Complete the sentences below using one of these verbs Set III.
- 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.