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30.03.2020 13:45 •  Английский язык

Task I. Choose the best forms of the verbs to complete the sentences. Verb forms can be active and passive. Translate the sentences into Russian
1.The territory of Columbia become/became/ was becoming the city of Washington despite the protest of the great and modest American for whom it was named/has been named/ had been named.
2. The capital is named/was named/ has been named in honor of George Washington and Christopher Columbus.
3. In 1900 Washington celebrated/ was celebrated/ was celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the removal of the seat of Government to the District of Columbia.
4. Previously, the home of the president was known/had been known/ has been known as the “President’s Palace”.
5. The capital naturally attracts/ is attracted/ attracted thousands of visitors from every corner of the world.
6. Visitors permit/ are permitted/ are being permitted into the White House at certain times and under certain conditions established by the President in residence.
7. During the Revolutionary war seven different cities had been served/ had served / were served as the national capital
8. Hawaii said/ is said/is saying to be one of the world’s greatest “melting pots” of races.
9. The population of the West was made/ is made/ made/ up of descendants of the same Anglo-Saxon and foreign immigrant groups who moved as pioneers, first into the Midwest and later into the Great Plains area.
10. The South includes/ included/ was included those states which formed the Confederacy and fought against the North in the Civil War.
11.The principle products of the South, for many years, are/ have been/were cotton and tobacco.
12. New England is/ was/ had been one of the oldest sections of the United States.
13. Ministers from the great Puritan churches traveled/were travelling/had traveled widely and had/had had/were having a great influence upon religious thinking in the United States.
14. Farmers in the Great Plains often suffer/are suffering/ are suffered from the sudden storms that sweep across the wide plains.
15. When in 1789, George Washington became/ had become/ has become the first president of the United States, there has been/were/was no permanent capital in which to house the government.