Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or

past continuous tense, as appropriate.

Here is what my friend Brent told me about an unpleasant experience he had while he
was in Asia.

While l (travel)____________________ around Malaysia, one evening I (arrive)

____________________ at a small town where I (decide) ______________ to stop for the night
because I (be) ____________________ too tired to go on. I (go) ____________________to the only
"hotel" in the town. It (look) ____________ scruffy and not very inviting but I (have)
_______________ no choice. After a quick meal I (go)____________ straight to bed. I (intend)
_________________to read for a while but after a few minutes I (feel) _________________ so
sleepy that I (switch) _________________off the light. Outside some nocturnal bird (make)
_________________ strange noises and somebody (talk) ___________________________ and
(listen) _______________________to the radio in the room next to mine.

Soon I (fall) ______________ asleep. I suddenly (wake) _________________up in a cold sweat l

(tremble) __________________all over. I (know) _________________something (be)
_________________wrong but I couldn't tell what. lt was just a very creepy feeling. The
moon still (shine)_________________. All of a sudden I (hear)_________________a sound. lt was
as if something (make) _________________a scratching noise. lt (stop)_________________.
Then it (start) _________________again. Surely it couldn't be a snake? The man I (talk)
_________________ to over supper had said that sometimes snakes (enter) _________________
the rooms of the hotel. I (order) _________________ myself to keep calm. While I (try)
_________________ to adjust my eyesight to the moon light I (hear)_________________ the
noise again.

Then I (see) _________________ it. My blood (chill) ______________. It was a rat. Not an
ordinary rat. lt was huge, a monster, about 50 cm, with big ears and a long hairless tail.
_____I (dream) ___________? No, it wasn't a nightmare.

It (stand) _________________ on its hind legs on my rucksack about a metre from where I
(sit) ________________ in my bed. It (look) _________________ at me with red menacing eyes.
And it (eat) _________________ something., It (hold) _________________ it in its front paws.
When it had finished it (remain) _________________ immobile. I (not move) _________________
either, as if we (both wait) _________________ for some signal. We (stay) _________________
like that for a couple of minutes I think , but they (seem) _________________ hours to me.
Then, without warning, the thing (jump) _________________ at me. I (scream)
_________________. Its body was hard and smelly. I (hit) _________________ it blindly with my
naked hands. The struggle (last) _________________ only a few seconds then the creature
(jump) _________________ on the floor with a heavy thud and (run) _________________ away.
While it (run) _________________,I (grab) _________________ a shoe and I (throw)
_________________it at it. Then I (stand)_________________there, paralyzed with a horror. Of
course I (sleep not) _________________again that night and as soon as the sun (rise)
_________________ I (pick) _________________all my things and (leave) _________________ the
place.