Tobacco
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 549.
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Open the brackets to put the verbs into Past Simple Passive.
Open the brackets to put the verbs into Past Simple Passive. Then match column A with column B to make correct sentences.
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. America (discover) by | A. the French. |
| 2. London (found) by | B. the Russians. |
| 3. The Statue of Liberty (present) to Americans by | C. John Tolkien. |
| 4. President Lincoln (kill) by | D. Christopher Columbus. |
| 5. “Star Wars” (direct) by | E. Bill Gates and Paul Allen |
| 6. Walkman cassette players (develop) by | F. the Romans. |
| 7. “Sunflowers” (paint) by | G. an actor. |
| 8. “The Lord of Rings” (write) by | H. the Chinese. |
| 9. Paper (invent) by | I. Vincent van Gogh. |
| 10. Microsoft Corporation (start) by | J. George Lucas. |
Sugar cane (grow) in India thousands of years ago. In Roman times it (know) in Europe as a great luxury. In 1493 a sugar plant (take) by Columbus to the West Indies, where it grew so well that huge plantations (start) by Europeans. The plantations (work on) by slaves. The slaves (ship) across the Atlantic from Africa on a journey that took six weeks. The empty ships then carried the sugar back to Europe. So much money (make) that sugar (know) as “white gold”.
For thousands of years tobacco (use) by the American Indians. In the 16th century it (bring) to Europe. This early tobacco (mix) with soil. It (chew) or (smoke) in pipes only by men. It first (grow) commercially in America in the 17th century on plantations. In the 18th century the first cigarettes (produce). Until 1820 tobacco was America's main export. Nowadays smoking is banned in many places.
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