EXERCISE-4
Read the following paragraphs and fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs given in the brackets
A serious accident ——– (take) place yesterday when a speeding bus———- (collide) with a car near Yamuna bridge. Two persons ———– (die) on the spot and one ———– (injure). The driver of the bus (run) away from there. The car ———– (crush) almost to pieces. The people———– (take) the injured to the hospital. The police also———- (reach) there.
Ans. took, collided, died, injured, ran, crushed, took, reached.
EXERCISE-5
Read the following paragraphs and fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs given in the brackets
One of the four thieves who———- (rob) a video shop owner last evening ———— (catch) when he ——- (try) to flee from the spot. According to the police all the four thieves———- (be) between 22-24 years of age. Two of them ———— (stay) outside to keep a watch while the remaining two ———- (enter) the shop. They———- (threaten) its owner and ————- (take) out the money from the box before running away.
Ans. robbed, was caught. was trying, were, stayed, entered, threatened, took.
EXERCISE-6
Read the following paragraphs and fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs given in the brackets
An earthquake, perhaps the strongest in history ———– (strike) Taiwan September last. It ——- (kill) around fifteen hundred people and ———— (destroy) hundreds of buildings. Thousands of people ——- (injure) or——— (find) missing. Almost a million people——— (become) homeless. The last major earth-quake———- (be) in 1935 when more than three thousand people———- (die)
Ans. struck, killed, destroyed, injured, found, became, was, died.
