ICFES Saber 11 practice on Tiempos y formas verbales and Vocabulario en contexto y colocaciones

Lea el texto y seleccione la palabra correcta para cada espacio.

Ejemplo

Completa el espacio en blanco.

John Snow ⁽⁰⁾ a famous doctor.

• A. is
• B. was
• C. are

La respuesta es: was

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John Snow

John Snow ⁽¹⁾ born in 1813 in York, England and was the eldest of nine children. When he ⁽²⁾ fourteen, he started working for a surgeon and went on to study medicine.

In 1855, a lot of people started dying in an area of London of the illness cholera and John Snow went there to study what was ⁽³⁾. He discovered that the people who had died were drinking ⁽⁴⁾ same water.

Before this study, no one ⁽⁵⁾ how people got the illness. The results of his study ⁽⁶⁾ important because they ⁽⁷⁾ how the illness spread and also ⁽⁸⁾ to start the science of public health. John Snow ⁽⁹⁾ very famous and ⁽¹⁰⁾ many other studies about this illness since then.

Lea el texto y seleccione la palabra correcta para cada espacio.

Ejemplo

Completa el espacio en blanco.

John Snow ⁽⁰⁾ a famous doctor.

• A. is
• B. was
• C. are

La respuesta es: was

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John Snow

John Snow ⁽¹⁾ born in 1813 in York, England and was the eldest of nine children. When he ⁽²⁾ fourteen, he started working for a surgeon and went on to study medicine.

In 1855, a lot of people started dying in an area of London of the illness cholera and John Snow went there to study what was ⁽³⁾. He discovered that the people who had died were drinking ⁽⁴⁾ same water.

Before this study, no one ⁽⁵⁾ how people got the illness. The results of his study ⁽⁶⁾ important because they ⁽⁷⁾ how the illness spread and also ⁽⁸⁾ to start the science of public health. John Snow ⁽⁹⁾ very famous and ⁽¹⁰⁾ many other studies about this illness since then.