I told John not to drive because he _____ all night.
(drink)
Why did you change the channel? I ______ that movie. (watch)
When I _____ out of the shower, the lights _____. (get, go out)
When I saw Clara, I realised that she ______ much in all those years. (not change)
When he entered the room, somebody _____ him in the head. (hit)
He admitted that he ______ all the money from the box. (take)
The burglar _____ to open the safe when he _____ the owner come in. (try, see)
I knew he _____ because his eyes were red. (cry)
The plane in which the football team _____ crashed and none of them survived. (travel)
We _____ for about 20 minutes when the plane was hit by turbulence. (fly)
Many years ago, I 1 to spend New Year's Eve with my family.
I2 new year with my parents but I had nowhere to go, and being
with my family seemed preferable to being on my own.
When my parents 3 the door I could see they 4 , and that
they were genuinely happy to see me. I 5 addicted to alcohol for 10 years, and for
them, seeing me was the confirmation that I wasn't dead in an alley. Unfortunately,
I6 nothing new or exciting to tell them, just the same sad old stories.
I7 from crappy job to crappy job, being invariably sacked, and
I8 to crime whenever I was out of money. Same old, same old.
During dinner, I 9 a few glassfuls of whisky. I 10 something
to ease the pain, because for the whole evening my sisters 11 at me with
such contempt that it was unbearable. My own sisters 12 me. Then I had a
moment of realisation; I 13 that they would never hate me as much as I hated
myself.
When we finished dinner I 14 one last glass of whisky. "I'm going into rehab," I
said. My parents 15 at me with some kind of hope. Parents never lose hope.
But my sisters just 16 down with disdain. They 17
perfectly well that I had been in rehab centres many times before, and that this time wouldn't be
different.
But this time, it was different. After that day, I 18 that look in my sisters' eyes
every day, every time I 19 to drink. Ten years later, on a New Year's Eve, I
thanked my sisters because they 20 my life. They kissed me with their new
look in their eyes, the look of love.
We thought that we were on the right path when suddenly we 1 (run into) a very familiar
rock and 2 (realise) that we 3 (walk) in circles for quite a long time.
We 4 (be) totally lost, and the fact that we 5 (already/finish) our water
provisions wasn't very promising.
We 6 (decide) to go uphill because according to John, it would be easier to spot a way
out from an elevated point. He 7 (learn) that from a documentary he 8
(see) about survival. But what the documentary 9 (not teach) John was that maybe it’s
not such a good idea to go up a mountain when you are exhausted and waterless.
We 10 (trek) one mile when we 11 (start) to have a horrible feeling that that
might be our last trek. Of course, we 12 (say) anything, but we could see in each other’s
eyes that at that precise moment we 13 (think) precisely the same. We couldn't walk any
longer, so we 14 (decide) to sit and rest, quietly, because neither of us wanted to share
any of our gloomy thoughts.
"Hello, can I help you?" we suddenly 15 (hear). We 16 (raise) our heads
and 17 (see) a little man with slanted eyes and a childish grin. He 18
(stand) right next to us. I wondered where he 19 (come) from and how long
he 20 (stand) there. But it didn't matter really, because we were safe.
