Exercise 3
The following sentences are taken from Living Geography Book 1A published by
Addison Wesley Longman China Limited.
Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
e.g. Large shopping areas are usually found in the commercial centre of a city. (find)
1. Whole circle bearing ____________________ from the north in a clockwise
direction. (measure)
2. Rural areas ____________________
mainly in the New Territories, the outlying
islands and the middle and south-eastern parts of Hong Kong Island. The land
___________________ by trees, grasses, farmland and fish ponds. (find, cover)
3. The old buildings ______then ______________ down
and the small pieces of
land ____________________ together to form a larger piece. Streets
__________________ wider, new facilities like drain pipes ________________,
and new buildings of different uses _____ then _______________. The land uses
_____ carefully _______________ to avoid the problem of land use conflict. (pull,
group, make, build, construct, plan)
4.
On many maps, the column and the rows of squares ___________________by
letter and number respectively. (name)
5. Government and community land use means those places where services
__________________ to the public. (provide)
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Answers
Exercise 3
1. are measured
2. are found,
is covered
3. are then pulled down, are grouped, are made,
are built, are then construct, are
carefully planned
4. are named
6.
are provided
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