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In 1725, a French ship, Le Chameau, ______________ (to strike) a rock in a stormy sea. A big hole ______________ (to cut) in the bottom of the ship and it ____________ (to go) down off the shore of Nova Scotia. On board the ship there ____________ (to be) 300,000 gold and silver coins.
For many years they ______________ (to lie) at the bottom of the deep sea. One summer Alex Storm and Dave MacEachern began ______________ (to dive) into the freezing waters off Nova Scotia. They had ______________ (to fight) big waves and strong currents. Big sharks ______________ (to see) swimming around them. When the two friends ______________ (to get) out of the water, they ______________ (to be) blue with cold and ______________ (to shake.)
On September 22, Alex and Dave ______________ (to be) ready to dive again. They didn’t expect anything ___________________ (to find) this time. They ______________ (to be) down so many times before. “Perhaps we ought __________________ (to give up),” Alex said.
They ______________ (to dive) again and suddenly they ______________ (can) not believe their eyes. “Look! We ______________ (to swim) over thousands of coins. They ______________ (to pile) row on row,” Dave said. The excited men ______________ (to pick) the coins up in their hands and went to the top.