Fill the text below with the appripriate form of the verbs in brackets.You will need different past tenses and perfect forms
Last week i.........(go) to an exhibition of paintings in the Barbican Arts Centre.I'm not really a great art lover ,but I ........(read) good reviews of that exhibition and I was keen to see it.When I ........( arrive),lots of people ........(already\queue) in front of the doors. I ........(join) the queue and when the doors ........(open),I ..........(realize) that I.......(stand) in the queue for more than half an hour.I .....(hope) it was worth it. But,once I was inside many of the paintings .......(disappoint) me. I ......(never\see) such nonsense before. Most of the paintings .....(seem) upside down to me.Finnaly,as I ......(look) rather stupidly at one of the paintings,an old gentlmen .....(stop) behind me and......(begin) to explain the whole thing to me .He kindly .......(answer) all of my questions and we ......(talk) for over an hour when he ....(look) at his watch and ....(tell) me he had to leave.We .....(shake) hands and said"good-bye" .For me it was as if someone ....(give) me a pair of magic glasses. Now I ...(find ) that all the paintings were really beautiful.