Complete the texts with the past simple affirmative of the verbs in brackets (Hoàn thành các bài văn với thì quá khứ đơn khẳng định của các động từ trong ngoặc)
Callie Rogers (1. be) just sixteen when she (2. win) the lottery in 2003. She (3. give) up her job as a shop assistant and (4. start) to spend her money. She (5. take) her family on expensive holidays, (6. invite) all her friends to big parties every weekend and (7. have) cosmetic surgery. Ten years later, she (8. have) just £2,000 left. But she's happy now. “I (9. be) too young to win the lottery” she (10. say).
Tom Crist (11. get) a big surprise when he (12. answer) his phone on 16 December 2013. He (13. be) a lottery winner, and the prize (14. be) enormous - $40 million! He (15. decide) not to tell anyone about the win. He immediately (16. give) all the money to charities. “I don't really need that money” he (17. say). “My wife (18. die) earlier in the year so I (19. choose) cancer charities that (20. help) her!