Question

Refresh your Grammar.
Open the brackets in Past Simple Tense.

Benjamin Franklin ___________ (be) a writer, a politician, a scientist, and many more.
Alexander Graham Bell ___________ (invent) the first fully functioning telephone.
By the eighteenth century, people ___________ (use) the umbrella against rain in most of Europe.
Ralph H. Baer ___________ (invent) the first home video game console known as Magnavox Odyssey.
Louis Pasteur ___________ (be) the first microbiologist, who ___________ (tell) the principles of vaccination and Alexander Fleming ___________ (discover) penicillin. They go together because they ___________ (be) both pioneers of modern medicine.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel ___________ (have) two notable inventions: explosive detonation of nitroglycerin and dynamite.

Answer 1

Ответ:

1. was

2.invented

3.used

4.invented

5.was

6.told

7.discovered

8.were

9.had

Answer 2

Benjamin Franklin  was  a writer, a politician, a scientist, and many more.

Alexander Graham Bell  invented  the first fully functioning telephone.

By the eighteenth century, people  used  the umbrella against rain in most of Europe.

Ralph H. Baer  invented  the first home video game console known as Magnavox Odyssey.

Louis Pasteur was  the first microbiologist, who  told  the principles of vaccination and Alexander Fleming  discovered  penicillin. They go together because they  were  both pioneers of modern medicine.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel  had  two notable inventions: explosive detonation of nitroglycerin and dynamite.