Question

Read the story and put in the missing verbs from the box.
Became
Caught
Could
Decided
Drove
Explained
Found Gave
Got
Had finished
Had left
Hitchhiking
Know
Lost Make
Make sure
Met
Misread
Missed
Persuade
Put Reached
Set out
Slept
Understand
Welcomed
Were sent
Woke up
The Longest Day
This story happened a few years ago when British people could go on a day trip to France without a passport. It is about a Mrs and Mrs. Elham who went on a day trip to Boulogne.
When they _____________ their shopping, the couple _____________ for a walk to see the sights of the town. Unfortunately, they didn’t _____________ much French and couldn’t really _____________ the street signs, so they _____________ completely lost. The French people they _____________ were very kind and eventually they _____________ a lift to the railway station.
As the last ferry _____________, the Elhams _____________ to go to Paris and _____________ their way back to Dover from there. Unfortunately, they _____________ the wrong train and _____________ themselves the next morning – in Luxembourg! The local police _____________ (the confused passengers on a train for Paris and they _____________ most of the way – all too soundly in fact, for they _____________ their connection and _____________ in Basel in Switzerland!
The obliging Swiss police _____________ the couple directions back to Boulaogne but somehow the y_____________ their way again and ended up _____________ over sixty kilometers to Vesoul in central France. A long-distance lorry dirver gave the confused couple a lift to Paris, but when they _____________ the Gare du Nord, their troubles were not over.
‘We _____________ the signs,’ Mrs. Elham _____________ ‘and took the train to Bonn in Germany.’
From Germany the Elhams _____________ quickly back to France. At the border, a sympathetic gendarme decided to _____________ they got to Boulogne safely, so he _____________ them all the way there.
As they didn’t have passports, it took twenty-four hours to _____________ the Customs that their unreal story _____________ possibly be true. But at last they were allowed on a ferry and soon the familiar white cliffs of Dover _____________ the Elhams back to England.

Answer 1

use a translator, your homework is very long