Question

6 Complete the text with the past simple, past continuous or past perfect form of the verbs below. be be become die get leave live meet not stop retire say work write Japan is the country with the most centenarians: over 50,000. It is also where Jiroemon Kimura, the man with the longest lifespan ever,....... Born in 1897, the year that Bram Stoker...........Dracula. Kimura.........School at fourteen and...... a job in a post office. While he...............There, he ............His future a postal worker for in 1962. But he a wife Yae. He............45 years when he.......In 1962 working! He 1o farmer! In an interview just before he 1 at the age of 116, he said he wasn't sure why he 12 so long. Maybe it's thanks to the sun, he 13 'I'm always looking up to the sky!

Answer 1

Answer:

Japan is the country with the most centenarians - over 50,000. It is also where Jiroemon Kimura, the man with the longest lifespan ever, was born in 1897, the year that Bram Stoker had written Dracula. Kimura  left school at fourteen and  got a job in a post office. While he  was working there, he  met his future wife, Yae. He had been a postal worker for 45 years when he retired  in 1962. But he did not stop working! He  became a farmer! In an interview just before he  died at the age of 116, he said he wasn't sure why he lived so long. 'Maybe it's thanks to the sun, 'he said, 'I'm always looking up to the sky!'

Explanation:

In the given passage, the speaker talks about a certain man named Jiroemon Kimura and his life. And throughout the whole passage, the verbs given in parenthesis will be either in the simple past, past perfect, or the past continuous form. The simple past is used to talk of past events, the past continuous to talk of past events that are continuing or happened at some point in the past, and the past perfect is used for actions that were completed at some specified point in the past.

The correct answers for the blanks are as below-

Japan is the country with the most centenarians - over 50,000. It is also where Jiroemon Kimura, the man with the longest lifespan ever, was born in 1897, the year that Bram Stoker had written Dracula. Kimura  left school at fourteen and  got a job in a post office. While he  was working there, he  met his future wife, Yae. He had been a postal worker for 45 years when he retired  in 1962. But he did not stop working! He  became a farmer! In an interview just before he  died at the age of 116, he said he wasn't sure why he lived so long. 'Maybe it's thanks to the sun, 'he said, 'I'm always looking up to the sky!'