Here are some facts about famous Hollywood movies. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct passive form:
- 26,000 costumes __________ in the film Cleopatra, in 1963. (use)
- Before 1927, films used to __________ without sound. (make)
- Classic films, like Hitchcock's Rear Window, __________ by millions of people since they first came out. (see)
- Marilyn Monroe died while her last film, The Misfits, __________ . (shoot)
- After her death, some people thought that she __________ by the CIA. (murder)
- Nowadays many special effects __________ by computers. (create)
- At this moment, all over the world hundreds of films __________ . (made)
- In the mid-21st century many more films __________ on home videos and computers than in the cinema. (see)
ANSWERS:
1. were used
2. be made
3. have been seen
4. was being shot
5. had been murdered
6. are created
7. are being made
8. will be seen
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The Piano (won/was won) the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival in 1993. It (directed/was directed) by Jane Campion, and it (stars/is starred) Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel. It (set/is set) in New Zealand in the 19th century, and is about a Scottish woman, Ada, who (send/is sent) there by her parents to marry a local man. She only (brings/is brought) two things with her: her daughter, and her piano. Ada never (speaks/is spoken) and (has/is had) a very unhappy time until she (falls/is fallen) in love with a neighbour. Finally, she (rescues/is rescued) by him from her violent husband and, in her new life, she (learns/is learned) to speak again. The soundtrack (wrote/was written) by Michael Nyman, and millions of copies of the CD (have sold/have been sold) all over the world.
ANSWERS:
won - was directed - stars - is set - is sent - brings - speaks - has - falls - is rescued - learns - was written - have been sold
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from English File Upper-Intermediate - OUP
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