Question

8. Complete the sentences below using one of these verbs:
saw, landed, arrived, joined, married, crossed, stayed, met, left, buried, worked, became, returned, promoted, murdered, departed, hit

1. He first _______as an apprentice to a shopkeeper in Staithes, N. Yorkshire.
2. He ______________ the Royal Navy in 1755, aged 26 years old.
3. He ______________ Elizabeth Batts on 21st December 1762.
4. He ______________ from his first voyage to Newfoundland as a surveyor
in November 1763.
5. He was _____________ to the rank of lieutenant in the Royal Navy in
1768.
6. He ______________ from Plymouth in the Endeavour on 26th August
1768.
7. The Endeavour ______________ at Tahiti on 11th April 1769.
8. Cook and his men _____________ at Botany Bay (in Australia) on 28th
April 1770.
9. The Endeavour ______________ a coral reef, causing great problems, in
June 1770.
10.Cook and his wife ______________ with his father in Yorkshire in
December 1771.
11.Cook ______________ Plymouth in the Resolution for his second round-
the-world voyage on 13th July 1772.
12.The Resolution _____________ the Antarctic Circle for the first time in
January 1773.
13.Cook ______________ ill as the expedition neared Easter Island in
February 1774.
14.When he arrived back in England in the summer of 1775 he
______________ King George III.
15.Cook _____________ the west coast of North America on 6th March 1778.
16.He was ______________ in Hawaii on Valentine’s Day 1779.
17.The remains of Cook’s body were __________ in Kealakekua Bay on 22nd.

Answer 1

1)worked
2)become
3)married
4)departed
5)promoted
6)
8)stayed
17)buried