Question

Complete this text with the correct past simple or past continuous form of the verbs given. Julia Wyman now lives in Australia, but she was born in the Philippines. Her parents, who are both engineers,. ..1(supervise) the construction of a power station there at the time. In the 1980s, they. .2 (move) to Canada. While she...3 (study) business administration at the Toronto College of Economics, Julia ...4 (have) her first great idea. She...5(create) a system that would enable companies to get better, more useful feedback from their customers. Two years later, she ...6 (do) research into types of company organisation when another interesting idea ...7 (come) to her. She ...8 (modify) the traditional, hierarchical company structure in a way that ...9 (improve) the flow of communication and...10 (give) employees greater autonomy.

Dayton & Cooper soon11 (hire) her as a consultant, and later ...12 (offer) her a post in Melbourne, where they...13 (set up) their new headquarters.