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Olympics (Verb Form Quiz)

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  1. The Olympic games are ___ every four years.
    a. held
    b. hold

  2. People who ___ part in sports are called athletes.
    a. take
    b. took
    c. taken part

  3. The athletes who ___ the games are called competitors.
    a. enter
    b. entered

  4. In the 1998 Nagano Olympics there ___ over 3000 competitors taking part.
    a. is
    b. was
    c. were

  5. The Olympic flame was ___ to the games by relay.
    a. carry
    b. carried

  6. The athletes ___ in 68 different events.
    a. participating
    b. participated

  7. The winner is ___ a gold medal.
    a. give
    b. gave
    c. given

  8. The world champion ___ in first place.
    a. finish
    b. finished

  9. The snowboard competition ___ to be rescheduled because of bad weather.
    a. must
    b. had

  10. The downhill course was ___ to a higher part of the mountain.
    a. move
    b. moved

Copyright (C) 1998 by Letitia Bradley
This quiz is part of the HTML-Only Self-Study Quizzes which is part of Activities for ESL Students, a project by The Internet TESL Journal.