INSTRUCTIONS: Complete the text with the past continuous or the simple past tense

and car parts.

- WOMAN: 1.- Carl _____________ (drive) on Rural 86 during the storm. Do you
remember that storm? Of course not, you 2.- _____________ (be) in L.A. It was
a bad one. It was cats and dogs, the worst I'd seen in ten years. He was up
in the boons when he 3.- _____________ (lose) control of the car. He went over
a guardrail and went down a ravine. The car 4.- _____________ (flip) over and
you couldn't see it from the road, especially because of the rain. He
5.- _____________ (hang) there the whole time. Hours. Upside-down, tangled up
in his 6.- _____________. They said he could reach the 7.- _____________, but
he couldn't press it for long 'cause, you see, his arm was broken. And that's
how he died: Upside-down, 8.- _____________ (press) on that
9.- _____________ for as long as he could stand to.
- PSYCHOLOGIST: So when 10.- ___________ it __________ (start)?
- WOMAN: The night after he died. It 11.- _____________ (start) with drops of
water. Like raindrops falling onto my face. I 12.- _____________ (start) to
hear a car 13.- _____________. Short bursts. Distant, I think, but close
enough to wake me, and then, finally now, this was right after the funeral
itself. This was the night after the burial, you see. I 14.- _____________
(feel) the water on my cheeks, and I heard the car 15.- _____________, and
then I looked up at the ceiling and there he 16.- _____________ (hang) there
upside-down. I could, I could see the water dripping off of his hair, and his
face was a, a deep purple, like the blood had all just pooled into his cheeks.
It's funny, you'd think you'd scream after seeing something like that, but
you don't. You just stare. You just stare at it like you're an idiot. And then
his mouth fell open, but it 17.- _____________ (not be) a scream. It was a
car 18.- _____________ _____________ (come) from his mouth so loud. So loud
that I fell off the bed. And then I screamed. I screamed because I hit the
floor and it startled me, and it was like I only just remembered, "Oh, right.
I can scream. I should probably scream." And I screamed, all right. And I ran,
and I 19.- _____________ (trip) in the hallway, and I 20.- _____________
(look) back and he wasn't there, and then I 21.- _____________ (lay) there
and I 22.- _____________ (cry). And that was the last time I've slept in that
room.