Grammar and usage(2): Verbs often used in the passive voicePPT专用课堂实录内容

Unit3 The passive voice 课文重现

1 This presentation will give you some information about RealCine: how it works, why it is better than a film, and how it _______________________ (use) in other ways. 2. To achieve this, special VR headsets _______________ (design) to allow the users to see in 3-D and hear the sound all around them. 3. Both the headsets and the gloves ________________ (connect) to a computer network in the VR studio. 4. In scientific studies it ___________________ (show) that VR can be a good treatment for people who have social problems.

5. In one case, a teenager who was afraid of talking and playing with his schoolmates

________________ (treat) with VR. 6. An argument ____________________ (put forward) that some users _________________ (disappoint) by RealCine because VR is not real.

7. However, with VR we are able to do things that ______ never ______________

(achieve) in real life. 8. Besides this, VR ____________ (use) to practise skills in a secure environment that otherwise would be quite dangerous. 9. This kind of urban planning is in the long term cheaper and more practical, compared with the way most urban planning ___________________ (do) today. The active voice

The passive voice

do/does am/is/are doing has/have done be going to/will do did was/were doing had done modal verb + do Quiz I: Choose the best answer.

1. — So what is the procedure?

—All the applicants ________________________ (interview) before a final decision is made by the authority.

(2013北京) 2. We are confident that the environment ____________________ (improve) by our further efforts to reduce pollution.

(2013辽宁) 3. If nothing__________________ (do), the oceans will turn into fish deserts.

(2013湖南) 4. Shakespeare’s play Hamlet _____________________ (make) into at least ten different films over the past years. (2013北京)

5. Unless extra money __________________________ (find), the theatre will close. (2014大纲)

6. — Did you enjoy the party?

— Yes, we _____________________ (treat) by our hosts. (2015 北京) 7.

In my hometown, there is always a harvest supper for the farmers after all the wheat__________________

(cut).

(2015 重庆) 8. Despite the previous rounds of talks, no agreement __________________ (reach) so far by the two sides. (2015 天津) 9. More expressways ____________________ (build) in Sichuan soon to promote the local economy. (2015 四川) 10. To my delight, I ________________ (choose) from hundreds of applicants to attend the opening ceremony. (2015 福建) 11.It is reported that a space station ________________ (build) on the moon in years to come.

Quiz II:

Fill in the blanks with the right form of the words given.

1. I ______________ (give) a new book by my father on my birthday. 2. English _________________ (find) very useful. 3. The work ________________ (finish) tomorrow. 4. The flowers _________________ (water) by them now. 5. Many trees ___________________ (should plant) on the mountains.

6. The railway _________________ (build) this time last year. 7. The railway ______________ already _________________ (build). 8. The new railway ____________________ (build) by the end of last year. 9. He told me the sports meeting ___________________ (hold) the next month. 10. Rice _______________ (grow) in the south of the States. Quiz III:

Translation. 1. 禁止吸烟。____________________________ 2. The house ___________________________ (正在上油漆). 3. The flames __________________________________ (能看到) several miles away. 4. 昨天，乔治被选为班长而非亨利。

John _____________________________ president of the class instead of Harry yesterday.

5. 核能已被我们用来发电。

Nuclear energy _________________________________ _________ by us.

6. 到去年年底他们已建造了三艘船。

By last December three ships _______________________________________________.

Quiz IV: Complete this radio news report using the passive form of the verbs in brackets. Good afternoon. The lunch-time news today (1) ___________ (report) by John Howard. The Prime Minister has visited a primary school in Ipswich where he (2) _____________ (welcome) by the children and their teachers. He opened a new sports centre that (3) ____________ (build) with money raised by the parents and teachers. Half of the money (4) _______________ (spend) on building the playground. Another ￡20,000 (5) ________ (need) to finish the swimming pool so more money raising activities (6) _______________ (organize) in the following months.