Question

> Complete the story with the correct form of the verbs in brackets ( Past simple,past contonuous si past perfect simple). Le notez pe numere. :>

It was a cool evening in September 1895. John Markham 1 .......... (had) a hard day at work, and he 2 ............(look forward to) getting home. Suddenly, a woman 3 .........(rush) out of the office next door. She 4...........(shake) with fright because she 5 ......... (hear) someone screming in the cellar. She was sure it was a ghost.
John 6 ...........(not bealive) in ghosts so he 7 ...........( go) into the building to investigate. It was very quiet. But just as he 8 .......... ( think) that is was all the woman's imagination, he 9 ....... (hear) screams.
" Who are you?What do you want?" cried John. The screaming 10 ........( not stop ) so he 11 ......... (hurry) towards the place where it 12 ....... (come from). He 13 ....... (reach) the door leading to cellar, 14 ......... ( take) a candle and 15 ......... ( go) down the cellar stairs. Suddenly, the door 16 .......... (slam) behind him, making a piece of paper fall from a shelf above hihis head.. He 17 .......... (examine) the piece of paper carefully. It was the death certificate of a fifteen-year-old girl called Alice Pick.She 18 .........( die) of starvation.
The next day, John 19 ........... ( tell) his neighbour about the evening's extraordinary events. Apparently, the building 20 ........... ( not always/be) an office. It 21 ........... (once belong) to a rich woman called Eva Tyndale who had shut Alice, her servant, in the cellar. One of the other servants told the police, but by the time they discovered Alice, she was dead and Mrs Tyndale 22 .......... (dissapear).

Answer 1

1)Had
2)looked forward to
3)rushed
4)shook
5)heard
6)didnt believe
7)went
8)thought
9)heard
10)didnt stop
11)hurried
12)came from
13)reached
14)took
15)went
16)slamed
17)examined
18)died
19)told
20)wasnt always 
21)once belonged
22)dissapeared
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