Complete each sentence with a
form of one of
the verbs from
the list. Use each
verb once only

afford, bear, continue, expect, happen, learn, love, offer, prefer, pretend

a) John really ...lexes spending all day at the beach.
b) I'm completely broke, so I can't to go on holiday.
c) Excuse me, but do you to know the way to Old Street?
d) We
Our team to win, but they were badly beaten.
e) Kate to speak French and German when she was at school.
f) Even when the examiner told him to stop, Bill ... speaking
g) I'm sorry, but I can't to listen to this awful music!
h) Last week George
to help me paint my bike.
i) Paul to have a bad leg so he didn't have to go to the gym.
j). Sam usually playing football to doing homework.​

Read this excerpt from holes. a patrol car pulled alongside him. a policeman asked him why he was running. then he took the shoes and made a call on his radio. shortly thereafter, stanley was arrested. it turned out the sneakers had been stolen from a display at the homeless shelter. that evening rich people were going to come to the shelter and pay a hundred dollars to eat the food that the poor people ate every day for free. clyde livingston, who had once lived at the shelter when he was younger, was going to speak and sign autographs. his shoes would be auctioned, and it was expected that they would sell for over five thousand dollars. all the money would go to the homeless. why does sachar include this description of the shoes in the flashback? to show where the shoes came from to show how valuable the shoes were to reveal why stanley was arrested to give background on the homeless shelter