Lost, alone and injured on a mountain
Complete
this text using the past simple form of these verbs:
fall find break laugh
spend leave lose need
take celebrate save can’t
Gary Smith yesterday 1 celebrated his twentieth birthday, but he’s lucky to be alive. In March this year he was
climbing Ben Nevis, Britain’s highest mountain, when he 2 his way and 3
sixteen hours in sub-zero temperatures.
‘My friends 4 at
me for having so much survival equipment, but it 5
my life.’
On the first night the
weather was so bad that it tore his new mountain tent to pieces. So he moved to
a Youth Hostel. He 6
the hostel at 10:00 the next morning, but that afternoon he was in trouble. ‘I 7
off a rock and 8
my left leg. I 9
move’
Mountain rescue teams
went out to look for Gary, and 10
him at 09:00 the next morning. A helicopter 11 him to
hospital, where he 12
several operations.
Adapted from New Headway Pre-intermediate, OUP
Answers below!
ANSWERS!
ANSWERS!
1) celebrated
2) lost
3) spent
4) laughed
5) saved
6) left
7) fell
8) broke
9) couldn't
10) found
11) took
12) needed
2) lost
3) spent
4) laughed
5) saved
6) left
7) fell
8) broke
9) couldn't
10) found
11) took
12) needed
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