Task 2. Insert the required tense in the Passive Voice.

1. "I don't want to hear another word. I __ never __ so __ in my whole life, (to insult) 2. But what shall I do if you __ ? (to kill) 3. Godfrey waited, before he spoke again, until the ale __ and the door __ (to bring, to close) 4. In whatever spare time he could find, he read the current research journals, trying to understand the implications of the experiments which __ throughout the world. (to perform) 5. Merriman, order the dog-cart at once. Mr. Ernest __ suddenly to town, (to call back) 6. Upon the Doctor and the widow the eyes of both Mr. Tuprnan and his companion __ for some time, when the stranger broke silence. (to fix) 7. In 1834, the Houses of Parliament, with the exception of Westminster Hall __ by fire. They __ by Sir Charles Barry. (to destroy, to rebuild) 8. "I'm afraid that we're going to have to move," he said. "This lab won't be big enough for us after all. But there's a double room on the eleventh floor that __ " (to use — negative) 9. Lanny noticed that he __ by three white men from the coffee stall on the other side of the road, (to watch) 10. It was past eleven o'clock — a late hour for the little village of Cobham — when Mr. Pickwick retired to the bedroom which __ for his reception, (to prepare) 11. We __. if we __, but never mind. (to scold, to see) 12. The Nobel Prize __ to him in 1924 when the advent of wave mechanics had revealed the importance of his work, ten years after his famous experiment __ . (to give, to perform) 13. The camp of peace will not allow the outbreak of a new war that __ by the imperialists. (to prepare) 14. I called ... to ask if a diamond brooch of mine __ (to find) 15. The tea-things __ scarcely ___ when the London coach deposited Mr. Weller, senior, at the door, (to put away) 16. Annette's most valuable stone was ruby, which __ to her when she was twelve by an Indian prince who was in love with her mother. (to give) 17. He [Jim] put down his pail... and bent over the toe with absorbing interest while the bandage __ (to unwind) 18. He carefully examined the contents of his case, and did not speak again until the beer __ and he had paid for it. (to bring) 19. The little patient — and __, and now lay composed in her crib. (to examine, to soothe)

Variant II Task 1. Insert the Past Indefinite, Past Continuous, Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous.

1. Then she found that the tears _ a _ quietly __ from her eyes. Perhaps they __ for a long time, (to flow, to flow) 2. One day of the new year she __ as usual at her window when Edward came prancing up the drive on horseback. (to sit) 3. He and I __ friends since our early twenties. At this time he was fifty-two, and already an elder statesman of science. (to be) 4. I __ out Honor's letter and __ it, and __ to the post. The fog __ When I __ I __ some biscuits and _ myself with whisky and hot milk, (to copy, to seal, to go, to clear, to return, to eat, to dose) 5. He told me that an American Signore __ there for three months, (to stay) 6. She [Aileen] stole downstairs and out into the vestibule, opening the outer door and looking out into the street. The lamps __ already __ in the dark, and a cool wind __ (to flare, to blow) 7. It was true that we __ one another almost intimately for five and twenty years. (to know) 8. I __ hardly __ more than the first three chapters when my attention was diverted by a conversation going on in the front of the store, (to read 9. She __ mortally with my husband only ten minutes ago. (to quarrel) 10. He __ scarcely __ outside the dooj when he heard Wardle's voice talking loudly, (to get) 11. The next day he __ some honeysuckle against the porch, when he heard the Miller's voice calling to him from the road, (to nail up) 12. Roddy __ rapidly and nervously up and down the room for a minute or two. (to walk) 13. I knew right away that there was the place I __ all my life. (to look for) 14. Half-past eleven. He [the Gadfly] __ still __ though the hand was stiff and swollen. (to file) 15. A few seconds after the stranger __ to lead Mrs. Budger to her carriage, he darted swiftly from the room, (to disappear) 16. At nine o'clock that evening a long black Packard roadster drew up to her door, and Arnie stepped out of the front seat where he __ with the driver and a girl between them, (to sit) 17. I do not stop to say what adventures he began to imagine, or what career to devise for himself before he __ three miles from home, (to ride) 18. Mrs. Banty put down the telephone receiver. She __ up twice and each time the answer __ the same: Mrs. Marple was out. (to ring, to be) 19. The sun __ a long way up and it __ to get really hot. (to move, to begin) 20. He was in the extremity of indecision and very wounded by Rosa's refusal to help him. She __ even __ him for the last few days, (to avoid) 21. The light in his flat showed that Mrs. Simpson __ in for him. (to wait) 22. I called on Mrs. Strickland before I left. I __ her for some time, and I noticed changes in her; it was not only that she __ older, thinner, and more lined; I think her character __. (to see — negative, to be, to alter) 23. He __ since nine that morning and his stomach __ with hunger, (to eat — negative, to growl) 24. They __ no sooner __ at this point than a most violent and startling knocking was heard at the door, (to arrive) 25. The old lady was dressed out in a brocaded gown which __ the light for twerity years, (to see — negative) 26. Very often, afterwards, in the midst of their talk, he would break off, to try to understand what it was the waves __ always __ (to say) 27. The women and children and old men __ Now he was alone with his mother in the little two-roomed shack, (to go) 28. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It __ beating, (to stop) 29. After he __ there some time, he sold the sack of flour for a very good price, (to wait) 30. Mr. Moore now __ silent for several minutes, (to sit) 31. I think he showed me about thirty canvases. It was the result of the six years during which he __. (to paint)