5 Choose the correct verb for each gap. Then complete the text with the past simple affirmative form. CROSSING THE SAHARA Michael Asher is a British explorer and the first person to cross the Sahara Desert using only camels. As a young man, Asher 1 _________ (work / arrive) as a police officer and then a teacher. But he 2 _________ (want / wait) to be an explorer. So he 3 _________ (visit / move) to Africa, 4 _________ (live / watch) with an African tribe and 5 _________ (study/ start) their language. He 6 _________ (describe / marry) an Italian woman called Mariantonietta Peru. She 7 _________ (plan / love) the idea of exploring too, and together, they 8 _________ (walk / plan) a journey across the Sahara Desert from west to east by camel and on foot. They 9 _________ (train / stop) for three months and then they 10 _________ (start / end) their journey. They " _________ (work / travel) about 7,250 kilometres and 12 _________ (arrive / live) at their destination 271 days later. Asher 13 _________ (decide / describe) the crossing in his book Impossible Journey - Two Against the Sahara.