Exercise 5
The following sentences are taken from Journey Through History – A Modern
Course Book 1 published by Aristo Educational Press Limited.
Fill in the blanks with the simple present form of the verbs in brackets.
e.g. A baby is helpless and needs parental care. (be, need)
1. We __________ about the past from the writings of historians.
Historians
__________ a record of past events from primary sources and secondary sources.
(learn, make)
2. Hong Kong __________ to Hong Kong Island, the
Kowloon Peninsula and the
New Territories. It __________ in Guangdong province in south China. (refer, be)
3. Each walled village __________ an ancestral hall. The ancestral hall __________
the soul tablets of the clan’s founding ancestor. Clan members __________ their
ancestors, __________ celebrations and __________about clan affairs there.
(have, houses, worship, hold, talk)
4. Damiao __________ the oldest and largest of all
the Tianhou temples in Hong
Kong. Some 30000 worshippers __________ there on Tinahou’s birthday. At
Damiao, they __________ incense, and __________ fruit and roasted pigs to
Tianhou. (be, go, burn, offer)
5. Civilization __________ citizens
or persons living in a village, a town or a city.
Historians __________ this word to describe how people __________ in villages,
towns or cities. (mean, use, live)
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