Write verbs in the past simple.

Is/are         ……………..                             have              ………………                       bind             ………………….

Suffer           ……………………                    make               ………………                    prefer          ………………….

Ban               ……………..                       do               ………………….                 Break              ………………..

Continue              ………………….             Grow              ………………..               stop                  ……………..

Remove               ………………….

Read the text. Complete the gaps..

Foot binding was an old Chinese custom. From the 5th to the 20th century the Chinese …………...women’s feet. They ……………women’s feet in tight bandages. This made their feet smaller. The Chinese …………….. this for reasons of beauty and to show how rich they were. The government of China ………………… this custom in 1911. In the early days when a girl was 3 years old, they ………….most of her toes. The only toes they ………………to break were her big toes. Then they ……………….her feet tightly with bandages. Women’s feet …………. no longer than 10 centimetres.

When the government ……………… this custom, some girls ……………. their bandages but their feet were already deformed. However foot binding continued for sometime before it stopped completely. Old Chinese women had very deformed feet and ………….. badly.