A biography

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Read the paragraph below and fill in the missing words.

Choose among the following verbs in the past tense form

 

looked        lived    worked    loved    started    learned    earned    married    died    hated   wanted

Mattie was never at school. She with her mother and four sisters. She couldn' t read or write but she created poems in her head. She work when she was eight. She in the cotton fields from 6.00 in the morning until 10.00 at night. Sixteen hours in the cotton fields and she only $2 a day. She that job and she the poems in her head. She really to learn to read and write. When she was sixteen she Hubert, and soon there were six children, five sons and a daughter, Lily. Hubert just before Lily was born. That was sixty-five years ago. So she after her family alone. There was no time for learning, but her children to read and write, that was important to her. She only learned to read and write when she was 86, and now she has three books of poems.
  


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Where did Mattie work?
  
Sixteen hours a day.
In the cotton fields.
When she was eight.

How many hours did she work?
  
There were six children.
$2 a day.
Sixteen hours a day.

How much did she earn?
  
Sixty-five years ago.
$2 a day.
Hubert.

Who did she marry?
  
Hubert
Her mother and sisters.
When she was eight years old.

When did Hubert die?
  
Sixteen hours a day.
Sixty-five years ago.
When she was 86.

When did she learn to read?
  
When she was eight years old.
She didn't learn until she was 86.
Sixty-five years ago.