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Fill in The Gaps With The Appropriate Form of The Verb Given

This document provides a series of sentences with verbs missing that need to be filled in with the appropriate verb form. It includes three examples of short passages where the missing verbs have been provided and need to be written in the correct verb form based on the context of each sentence. The passages describe a cycling trip gone wrong due to bad weather, an unexpected discovery while touring the US, and two conversations - one between a dancer and writer and another between a director and author.

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Fill in The Gaps With The Appropriate Form of The Verb Given

This document provides a series of sentences with verbs missing that need to be filled in with the appropriate verb form. It includes three examples of short passages where the missing verbs have been provided and need to be written in the correct verb form based on the context of each sentence. The passages describe a cycling trip gone wrong due to bad weather, an unexpected discovery while touring the US, and two conversations - one between a dancer and writer and another between a director and author.

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Fill in the gaps with the appropriate form of the verb given

This time last year I ___________________ (cycle) in the rain along a country road in rance with a boyfriend of mine. We
_____________________ (decide) to go on a cycling holiday in Normandy. Neither of us _______________________ (be)
to France before, but we ___________________________ (know) some French from our time at school and we
__________________________ (manage) to brush up on the basics. Now we ___________________________ (wonder)
if we _____________________ (make) the right decision. We _____________________ (plan) our route carefully in
advance, but we ____________________ (forget) one important thing, the weather. It ________________________ (rain)
solidly since our arrival and that night we ________________________ (end) up sleeping in the waiting room at a railway
station. Then the newest morning as we _______________________ (ride) down a steep hill my bike
_______________________ (skid) on the wet road and I ____________________ (fall off). I ______________________
(realize) immediately that I ______________________ (break) my arm, and after a visit to the local hospital I
______________________ (catch) the next train to Calais for the ferry home. Unfortunately my parents
_________________________ (not expect) me home for a fortnight, and _______________________ (go) away on
holiday. So I ________________________ (spend) a miserable couple of weeks alone, reading 'Teach Yourself French'.
Write down the verbs in the correct form in each sentence
a)
An interesting thing happened to me when I was touring the USA recently. I 1) ________________ just ________________
(read) a spy novel where the hero 2) __________________________ (hide) the letter in a particular statue in Washington.
Since I was in that city at the time, on a whim I decided to see if the statue really contained the small nitch the author 3)
______________________ (describe). To my great surprise it did and a letter was inside.
After a moment's hesitation, I pulled out the letter and I opened it. As I 4) ________________________ (read) it, I burst out
laughing. An unidentified reader 5) _______________________ (write), 'Good book', wasn't it?
b)
One evening in the winter of 1902, the Irish writer, George Bernard Shaw, 1) __________________ (talk) to the beautiful
American dancer, Isadora Duncan.
Duncan, who 2) ________________________ (know) for her strong belief in eugenics, suggested that she and Shaw 3)
_______________________ (have) a baby together.
Think of it, she said. 'With your brains and my body, what a wonder it 4) _______________________ (be). Shaw 5)
________________________ (think) for a moment and replied. 'Yes, but what if it 6) ___________________________
(have) my body and your brains?

The famous film director, Alfred Hitchcock, telephoned prolific Belgian crime novelist, Georges Simenon. At the time,
Simenon 1) ______________ already _________________ (complete) nearly 400 novels. Hitchcock knew that he 2)
___________________________ (write) books at incredible speed, sometimes in as little as ten days. His wife took the
call.
'I'm sorry, she said' but George 3) _______________________ (write) and I can't disturb him.
That's OK, replied Hitchcock. 'Let him finish his book'. I 4) ___________________________
(hang on).

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