№3. Подготовка к ЕГЭ. Страдательный и действительный залог.

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Fill the gaps with a verb in the correct tense, active or passive.

CHAIRMAN OF THE SNOW BOARD

The sport of snowboarding is booming and the person responsible for this is Jake Burton. Burton, the antithesis of a hard-nosed businessman, is the president and founder of what is now a multimillion-dollar corporation.

“I have the best job in the world,” says Burton. “I 1                      my board           RIDE

several days a week, the company is making money, the sport is blossoming.”

Though Burton 2                                           the inventor of the snowboard,              CALL he 3                                              to take credit for anything more than improving           REFUSE on somebody else’s idea. He 4                     , instead, for the label                            SETTLE

‘snowboard pioneer’. The first snowboard-like object 5                                            PRODUCE by Sherman Poppen who, in 1965, 6                                          two skis together          BOLT

for his children to slide on. Poppen 7                                           his invention    CALL the Snurfer. Jake Burton 8                                  a Snurfer when he was 14 years           GIVE old. “I always 9                                                        feel there was an opportunity for FEEL

it to 10                                          better,” he says, “for serious technology to         MARKET 11                                           to it, so Snurfing could become a legitimate sport            APPLY instead of a cheap toy.” According to Jake’s father, although Jake

12                                any innate entrepreneurial spirit, once he had the idea          NOT   POSSESS

for this board in his head, he 13                          every bit of his energy into it.       PUT Jake Burton’s teenage years 14                                                 by tragedy: his older         MARK brother 15                                               in Vietnam when Burton was 12, and         KILL their mother 16                                               of leukemia five years later. “The loss       DIE

17                                  for two things,” says Burton, “real independence and         MAKE an ability to persevere.” Both 18                 into play in December                                            BRING 1977, when, shortly after he 19                                           a degree in economics               EARN and 20                                                              a small sum in his grandmother’s will,          LEAVE he 21                                                      Burton Snowboards. He was 23.                            FOUND ln the beginning Burton 22                  as a barman by night and                                      EMPLOY 23                                                         snowboard prototypes by day. After constructing               MAKE more than 100 models, he finally had a board he was pleased with. That

hurdle overcome, he had to 24                                   people to buy the things.          CONVINCE One major stumbling block was the fact that snowboards 25                                          BAN

at virtually all ski areas. Finally, after 1983, when restrictions at many ski

resorts 26                                         , snowboard sales climbed. Now 95% of          LOOSEN the ski areas in the US 27                                                 boarding, as do all ski areas          ALLOW in Europe. An international circuit of snowboard racing and freestyle events

28                                        in 1986, and the sport made its Olympic debut at         START the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.