A report

This report has been produced at the request of the Hotel and Catering Association. The survey on which the report ⁽¹⁾ _________ was carried out between March 25 and March 30, 2002. Twenty hotel managers ⁽²⁾ _________ for the purposes of this report. The majority of the hotels which ⁽³⁾ __________ (all in the Brighton area) ⁽⁴⁾ __________ in the last twenty years and ⁽⁵⁾ __________ to meet the needs of the modern tourist. One hotel which ⁽⁶⁾ __________ unacceptable by the Association ⁽⁷⁾ __________ at the end of the tourist season. Some of the older ones ⁽⁸⁾ __________ recently and also meet the highest standards. This ⁽⁹⁾ __________ by the fact that all the hotels ⁽¹⁰⁾ __________ with modern facilities, from swimming pools to satellite TV. In addition, the usual services ⁽¹¹⁾ __________ (room service, laundry service) and the restaurant and bar service ⁽¹²⁾ __________ satisfactory in most cases. Most of the hotel staff who ⁽¹³⁾ __________ were highly qualified or experienced. Seventy-five per cent of the hotels in this report ⁽¹⁴⁾ __________ a three or four star rating by the tourist board.

Exercise 16. Complete this text using the correct passive form of one of the verbs below in each space. Use two of the verbs more than once.

refer use bring give invent

write call beat build

WHY DOES NOTHING EXIST?

Did nothing always exist or ⁽¹⁾ was it invented ? ‘Nothing’ is zero or nought (0). It is a very useful idea and it ⁽²⁾________ by many different names. In football, 0 ⁽³⁾_________ to as ‘nil’. So we say: ‘Liverpool ⁽⁴⁾________ two-nil (2-0) at home by Manchester United.’ When you ⁽⁵⁾_________ marks in a test, you hope you will never get ‘nought’ out of ten or twenty. When we talk about the temperature, ‘zero’ ⁽⁶⁾ ________ . We say: ‘It is freezing today; the temperature has dropped to five below zero.’ The most unusual name for 0 must be that which ⁽⁷⁾__________ in tennis, ‘love’; where the scoring goes 15-love, 30-love and so on. Not many people realize that 0 did not always exist but is some­thing that had ⁽⁸⁾_________ . Until the sixteenth century, the number system used in Europe was the Roman system, which was invented about two thousand years ago. The Roman system is not simple, for example the mark ‘X’ stands for ten and ‘C’ refers to a hundred. A much better number system ⁽⁹⁾_________ by the Hindus much earlier. The Hindu system ⁽¹⁰⁾_________ to Europe in AD 900 by the Arabs and is sometimes referred to as the ‘Arabic system’. This system ⁽¹¹⁾________ on a base of ten and all numbers ⁽¹²⁾_________ with the digits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 0. So as all schoolchildren know, 10 means ‘ten’ and 40 means ‘four times ten’.

Exercise 17. Correct the mistakes.

1. The dishes has been washed. 2. The letters are being opened every morning in the office. 3. Your homework must finished by Monday. 4. The woman seen taking the children to school. 5. Mike has been tell about the new job. 6. The cars stole from the car park. 7. The house is been redecorated recently. 8. The center will visit by the King next month.