Make the following sentences passive: 1. They brought up their children according to old traditions.
2. The government provides single mothers with monthly payments.
3. They often practise corporal punishment in many countries
even nowadays. 4. Some parents beat their children. 5. Most
colleges and universities will offer jobs to their students. 6. They
are building a new child-care centre close by. 7. Many scientists
have characterized this community as oppressive. 8. He didn't
know that they had followed him all the way.
The 2000s were marked by significant economic growth in Asian countries, especially in China and India (by analogy with the previous "American century", the XXI century is considered the "Asian century"). Economic growth was accompanied by a rise in oil prices, which reached their all-time high in July 2008. At the same time, the crisis that began in the United States associated with an avalanche-like increase in loan defaults provoked a global recession in 2008.
After the unprecedented scale of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States, the American government declared the so-called. "War on terrorism", in which the wars began in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003). Conflicts continued in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the post-Soviet space. The disintegration of Yugoslavia is over. The expansion of NATO continued, in 2001 the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was established.
There was a widespread introduction of digital technologies: the development of the Internet and a significant increase in its role in society, the spread of mobile phones, digital cameras, the emergence of the Blu-ray format. Construction of the ISS continued. In 2001, the Mir orbital station was flooded. The geography of the "space club" expanded: in 2003, China launched its first cosmonaut into space, and in 2009, Iran launched its first satellite.
As indicated in 2014 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the 2000s were the warmest in the history of meteorological observations.
2) He gave her a glass of water and then she settled down.
3) My mum had been always making fried egg for me for the breakfast.
4) I took the folk and started to eat my lunch as fast as I could.
5) Marie can work with a knife very fast.
6) George, please, could you give me that spoon?
7) There was very disgusting food on the plate.
8) Look! There is yummy toast on a toast rack! (сорян, на большее фантазии не хватило:))
9) He knew that it is not pointless to add honey with tea when you take a cold.
10) Put these flowers to the vase, please.
11) I think you need a little bit salt to make this dish perfect.
12) She is in diet and eats cereal every morning instead of sandwiches with tea.
13) He was drinking an orange juice when he saw very beautiful woman he had ever seen.
14) They took the roll of wallpaper and set to work with a will.
Фуф, ну вот, написала:D