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 |
Japan is the country with the most centenarians: over 50,000. It is also where Jiroemon Kimura, the man with the longest lifespan ever, 1____________born in 1897. Kimura 2____________school at fourteen and 3____________ a job in a post office. While he 4 ____________there, he 5____________his future wife Yae. He 6____________a postal worker for 45 years when he 7____________in 1962. But he 8____________working! He 9____________a farmer! In an interview just before he 10____________at the age of 116, he said he wasn’t sure why he 11____________so long. ‘Maybe it's thanks to the sun,’ he 12____________. ‘I'm always looking up to the sky.’
1 was
2 left
3 got
4 was working
5 met
6 had been
7 retired
8 didn't stop
9 became
10 died
11 had lived
12 said
