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Put the verb in the correct form

People….(enjoy) chewing gum-like substance in many lands centuries ago. Some of these materials ….(be)
thickened resin and latex from certain kinds of trees. Others….(be) various sweet grasses, leaves, grains and
waxes. Ancient Greeks, for example,….(chew) mastic gum which they….(obtain) from bark of the mastic
tree. This tree….(grow) on the island Chios. Grecian women especially….(like) chewing mastic gum to clean
their teeth and sweeten their breath.

From the Indians, the American colonist…(learn) to chew the gum-like resin that formed on spruce trees
when the bark was cut. Lumps of spruce gum…(become) popular and merchants….(sell) them in the eastern
United States making it the first commercial chewing gum in this country. Mexican General Santa Anna…
(introduce) such lumps to the inventor Thomas Adams, who…(begin) experimenting with it as a substance
for rubber. Adams…(try) to make toys, masks and rain boots, but his experiments…(fail). Sitting in his
workshop one day, tired and discouraged, he…(put) a lump of gum into his mouth. Adams ….(not to find
out) the way of producing rubber, but he…(open) the world’s first chewing gum factory. Later Adams…(try)
to add flavor to the gum. He…(create) a licorice-flavoured gum which ….(become) popular with the public.
But the gum…(have) one drawback – it ……(not to hold) the flavour.

Another man, William White…(experiment) with flavour of the gum. He….(solve) the problem by using the
flavour of peppermint and it….(stay) in the gum during chewing. By the early 1900s, with improved
methods of manufacturing, packaging and marketing, modern chewing gum….(be) on the way to its current
popularity.

2. Find mistakes
1.The pupils readed an interesting legend at the lesson yesterday. 2.He didn’t went to the disco last
night. 3.Dolly and Tina stoped in this hotel last year. 4.Did Mary left the office early yesterday? –
No, she didn’t. 5.Nigel spended a week in the mountains last month. 6.Were you at the seaside last
summer? – No, we were. 7.The secretary copyd all the documents a day ago. 8.Was your friends
disappoint to know the truth? 9.It weren’t very hot last week. 10.Stuart graduate from university a
year ago.