Exercise 2: The passive (present and past simple) Complete the sentences with the present or past simple passive of the verb in brackets. Use contractions where possible. 1. How many newspapers (print) in Britain every day? 2. Who 3. 3. German (this play / write) by? (speak) in Germany, Austria, and part of Switzerland. 4. The royal wedding (watch) by millions of people in 2011 5. Nowadays, a lot of computers (make) in Korea. 6. The Harry Potter films 7. How much (not direct) by Steven Spielberg. (paper / recycle) in Poland each year? 8. In the UK, alcohol (not sell)to anyone under 18. It's against the law.
(2)One of his sea voyages ended with a shipwreck. Robinson found himself alone on a desert island.
(3)Robinson lived on the island for twenty-eight years. During those years, he built himself a house, learned how to fish and to grow plants. He also learned how to cook. At first he felt sad, but then he started to think that he lived a much better life here than he had done in Europe.
(4)He did not see any people for 15 years. Then, one day, he saw a footprint, and later saved a young man. Crusoe named him Friday, because he had found him on that day of the week. Friday was extremely grateful and became Robinson’s servant. He learned some English.
(5)For some years the two lived happily. Then, a ship came to the island. The ship was under pirates’ control. Crusoe saved the captain of the ship and his men from the pirates and they took him back to England.
(6)There Robinson found that in his absence he had become a wealthy man. Crusoe got married and had three children. Later, he visited his old island.