Question

Помогите, пожалуйста! Очень нужнооо! Fill in each gap using the most appropriate past tense form of the verb.


It was late at night on 9 November 1989. I (1)....(sit) in my apartment in West Berlin. I (2)....(play) cards for a few hours with some friends but we were tired and (3)....(decide) to turn the TV on. There was a news headline that two East German citizens (4)....(cross) into West Berlin without restrictions. We (5)....(live) just a few kilometers from the border with East Germany. People (6)....(talk) about it for weeks, but we (7)....(know) if any of it was true. Early the next morning, we (8) (Jump) on the underground train to go to the wall. Normally the journey to the wall only (9)………………. (take) 20 minutes, but the news (10)……………… (spread) quickly and thousands of people (11)………………. (try) to get there too.
At first people (12) (not "believe) it but soon everyone (13)....(realize) that something incredible (14)....(happen).
After we (15)....(travel) for more than an hour, we arrived. There was chaos as crowds of people (16)....(gather) around the border crossing. Then I realized that it was true – the night before they (17)....(raise) the barrier and East Berliners (18)....(walk) through. As they came into West Berlin everyone (19)....(cheer). Then people (20)....(start) to break down the concrete wall with axes. Later I (21)....(go) across the border into East Berlin. I was lucky enough to be there at such an important historic moment. I'll never forget it.

Answer 1

1 was sitting  2  had been playing  3 decided  4 had crossed 5   lived 6 had been talking  7  knew  8 jumped  9  took 10 had spread  11  were  trying  12 did not believe   13  realized   14  had happened  15  had traveled  16 was gathering 17 raised  18 were walking 19 was cheered  20  started  21 went