Complete the text with the verbs in the correct form. Quiet Revolution
When you …… (read) this article, somewhere in the United States two couples will get married and another two ……(get divorced). One of three American children now ……(live) with only one parent, and the United States ……(not/be) alone here: in Canada and France the divorce rate …… (double) in the last twenty-five years. Even in Japan, where the traditional family …… (be) still strong, divorce rate. …… (go) up by 15 per cent between 1985 and 2000.
What is more, the nature of the family ……(change). In Sweden and Denmark, around half of all babies now …… (be born) to unmarried parents, and in the United Kingdom and France more than a third. Although Ireland ……(be) strongly Catholic, quite a lot of Irish people now …… (have) children without getting married. Families ……. (get) smaller. The average Turkish family ……… (have) seven members in 1980; today it ……(have) only five. And in Spain and Italy, where families …… (be) always traditionally large, the birthrate was the lowest in the developed world in 1999.
This fall in the birthrate …… (be) due in part to the fact that more and more women prefer careers and are waiting longer and longer to start a family. The age at which the average woman. ……. (have ) her first baby is now 28 in Western Europe, and it …… (get) later.
friend had thought that she wouldn't be all to get to the
airport in time but she turned up while Kate was saying
goodbye to her parents. She finally went trough pass.
port control and everybody waved goodbye.
2. It was the day of his English exam. He woke up
and looked at his alarm clock. He saw that it to
stop during the night. He realised he would be late
for his exam. He was ever an hour late and exam
already begin. When he was sitting at the table, he found that he had left his pen at home. He asked his
friend to give him a pen. Despite everything going
wrong he passed him exam.
3. Yesterday I read a story. It was a story about a
novelist who wrote a novel that was a great suc-
cess. Once he met his friend that he had not seen
for many years. After they were talking for some hours,
the novelist said:
"We have already talked about
me. Now, let's talk about you. Did you think
about last novel when you read it?"
7. This question will be discussed by us in our office.
8. Many trees were planted by pupils near school.
9. A dinner will be served by her at two o'clock.
10. A cup was broken by my little sister.
11. The dishes are washed by us everyday.
12. The t e l e g r a m will be sent by our grandmother.
13. This medicine was preascribed me by my doctor.
14. The way to her house was shown me by man.
15. The tickes was booked by my brother.
16. This text will be translated by me in the morning.
17. An interesting article was written by Jane.
18. The patients was examined by doctor everyday.
19. The bridge will be built next month.
20. The city was attacked by enemies.