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Read the text. Complete the gaps with the Past Simple form
of the verbs in the box.
love retire die work start look
Susan Peel is over ninety years old. She is very happy, but she can remember times when her life was difficult.
Her parents … when she was twelve. She … work as a housemaid with a rich family. There were five children, so she … after them. She … with that family for twenty years until she … .

Answer 1

Her parents died when she was twelve. She started to work as a housemaid with a rich family. There were five children, so she looked after them. She had been working /worked with that family for twenty years until she retired .