ESERCIZIO NUM: 453 - CATEGORIA: verbi > past-simple - DIFFICOLTA': ****
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Completa il brano seguente sulla vita di James Cook (ma suddiviso in frasi numerate) inserendo al posto giusto i verbi assegnati:

SAW, LANDED, ARRIVED, JOINED, MARRIED, CROSSED, STAYED, BORN, MET, LEFT, BURIED, WORKED, BECAME, RETURNED, PROMOTED, MURDERED, DEPARTED, HIT.
1. James Cook was ____ on 27th October 1728. -- 2. He first ____ as an apprentice to a shopkeeper in Staithes, N. Yorkshire. -- 3. He ____ the Royal Navy in 1755, aged 26 years old. -- 4. He ____ Elizabeth Batts on 21st December 1762. -- 5. He ____ from his first voyage to Newfoundland as a surveyor in November 1763. -- 6. He was ____ to the rank of lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1768. -- 7. He ____ from Plymouth in the Endeavour on 26th August 1768. -- 8. The Endeavour ____ at Tahiti on 11th April 1769. -- 9. Cook and his men ____ at Botany Bay (in Australia) on 28th April 1770. -- 10. The Endeavour ____ a coral reef, causing great problems, in June 1770. -- 11. Cook and his wife ____ with his father in Yorkshire in December 1771. -- 12. Cook ____ Plymouth in the Resolution for his second round-the-world voyage on 13th July 1772. -- 13. The Resolution ____ the Antarctic Circle for the first time in January 1773. -- 14. Cook ____ ill as the expedition neared Easter Island in February 1774. -- 15. When he arrived back in England in the summer of 1775 he ____ King George III. -- 16. Cook ____ the west coast of North America on 6th March 1778. -- 17. He was ____ in Hawaii on Valentine’s Day 1779. -- 18. The remains of Cook’s body were ____ in Kealakekua Bay on 22nd February 1779.