Question

Complete the text with the correct Passive form of the verbs in brackets.
One of the first newspapers.....(produce) during the times of Julius Caesar.The Acta Diurna(Events of the Day) was a newsletter which....(write) by hand and then put up in important places in Rome.
Newspapers...(print) since the beginning of the seventeenth century.
At first,they...(publish) in Northern Germany but soon the idea...(copy) in other countries.
The oldest daily newspaper in the UK which....(print) today is The Times.It....(publish)since 1785.
Today more than 18,000 different newspapers...(sell) around the world.

Answer 1

1. was produced
2.was written
3. are printed
4. were published
5. was copied
6. is printed
7. is published
8.are sold