3 Complete the texts with the past simple affirmative of the verbs in brackets.
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Tom Crist"
(get) a big surprise
when he 12
(answer) his phone on
16 December 2013. He
(be) a
lottery winner, and the prize
(be)
enormous - $40 million! He 15
(decide)
not to tell anyone about the win. He immediately
(give) all the money to charities.
I don't really need that money, he 7
(say). 'My wife 18
(die) earlier in the
(choose) cancer charities
(help) her!
Callie Rogers
(be) just sixteen
when she
(win) the lottery in
2003. She
(give) up her job as a
shop assistant and
(start) to spend
her money. She
(take) her family
on expensive holidays,
(invite) all
her friends to big parties every weekend and
(have) cosmetic surgery. Ten years
later, she
(have) just £2,000 left.
But she's happy now. 'I'
(be) too
young to win the lottery, she 0
(say).
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6
year so I
that 20
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