Question

READING 8 complete the article with the past simple form of the verbs in the box. not stop spend start take travel wait Graham's BIG Adventure 5 It (1).................... Graham Hughes four years to visit all 201 countries in the world. And he did it all without taking a flight. He (2)............ by boat, bus and train, by taxi and on foot. He (3) ..............$100 a week on his journey He (4)........ ....... travelling on New Year's Day 2009. Travelling around Europe and South America was easy, but travelling around Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and getting to small islands in the Pacific and Atlantic, was difficult. He often (5)........ .......... for weeks for a boat. But Graham (6) ......., and on Monday the 26th of November 2012, the 1426th day of his journey, he arrived in the last country: South Sudan. Graham is the only person to see every country in the world without taking a flight​

Answer 1

1. took

2. went

3. spent

4. was

5. waited

6. continued