

control/determine

b)

are controlled/are determined

c)

is controlled/are determined

d)

were controlled/were determined

5.

Richard Anderson is a former astronaut. Several years ago, when he was 52, Anderson (inform) ____ by his superior at an aircraft corporation that he could no longer be a test pilot. He (tell) ____ that he was being relieved of his duties because of his age. Anderson took the corporation to court for age discrimination.

a)

be informed/be told

b)

was informed/is told

c)

was informed/was told

d)

was inform/was tell

6.

Frostbite may occur when a person’s skin (expose) ____ to extreme cold. It most frequently (affect) ___ the skin of the cheeks, chin, ears, fingers, nose, and toes.

a)

is exposed/affects

b)

exposed/is affected

c)

expose/affect

d)

was exposed/affected

7.

Since the beginning of the modern industrial age, many of the natural habitats of plants and animals (destroy) (a)   by industrial development and pollution.

8.

Carl Gauss (recognize) (a)   as a mathematical genius when he was ten. One day a professor gave him an arithmetic problem.

9.

Carl (ask) (a)   to add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5, etc.).

10.

It (take) ____ him only eight seconds to solve the problem. How could he do it so quickly? Can you do it quickly?

(a)  

11.

Carl could do it quickly because he (know)__ that each pair of numbers (1 + 100, 2 + 99, 3 + 98, and so on to 50 + 51) equaled 101. So he (multiply;) ____ 50 times 101 and (come) _____ up with the answer: 5,050.

a)

knew/was multiplied/came

b)

knew/multiplied/come

c)

was known/multiply/come

d)

knew/multiplied/came