Mixed tenses in context exercise

James Cook (1728-1779) The British explorer James Cook was born in the village of Marton, Yorkshire, on 27 October, 1728. His family soon ____________ (move) to another village, called Great Ayton, where Cook  _____________(spend)  _____________(spend) most of his childhood. As a teenager teenager James Cook ______________ ______________ (develop) a fascination for the sea and _______________ _______________ (travel) to Whitby where where he _____________ _____________ (find) employment on a coal ship. While he _______________ _______________ (serve) in the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), Cook _____________ (have) the command of a ship. Once the war _______________ _______________ (end), Cook _______________ (take) command of the vessel Grenville and _______________ (go) to Newfoundland to survey the coasts there. W hile he ________________ ________________ (map) the coasts o f Newfoundland, he _______________ (observe) a solar eclipse off the North American coast. Cook _______________ (send) the details to the Royal Society, England's leading scientific organisation, and ________________ ________________ (win) their attention. After Cook _________________ _________________ (publish) his observations of t he solar eclipse, the Royal Society Soc iety  ________________  ________________ (ask) him to lead a scientific expedition to Tahiti and ________________ ________________ (put) him in command of the HMS Endeavour. From Tahiti Cook then ________________ (go on) to explore the South Pacific. He also _________________ (reach) New Zealand, which only the Dutchman Abel Tasman ________________ ________________ (visit) before Cook. After Cook ______________ ______________ (map) New Zealand's complete coastline, he _______________ _______________ (sail) to Australia's east coast. Cook ______________ (name) the area New South Wales as it ______________ (remind) him of the south coast of Wales in Great Britain. In 1772, one year after Cook ______________ (return) from his first voyage to the Pacific, the Royal Society _____________ (hire) him for another expedition to find the mythical Terra Australis . On “

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his journey, Cook ______________ (discover) several islands and almost __________ (go) as far as the continent of Antarctica. He ______________ (make) maps of the South Pacific and ___________(prove) ___________(prove) that Terra Australis _____________(exist _____________(exist / not). His third and last voyage for the Royal Society ______________ ______________ (take) him to the west coast of North America where he _______________ (try) to find a passage between the Atlantic and Pacific. He ________________ ________________ (not / can c an / pass) the Bering Strait, however; the ice ______________(force) ______________(force) him to return to Hawaii, which he__________________ he__________________ (discover) earlier. While he and his crew _______________ _______________ (rest) in Hawaii, some Hawaiians _____________ (steal) one of his boats. When cook and his men ________________ ________________ (try) to get the boat back from the natives, a violent fight ________________ (break out) in which the natives _________________ (stab) James Cook to death.