Fourteenth Week

PASSIVE VS ACTIVE VOICE PRACTICE

Complete the space using correct form of the verb in parenthesis (passive or active voice)

Special security measures 1.  Were introduced (introduce) by the UK Passport Service to help facial recognition scanners to function properly. Tinted glasses, head coverings and even dummies in babies’ mouths 2.   Were banned ………  (ban). The new passport fitted a microchip  containing all information about its holders. But only a neutral expression 3. Was detected .... (detect) by the scanning machines. Existing passport pictures which 4. …met ……… (meet) the rules were accepted until the document expires.

A British skipper Stephen Roy, 45, 5.  Was found…………(find)  with his hands tied behind

the back, alone on the deck of his yacht as it drifts 100 miles off the French coast. On Friday

morning, French authorities 6. were informed……….(informe) by a Canadian vessel and immediately 7 …sent……. (send) an helicopter and a rescue boat to look for him but he 8.  …was……(be) in a pretty bad way physically with dehydration and psychologically it seems as if he wasn’t at all well. Mr Roy 9. …   was taken…… (take) to the hospital and only after he  10. …… was released……… (release), he 11… answered………(answer) police questions .

Two of the world’s most important terror suspects were seized yesterday. One was said to be a senior al Qaeda operative while the other 12…was accused…… (Accuse) of being a major fundraiser for terrorism around the world. Ali Abu Abec ………… arrested in Willesden yesterday: US intelligence 13. believe…………..(believe) they are trusted aides of Osama bin Laden and to have plotted to blow up Jewish target and financial institutions. The other man, Mohammed Ali Khan, 30, who 14 lived……. (live) in Chelsea: he 15…was acused……. (Accuse) of using websites and emails to supply money and property for acts of terrorism.

The investigation into the Lord Luncan murder case 16 …was respened……….. (reopen) – nearly 30 years after he  17…dissapeared………(disappear). Already existing police evidence 18…  was examined…………… (examine) by detectives who 19…have announced…………. (announce) that DNA profiling was also  used to try to solve the case. The 7th Earl of Luncan vanished in November 1974, a day after the murdered body of his children’s nanny Sandra Rivett 20…was found……….. (find) at his London home.

A second major seizure of cocaine 21……was made……………… (make) by Custom officers in a week  from a ship at Dover cargo port. Three plastics bags containing 3kg of the Class A drug worth around £1.6m 22…was found………………… (find) in the hold of a ship. Officers seized the Liberian-registered Horncliff when it 23…arrived……….(arrive) in Kent from Colombia on Wednesday. No arrest  24……was yet made…………………(yet make).