Fast track English skill building Exercise 8

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Convert the following Active sentences to Passive form.

1. Navy divers have recovered the helicopter’s Black Box.

2. The flight safety engineers will examine the Black Box very intently.

3. The U.S. aviation authorities will completely overhaul the air traffic control systems.

4. The mishap has taught valuable lessons to the aviation industry.

5. India’s finance minister will present the annual budget in the parliament today.

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Convert the following Passive sentences to Active form.

1. The wreckage of the ill-fated plane and the helicopter were salvaged by navy divers.

2. The man-eater’s carcass was spotted by the forest guards.

3. The collision of the goods train against a passenger train was averted by alert driver of the goods train.

4. The old, dilapidated building was razed to the ground by the bulldozer,

5. The rubble were carted away by tractors.

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Comprehension questions …

Read the following lines and answer the short questions given later.

A hiss and puff of compressed air shapes the smooth leather, bringing to life an all-American cowboy boot in a factory on China’s eastern coast.

Then comes another one as the assembly line continues, the sounds of sewing, stitching, cutting and soldering echoing off the high ceilings.

“We used to sell around a million pairs of boots a year,” says the 45-year-old sales manager, Mr Peng, who did not wish to reveal his first name.

That is, until Donald Trump came along.

A slew of tariffs in his first presidential term triggered a trade war between the world’s two largest economies. Six years on, Chinese businesses are bracing themselves for a sequel now that he is back in the White House.

“What direction should we take in the future?” Mr Peng asks, uncertain of what Trump 2.0 means for him, his colleagues – and China.

Questions ..

Q1. During President Trump’s first term in the White House (2017-21), what did the factory produce, and for which country?

Q2. How many pairs of shoes the factory has been producing each year during that time?

Q3. How President Trump disrupted the export of the boots to the U.S.?

Q4. How President Trump proposes to curb Chinese exports to America in his second term? How is Mr. Peng reacting to the threat of Trump’s actions now?

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