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Fill the gaps with a verb in the correct tense, active or passive.

Here are some of the strangest deaths on record. Read these true stories and fill the gaps with a verb in the correct tense from the boxes.

1.  Major Summerfield

He was struck by lightening three times!

Major Summerfield was a victim of lightening three times, once even

after he 1                               

The first time was 1918. He 2                              for the Canadian army in Flanders when he 3                                                                   by lightening and he 4   off his horse. However, he

5                                                        badly.

Major Summerfield was a keen fisherman and six years later, back in his home town in Vancouver, he 6                                                                      and just 7                           a huge salmon, when lightening 8                                          again. This time it was more serious and his legs 9                                     

He eventually died in 1932. On the day of his funeral there was a terrible thunderstorm, and just as Major Summerfield 10                                                                                             , lightening hit the graveyard, and his tombstone 11                                                                                              into hundreds of tiny pieces.

DIE FIGHT STRIKE FALL

NOT/INJURE

FISH CATCH

PARALISE

BURY SHATTER

2.                                             Maudie Walker

She died of excitement!

Maudie Walker was a 59-year-old contestant on a live American TV quiz show, called Temptation. She just 1                                                                                                                   

in winning the game, and 2                                              at the camera and 3                  to all her family in the audience, when she 4                  by the excitement of the moment and 5    a massive heart attack.

She 6                                 in front of ten million viewers. Temptation has not been shown live since.

SUCCEED SMILE WAVE OVERCOME SUFFER

DIE

3.   Rueben Tice

He was killed by his own invention!

Rueben Tice was an electrician from Monterey, California but in his spare time he was also an inventor. His first invention was an idea for chilling

cocktail glasses but this l                                                    very successful.             NOT/BE In the winter of 1977, he 2                                          on his latest invention.             WORK This was an amazing device to take wrinkles out of prunes.

He 3                                                                     for six nights, because he               SLEEP 4                                                      the final touches to his great discovery.               PUT He was nearly ready to share it with the world.

Unfortunately for mankind the machine 5                                                                  EXPLODE

with a loud bang and Rueben 6                                 on the head by a              HIT

large metal rod. He 7                                             instantly. His dead body              KILL

8                                        in thousand of prunes. Unfortunately they were                COVER still wrinkled!