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

Our memory can play strange tricks; there is often a considerable difference between what

we (1)________________ (remember) happening and what actually (2)________________

(happen). What we remember (3)________________ (seem) to be a combination of what

we (4)________________ (see) and what we subsequently (5)________________ (think).

In this connection, there is an interesting account from the Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget,

who (6)________________ (have) a vivid memory of an event when he was very young. “I

(7)________________(sit) in my pram, which my nurse (8)________________ (push) in the

Champs-Elysées, when a man (9)________________ (try) to kidnap me. I was held in by

the strap fastened round me, while my nurse bravely (10)________________ (stand)

between me and the thief. She (11)________________ (receive) various scratches, and I

can still vaguely see those on her face. Then a crowd (12)________________ (gather), a

policeman with a white baton (13)________________ (come) up, and the man

(14)________________ (take) to his heels. I can still see the whole scene and can even

place it near the tube station. When I(15)________________ (be) about 15, my parents

received a letter from my former nurse saying that she (16)________________ (want) to

confess her past faults, and in particular to return the watch my parents

(17)________________ (give) her on this occasion. She (18)________________ (make) up

the whole, faking the scratches.' Then Piaget (19)________________ (realise) that he

(20)________________ (hear) the story as a child, and that his imagination

(21)________________ (construct) a visual memory of an event that

(22)________________ (never happen)!

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That evening, like every other evening, Jil (1)________________ (stay) at home. She

(2)________________(iron) her school uniform when the telephone (3)________________

(ring). It (4)________________ (be) her best friend Sissy on the phone. “What
(5)________________ (you do) tomorrow evening?” “Saturday night?” “Yes. There's going

to be a party. You must go.” “But Sissy, you (6)________________ (know) I

(7)________________ (not go) to parties.” “Come on Jil, you're a junior college students

now. Your parents should let you have a little freedom to go to parties.” “No, it

(8)________________ (not be) my parents,” (9)________________ (admit) Jil. “It's me. I

(10)________________ (not like) going to parties. It's ...” “Come on Jil,”

(11)________________ (insist) Sissy, “How (12)________________ (you make) any friends

if you (13)________________ (not socialise)?” Jil (14)________________ (reply), “But I

(15)________________ (never be) to a party. I mean, what (16)________________ (I

wear)?”

“Didn't you read The Textbook?” “What textbook?” “The Teenage Textbook, woman. The

one I (17)________________ (give) you for your birthday. Look, you have to go. I

(18)________________ (invite) all our old gang, as well as Rosie, Jillian, May, Linda and

Toni. There'll be also guys. Sean (19)________________ (come) with Rick –

(20)________________ (you know) him? He used to have a crush on me. I

(21)________________ (ask) Harry and Jason to come, too. Come on Jil.” “Well, OK,” Jil

(22)________________ (say) eventually. “I (23)________________ (come).” “Great. I have

to go now, Jil. I have to go call some other people. See you tomorrow in school. Bye-bye.”

Sissy rang off. That night, Jil (24)________________ (sit) in bed, wrapped up in her soft

blue blanket, two big pillows propping her up and her favourite pink bolster in her arms. She

(25)________________ (pull) out The Teenage Textbook from the chest of drawers beside

her bed and (26)________________ (open) it to the lesson on parties. This is what it said...