Unit grammar check 1 Choose the correct answers.
Around the World in 80 Days
(1) ... this book by Jules Verne. It's about an
English man called Phileas Fogg and his French
servant Passepartout, who try to travel around the
world in 80 days. of course in those days aeroplanes
(2) ... and people (3) ... by train and ship. Phileas
and Passepartout set out from London and they
(4) ... through Egypt to India. But there they (5) ...
that the railway isn't finished, so they have to travel
by elephant. During their journey they rescue a
woman called Aouda from danger, and they (6) ...
lots of adventures together. Then they return to
England after 81 days. Phileas is disappointed! But in
the end he realizes that he's got the wrong date -
actually they (7)... the journey in 80 days. At the end
of the story, Phileas marries Aouda and they all live
happily ever after. Perhaps one day I'll (8) ... around
the world like Phileas Fogg.
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in
time
lons
1 a) just have read b) 've just read
2 a) not exist b) didn't exist
3 a) used travel b) used to travel
4 a) are travelling b) travel
5 a) discover b) are discovering
6 a) have
b) are having
7 a) are completing b) completed
8 a) travel
b) to travel
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