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English Worksheet 9th Grade

Theme: Verb Tenses
Name: _______________________________________ Date: __/__/__ WS 1

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in brackets.

Customs agents are not helpful!

Maureen 1) (live) in USA and 2) (decide) to return to the country

where she 3) (born) . She 4) (write) several lists to make
sure she 5) (not forget) anything. By the time she 6) _ (be ) ready
to start packing she had several lists. One with the things that she definitely 7)
_ (take) with her, one with in case there 8) _ (be) space left and
third with in case there 9) _ (be) still space left. Needless to say,
only the items from the first list 10) _ ((make) it into the five suitcases
she 11) (carry) with her. All the goodbyes were said the previous night.
Her son 12) _ (drop) her at the airport and that 13) _ (be) when
the real adventure started. To begin with she 14) (find) out the airline she
15) _ (travel) with only 16) (provide) carts for the passengers. So
after struggling to get all the suitcases into two of those infamous carts she proceeded
to move, slowly very slowly, towards line.
After all her luggage 17) (check) she started 18) _ (walk) towards
the gate. It 19) _ (locate) at the other end of LAX. Going through customs to
leave a country can sometimes be very frustrating. First, she 20) _ (ask)
why she 21) _ (not roll) her carryon. The handle got stuck when she 22)
_ ( get) off the car so she 23) _ (forced)to open the suitcase to
maneuver the handle back into the case. The customs agent 24) _
(understand) yet she asked again. Maureen 25) _ (stand) in line with
hundreds of travelers. The process of 26) _ ( have) ones luggage, person
and passport checked, x-rayed and controlled 26) _ (be) daunting.
After what 27) _ ( seem) like hours she 28) _ (be) finally in the
pre- embarking area. There were so many people! Due to weather conditions, all the
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planes 29) _ (ground) on Miami so there were lots of people who 30) _
(reroute )through LAX.
After a twelve-hour flight, plus a three-hour layover, she 31) _ (arrive) . By
then she 32) _ (become) an expert maneuvering the double cart and
though several people 33) _ (help) along the way moving through endless
airport hallways 34) _ (exhaust).
Maureen 35) _ ( stand) in line at the nearest customs agent. He had quite a
few people in his line, but she just could not 36) _ (push ) those two airport
carts any farther. Another line 37) _ (open) and the agent 38) _
(call) her.
As soon as she 39) _ (call ) near the counter the woman 40) _
( tell) her Oh! You have two carts! I should not have called you. This 41) _
( is) mind boggling, isnt this her job?
The agent 42) _ (say) Why 43) _ ( you have)so much luggage ?
to which Maureen 44) _ (respond ) explaining she 45) _ ( live) in
another country for fifteen years and she 46) _ (now move) back. After
47) _ (ask ) the same question more than five times she 48) _
(proceed)to inform Maureen she 49) _ (open) she suitcases. Maureen told
her there 50) _ (be) no problem but she 51) _ (use) a lot of air
vacuum bags to get everything inside her luggage so after 52) _ (open)
them there 53) _ (be ) no way all the stuff would fit so she was more than
welcome to open them but she 54) _ (have)to either provide her with a
vacuum to reseal the bags or extra luggage to carry all the stuff that 55) _ (
fit)vback inside . You are not going to believe it but the agent said Why are you
carrying so much luggage?

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