Complete the news stories with the active or passive form of the verbs from the box. Change
the tense as necessary. You may use some verbs
more than once.
announce
call discover
discover find
find kill
sell
start
A new service which will find anyone's mobile phone
number has been announced.
One thousand people (1) by a freak storm in
South Africa. The storm (2) in the early hours
of the morning.
Zac Efron (3) as the star of a new film, the
most expensive ever made.
A cure for cancer (4). Scientists (5) the
breakthrough at a conference yesterday.
The film director Richard Attenborough (6)
much of his art collection after claiming that there
was no more room on his walls.
Yesterday a three-year-old boy successfully (7)
an ambulance after he (8) that his mother had
fallen down the stairs.
A ring which once belonged to the opera singer
Maria Callas (9) in an attic. The new owner
(10) it online, with a reserve price of nearly
£100,000