Part 3.
Complete the text with these verbs in past simple.
arrive fly go pay say stop take tell think want
Two summers ago we (1)
on a trip to New York. We (2)
from Manchester to John F. Kennedy International Airport. The journey was long but we were very excited; we are from a little village and we really (3)
to visit a megacity like New York. When we (4)
at our destination, we (5)
a taxi to our hotel in Manhattan. The taxi driver was very nice and (6)
us lots of things about New York and Manhattan.
"How much is it?" – I asked the taxi driver when he (7)
his car in front of the hotel. When he (8)
that it was 52 dollars, I (9)
that it wasn't possible, but it was! For the first – and I hope the last – time in my life, I (10)
52 dollars for a taxi. I guess that's one of the problems of big cities, they are really expensive.