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Exercise "Spooky story: past simple and past continuous", created by anonyme (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 69 943 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 58.5 / 100 Share
Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): untouchable / BELGIUM, on Wednesday 03 April - 16:13:
"hip hip hip houumoi"
They got a perfect mark
Stats (8333 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 67.7 %
It * just before midnight on October 31st last year.
Question 2 passed: 65.1 %
Susan Lee * home after visiting her sister.
Question 3 passed: 48.8 %
The road was clear and she * carefully.
Question 4 passed: 54.9 %
Suddenly, out of nowhere,a young man * out in front of her.
Question 5 passed: 61.4 %
He * a dark coloured raincoat and carrying a backpack.
Question 6 passed: 59.5 %
Susan * hard on the brake pedal but it was too late.
Question 7 passed: 68.5 %
She * out of the car but,
Question 8 passed: 63.1 %
to her surprise, there * nobody there.
Question 9 passed: 58.3 %
While she * under the car, she felt a cold wind
Question 10 passed: 42.8 %
on her face and a strange presence that * shivers down her spine.
Question 11 passed: 62.6 %
She was still looking under her car when a lorry * behind her.
Question 12 passed: 59.9 %
The lorry driver, a middle-aged man, * up to her and asked her
Question 13 passed: 59.9 %
if she needed help to start her car so she * him what had happened.
Question 14 passed: 48 %
He * seem surprised when Susan told him about the young man.
Question 15 passed: 57 %
'In October 1978, there * a car accident on this road and a hitchhiker was fatally
Question 16 passed: 57.6 %
run over. You're not the first to have seen his ghost here', he * in a mysterious tone.
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