Question

5 Complete the text with the correct form of the
verbs in brackets. Use the past simple or the past
continuous Underline the chures in the sentences
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the house
Arthur C. Clarke ()
(be) a writer and inventor
He was born in Minehead
in England in 1917. In 1936
he (2) ... (move) to London.
While he (3)
(live) in
London, he (4)
(start)
writing science fiction. He
(5) ... (fight) in the Second
World War. He (6) (not
write) any stories while he
(1) ... (fight), but after he returned to London he wrote about
some of his experiences. A magazine (8) ... (publish) his first
story in 1946. He (9) ... (90) on to write more than seventy
books. Clarke also (10) ... (work) on a TV series about space
and on film scripts with the director Stanley Kubrik. While
he (11) ... (work) on the script for 2001: A Space Odyssey,
he (12) ... (have) an idea for a sequel, so he wrote that
too. Clarke (13) ... (not write) only science fiction, he also
(14) ... (write) non-fiction books and scientific papers. He
(15) ... (help) scientists and engineers in America to design
spaceships and a global satellite system. He (16) ... (win)
several scientific awards for his work. He died in 2008.
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Answer 1

Răspuns:

1. was

2. moved

3. was living

4. started

5. was fighting

6. didn't write

7. was fighting

8. published

9. i don't understand

10. worked

11. was working

12. had

13. didn't wrote

14. wrote

15. helped

16. won

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