Active or Passive?

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From 'The History of Tea'

Tea ________________ (make) from the leaves of the tea plant. At first, it ______________ (use) as a medicine, but it ____________________ (become) an everyday drink in the third century A.D. First, the leaves _______________________ (pick) from the plant and they are spread onto a cloth. They ________________________ (leave) there for up to 20 hours. Next, the leaves are rolled up until they ___________________ (break) into small pieces. Finally, the leaves ________________ (dry). The tea _______________ (pack) into containers and sent to different countries. It ______________________ (sell) to customers as loose leaves, as teabags and as instant tea. To make tea, we __________________ (boil) water and __________________ (pour) it over the try to unity pots. This __________________ (leave) for 3 to 5 minutes. We can then add milk, lemon or sugar. In Britain, it was the custom to serve tea in the afternoons with sandwiches and cakes. This custom ______________________ (start) by the Duchess of Bethel around 1840. Today, people _________________________ (drink) tea all over the world.


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The Passive Voice

 Robin Bailey (worry) all the week. Last Tuesday he (receive) a letter from the local police. In the letter he (ask) to call at the station. Robin wondered why he (want) by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and now he (not worry) any more. At the station, he (tell) by a smiling policeman that his bicycle (find). Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle (pick) up in a small village four hundred miles away. It now (send) to his home by train. Robin (surprise) when he heard the news, because the bicycle (stole) twenty years ago when he was fifteen!

Criminal Caught Watching Wrong Channel

 A 28-year-old man (arrest) last night at the North London home, and later (charge) in connection with a series of burglaries in the area.
At the press conference this morning, Detective Inspector Richard Jevis, who (lead) the police investigation into the burglaries, (ex­plain) that details of the crimes (give) last night on the television pro­gramme "Crimestop". The Inspector (describe) how, after a witness' description of the burglar (give) on the show, dozen of people (tele­phone) the police, all identifying the same suspect.
The Inspector (go on) to say that a police (send) straight round to the man's house, where they (find) him watching television. Then he (asfe) why the man (not/try) to escape earlier when he (see) himself on "Crimestop". Detective Inspector (laugh) and (say), "He (not/ watch) "Crimestop"—he (watch) his favourite soap opera on the other channel."

Sorry, we meant you'll be dead broke

A British man who was told by doctors that he had only a short time to live and then quit his job, sold or gave away nearly all his possessions, stopped paying his mortgage and spent his life savings on a wild shopping spree, only to be told that he's not going to die after all, is threatening to sue because he's broke. Said John Brandick, 62: "When they tell you you've got a limited time and everything, you do enjoy life. I'm really pleased that I've got a second chance in life... but if you haven't got no money after all this, which is my fault -- I spent it all -- they should really pay something back." Brandick was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two years ago and told he didn't have long to live. A year later doctors informed him that his "tumor" was, in fact, a non-life-threatening inflammation.