Read the texts and answer the questions about them.
Indian drummers
Shillong 1) __________ north east India 2)
__________ the world record yesterday for the largest number of people 3)
__________ the drums together. People travelled 4) __________ long
way, many 5) __________ foot, from villages in the state in order 6)
__________ in.
A total of 7,951 people played the drums at 7)
__________ same time, over seven hundred more than the old record.
The state now 8) __________ two world
records - it is the wettest place in the world as well.
Questions
1. a. in b. on c. at
2. a. breaks b.
broke c. broken
3. a. play b.
plays c. playing
4. a. a b.
an c. the
5. a. by b.on c. in
6. a. join b.
to join c. joining
7. a. the b.
a c. as
8. a. hold b.
holds c. holding
John Snow
John Snow 1) __________ born in 1813 in York, England and was
the eldest of nine children. When he2)
__________ fourteen,
he started working for a surgeon and went on to study medicine.
In 1855, a lot of people started dying in an area of London of the
illness cholera and John Snow went there to study what was 3) __________. He discovered that
the people who had died were drinking 4) __________ same water.
Before this study, no one 5) __________ how people got the illness. The
results of his study 6) __________ important because they 7) __________ how the illness spread and also 8) __________ to start the science of public health.
Questions
1. a. is b. was c. had
2. a. has b. had c. was
3. a. happen b. happened c. happening
4. a. a b. as c. the
5. a. knew b. was knowing c. knowing
6. a. is b. was c. were
7. a. explaining b.
explained c. to explain
8. a. help b.
helping c. helped
