Complete the story with the Past Simple or the Past Perfect of the verbs between brackets:

Harriet Quimby was born in 1875 and was raised on a farm in Arcadia, Michigan, in the USA.

Nobody

1

(think) she would be so brave and adventurous when she was a

schoolgirl. However, people who

2

(know) her well, could notice that she

3

(become) very ambitious from the moment she

4

(watch)

John Moisant’s flight at the Belmont Park sports event in October, 1910. It is said that she

5

(get) her driving licence as first female driver in New York, before

she

6

(start) to dream of becoming a pilot .

She realised she

7

(learn) very little to be able to fulfil her dream of

flying. She

8 (want) to be the first woman to get a pilot licence in the

USA. Raymonde de Laroche from France

9

(be) the first woman to get a

pilot licence in the world the year before.

By the time Harriet

10(get) her licence, she

11(write)

seven screenplays for pioneer filmmaker D.W. Griffith

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