Question

Put the verbs in brackets into the Past
Simple or Past Continuous.
1 Charles Lindberg
(work) as a pilot for the Chicago
St Louis airline company when
he
(make) the
first non-stop flight around the
world in 1927
2 Mahatma Gandhi .............. folie)
in 1948 after a terrorist
(shoot) him

Answer 1

1. Charles Lindberg worked as a pilot for the Chicago St. Louis airline company when he made the first non-stop flight around the world in 1927.

2. Mahatma Gandhi died in 1948 after a terrorist shooted him.

3. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident while he was working at St. Mary's Hospital in London.

4. After the painter, Degas went blind in the late 1890s, he gave up painting.