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Rat story

The document describes an unpleasant experience of a traveler named Brent in Malaysia. While he was traveling, he arrived at a small town and decided to stay at a scruffy hotel, where he encountered a large rat that startled him. After a brief struggle with the rat, he left the hotel at sunrise, unable to sleep that night.

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Rat story

The document describes an unpleasant experience of a traveler named Brent in Malaysia. While he was traveling, he arrived at a small town and decided to stay at a scruffy hotel, where he encountered a large rat that startled him. After a brief struggle with the rat, he left the hotel at sunrise, unable to sleep that night.

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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)

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_________________ 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.

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