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Complete the sentences: The logo _______________ (design) fifty years ago.
was designed
Complete the sentences: Public transport _______________ (use) a lot in my country.
is used
Complete the sentences: About 400 million cups of coffee _______________ (drink) every day in the USA.
are drunk
Complete the sentences: The first Levi jeans _______________ (produce) in the 19th century.
were produced
Complete the sentences: New articles _______________ (write) for the website every month.
are written
Complete the sentences: Professional sports stars _______________ (recognized) all over the world.
are recognized
Rewrite the sentences in the passive: Jeff Bezos created Amazon in 2005.
Amazon was created by Jeff Bezos in 2005.
Rewrite the sentences in the passive: Over one billion viewers watched the final of the World Cup in 2014.
The final of the World Cup was watched by over one billion viewers in 2014.
Rewrite the sentences in the passive: Readers in the USA buy more books online than in shops.
More books are bought online by readers in the USA than in shops.
Rewrite the sentences in the passive: Up to four million people visit the Taj Mahal in India every year.
The Taj Mahal in India is visited by up to four million people every year.
Rewrite the sentences in the passive: Workers in large car factories make one thousand cars every day.
One thousand cars are made by workers in large car factories every day.
Complete the sentence: Six billion hours of YouTube video _________________ (watch) every month.
are watched
Complete the sentence: Four hundred hours of video _________________ (uploaded) every minute.
are uploaded
Complete the sentence: The first YouTube video _________________ (call) ‘Me at the zoo’. It _________________ (make) by Jawed Karim in 2005.
was called - was made
Complete the sentence: Ten years ago, the site _________________ (visit) by 20 million people per month. Today, the YouTube website _________________ (used) by 1.3 billion people per month.
was visited - is used
Complete the sentence: YouTube _________________ (sell) in 2006 and now it _________________ (own) by Google.
was sold - is owned
