Writing Test 8th grade

Read the text. Choose the right answer.

From the History of Basketball
Basketball as a game appeared at the end of the nineteenth century.
It (1) __                [introduce, was introduced, introduced]  by James Naismith, a college coach during the winter of
1891–1892. He wanted (2) __          [to train, training, train]  his students between the end of the football
season and the beginning of the baseball season. He (3) __            [place, was placed, placed]  fruit
baskets on the walls at the opposite ends of the gymnasium and organized
(4) __           [nine-man, nine-men, nine-mens]  teams who played with a ball used for football. Each team
tried to throw the ball into the other (5) __        [team, teams, team’s]  basket and at the same time
(6) __       [tried, tryed, tryd]  to keep that team from throwing the ball into their basket. The
students had a lot of exercise, they moved a lot about the gymnasium,
jumped and ran. They liked the game and called (7) __        [it, its, itself]  basketball.
Nowadays the game itself is the same but there are (8) __      [much, many, no]  changes
in it. For example, now there (9) __      [is, are, were]  five players in a team. This game is
very popular in Europe, where it (10) __             [brought, had brought, was brought]  during World War I. It is interesting
that at first basketball was an indoor game, and in America
it (11) __           [plays, is played, play]  still indoors. But almost in all (12) __         [other, another, each]  countries it is an outdoor
game.

Read the text below. Complete the text with the correct forms of the words in brackets.

Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an international environmental organization. It (1) __ (to found)               in 1969 by a group of Canadian environmentalists.
Members of Greenpeace (2) __ (to appear)          in the places where the environment is endangered. They always act fast and (3) __ (brave)          . The whole world (4) __ (to know)         about the Greenpeace actions to stop hunting whales and killing baby seals. The activity of Greenpeace often (5) __ (to annoy)          governments, companies and people who (6) __ (not to care)              about the future of the world. Sometimes Greenpeace activity can (7) __ (to be)      quite dangerous. For example, in 1985, the Greenpeace ship, that was on its way to French Polynesia to protest against nuclear tests, (8) __ (to destroy)                 by French agents. It (9) __ (to create)          a serious international accident. Greenpeace (10) __ (to have)       offices in many (11) __ (country)             of the world. Greenpeace members are often referred to as “greens”. The “greens” (12) __ (to be)       groups of people whose aim is protection of natural things.

Доповніть речення правильною формою граматичних часів: Present Simple, Past Simple, Future Simple, Present Continuous.

My sister never ... (get) up at eight o'clock on Sundays.