Задание

Fill in the table.

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In 1854 an Act of Parliament ___________ approving the construction of an underground railway between Paddington Station and Farringdon Street. PASS
It was to be called the Metropolitan Railway and it ___________ on 10 January 1863. OPEN
Within a few months of opening it ____________ over 26,000 passengers a day. CARRY
Over the next few years more and more underground train lines ___________ . CONSTRUCT
The Hammersmith and City Railway __________ on 13 June 1864 between Hammersmith and Paddington and on 24 December 1868, the Metropolitan District Railway ____________ operating services between South Kensington and Westminster. OPEN

BEGIN
In 1890 the first electric trains ___________. Before this, all trains were steam powered. INTRODUCE
Can you imagine how hot and dirty it _____________in the cabs of steam locomotives? BE
The nickname ‘the Tube’ ___________ from the circular tube-like tunnels and platforms through which the trains travel. COME
The oldest part of today's Underground network is the Central line between Layton and Loughton, which __________ as a railway seven years before the Underground itself. OPEN