Ex. 78 Complete the text with the verbs in brackets in the passive.

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Tae kwon do

Ex.77 Choose the correct verb forms to complete the text

This modern-day sport (I) was born / is born from an ancient martial art. Records show that it (2) was being practised / is being practised as early as 50 B.C. in Silla, one of three kingdoms in pre-Korean history. Because Silla (3) was always attacked / was always being attacked by Japanese pirates, an early form of the art was taught to soldiers. As a result, the Kingdom (4) had to be / could be protected. Schools (5) was founded / were founded to train these Hwarang or 'warriors'. They became travellers and taught their art to the ordinary people.

The martial art went through numerous changes over the next thousand plus years and almost disappeared during Japan's invasion of Korea from 1909 until 1945. However, after Korea's independence in 1945, new Kwans or martial arts schools (6) was opened /were opened. Ten years later, a group of Korean martial arts leaders gave this art one name, Tae Kwon Do. 'Tae' means kick; 'Kwon' means strike, and 'Do' means method or way. Tae Kwon Do, the 'art of kicking and striking', became the Korean martial art. The sport has a strict code and violence (7) was not allowed / is not allowed. In 1973, the World Tae kwondo Federation (8) has been established /was established and recognized by the Korean government.

Sport1

This sport (1)………(write) about in ancient Greek, Roman, Persian, Indian and Chinese history. It (2)………(practise) in Greece where it was mainly used to prepare young men to fight in wars, and it (3)………(include) in the Olympic Games in 688 BC. The men's hands (4)……..(cover) with leather bands to protect them at that time. The sport as we know it (5)………(revive) in 18th Century England and (6)………(practise) in its present form since the 1880s, with the two men in a small, square space and the audience seated all around them. Nowadays, it (7)………(also / promote) as a sport for women, both as participants and spectators.

Sport 2

This sport developed out of parachuting in the 1960s. At the time special holes (8)……..(cut) in a parachute to slow the fall and to allow the pilot to direct the parachute. Later, by changing the design, the parachute (9)………(pull) up into the air by a small plane. But one more development(10)………(need) - a square sail. Once this (11)………(develop), the sport was ready to take off. That happened in the French town of Mieussy where pilots managed to fly into the air by running down the hillsides of the Alps. Since then, this sport (12)………(be) very popular in Olu Deniz, in Turkey. As you read this, hundreds of these 'birds' (13)………..(fly) all over the world.