Complete the sentences with a form of the verb in parentheses.
Three hundred and fifty years ago, people (1. make) /made/ their own clothes. They (2. have, not) _____ machines for making clothes. There (3. be, not) _____ any clothing factories. People (4. tear) _____ homemade clothes that were sewn by hand.
Today, very few people (5. make) _____ their own clothes. Clothing (6. come) _____ ready-made from factories. People (7. buy) _____ almost all their clothes from stores.
The modern clothing industry (8. be) _____ international. As a result, people from different countries often (9. wear) _____ similar clothes. For example, people in many different countries throughout the world (10. wear) _____ jeans and t-shirts.
However, some regional differences in clothing still (11. exist) _____ for instance, people of the Arabian deserts (12. wear) _____ loose, flowing lobes to protect themselves from the heat of the sun. In parts of Northern Europe, fur hats (13. be) _____ common in the winter.
In the future, there (14. be, probably) _____ fewer and fewer differences in clothing. People throughout the world (15. wear) _____ clothes from the same factories. (16. We all, dress) _____ in the future? TV shows and movies about the future often (17. show) _____ everybody in a uniform of some kind. What (18. you, think) _____?
Number 7
Jawaban: buy
Soal ini meminta kita melengkapi kalimat rumpang dengan bentuk kata kerja yang tepat.
Kalimat yang ditanyakan menggunakan Simple Present Tense ditandai dengan keterangan waktu ‘today’ di awal paragraf.
Rumusnya:
(+) S + V1 (+s/es) + O
(-) S + do/does + not+ V1 + O
(?) Do/does + S + V1 + O?
Does dan V1 + s/es hanya digunakan untuk subjek he, she, it, dan singular.
Subjek kalimat adalah ‘people’ yang bersifat plural sehingga dipilih bentuk V1.
Kalimatnya menjadi:
People buy almost all their clothes from stores.
(Orang-orang membeli hampir semua pakaiannya dari toko.
Jadi, jawabannya: buy.
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