Complete the story with the verbs in brackets in the Past Simple, the Past Continuous or the Past Perfect. One day, when Albert Einstein 1) ___(go) round the USA on a speaking tour, his driver, who often 2) ___ (sit) at the back of the hall during his lectures, 3) ___ (remark) that he could probably give the lecture himself because he 4) ___ (hear) it so many times. Sure enough, at the next stop on the tour, Einstein and the driver 5) (switch) places and Einstein 6)___ (sit) at the back of the hall in the driver’s uniform.
After the driver 7) ___ (deliver) a brilliant lecture, a member of the audience 8) ___ (ask) him a difficult question. “Well, the answer to this question is quite simple,” he 9) ___ (reply) casually. “ I bet, my driver, sitting up at the back there 10) (can answer) it.”
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