Question

  Something interesting 1.        (happen) by the end of the last Christmas shopping hour in London. A poor man,who,though no fault of his own,2.        (find) that he himself 3.        (lock) in a big store late on Christmas Eve.

 No doubt the store was crowded with people buying presents and the assistants 4.        (be) dead beat and wanted to go home. It seemed that all the necessary checks 5.        (make) before the store was locked,and the assistants 6.          (go) home to enjoy the three-day holiday.

  However,the man was still in the store. When he 7.        (realize) that，he decided to make the best of it. In the store,of course,there was plenty of food,drink and bedding. There must 8.        (be) radios and television sets,which no one could tell whether the man 9.        (use) .  When the store reopened，the man was discovered in bed with a large number of empty bottles beside him. He seemed to have been very happy. Everyone else was enjoying Christmas,so he saw no reason why he 10.        (do) the same.  Happily enough he let the police take him away. Perhaps he 11.        (have) a better Christmas than usual. It was reported that the man would have to stay in prison for seven days. It seemed,however,the judge was not going to do anything for the store，as he said that the store 12.        (become) better

known through the story in the newspaper and on television.

Answer 1

  1. had happened  2. found  3. had been  locked

4. had been 5. had been made  6. went  7. had realized

8. have been 9. had ever used 10. hadn’t done

11. had had 12. had become