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14. Revision

14.1* Complete the sentence with the past simple or present perfect form of the verb in brackets:

1. I (leave) left my bag on the train this morning.

2. Helen (complete) _______ the test half an hour before the end.

3. The match can't begin yet because the other team (not arrive) _______.

4. We (not play) _______ chess for ages. Do you feel like a game? 5. I (like) _______ their last album, but I’m not keen on the new one.

6. When (you go) _______ to the cinema last?

7. Sam (not take) _______ a day off since last April.

8. (you see) _______ my wallet? I’m sure I left it here on the desk.

9. When (you realize) _______ that you wanted to be a musician? 10. I (have) _______ an idea! Why don't we go skating tomorrow?

14.2* Complete the text with the past simple, past continuous or past perfect simple form of the verbs in brackets:

Mozart was born in 1756, the son of a professional musician. His father soon 1) (give up) gave up composing when he recognized his son's musical talent. By the age of three, the young Mozart 2) (learn) _______ to play several pieces of music. While he and his father 3) (travel) _______ round Europe, Mozart met many famous musicians and composers. Before he was 17, he 4) (compose) _______ several operas. While he 5) (visit) _______ the Vatican in Rome, he 6) (listen) _______ to a piece of music which, up to this point, the Vatican authorities 7) (keep) _______ secret. No one 8) (publish) _______ a copy of the piece before, but Mozart 9) (manage) _______ to write it down from memory after he 10) (listen) _______ to it once. By the age of 30 he 11) (become) _______ one of the most famous composers in Europe, and 12) (have) _______ a large apartment in Vienna, which is now a tourist attraction. It was here that he 13) (write) _______ his famous opera The Marriage of Figaro. In 1791, while he 14) (work) _______ on his Requiem, he 15) (fall) _______ ill and died at the age of 35.

14.3* Read the story of Archimedes and his bath. Then complete the text with the correct form of the verb in brackets (Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect):

Archimedes, the Greek mathematician, is probably most famous for the story of King Hieron II of Syracuse and the gold crown. The king 1) (want) wanted to give a gold crown as a gift to the gods, and 2) (give) _______ a carefully weighed amount of gold to a goldsmith. The man 3) (produce) _______ a beautiful crown, but the king was worried that the craftsman 4) (not use) _______ all the gold to make the crown. Dishonest craftsmen often 5) (mix) _______ gold with silver, which was cheaper, but the king could not find a way of proving that the man 6) (do) _______ this. He 7) (ask) _______ Archimedes to solve the problem. Archimedes 8) (know) _______ that gold and silver have different densities. The problem was that nobody could calculate the mass of an object like a crown. While Archimedes 9) (think) _______ about this problem, he decided to go to the public baths to relax. While he 10) (climb) _______ into the bath, he 11) (notice) _______ some water on the floor. It 12) (spill) _______ over the side of the bath, and he 13) (realize) _______ that he 14) (solve) _______ the problem by accident. The total amount of water that 15) (spill) _______ out of the bath must be the same as the volume of his body He could use a piece of pure gold and calculate its volume, and then test the crown and see if it was the same. According to the story, he 16) (jump) _______ straight out of the bath and 17) (run) _______ down the street calling 'Eureka – I’ve found it.' The goldsmith soon 18) (admit) _______ that he 19) (cheat) _______ the king, and was punished. Archimedes 20) (discover) _______ a principle of buoyancy.