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Japan is the country with the most centenarians - over 50,000. It is also where Jiroemon Kimura, the man with the longest lifespan ever, was born in 1897, the year that Bram Stoker had written Dracula. Kimura left school at fourteen and got a job in a post office. While he was working there, he met his future wife, Yae. He had been a postal worker for 45 years when he retired in 1962. But he did not stop working! He became a farmer! In an interview just before he died at the age of 116, he said he wasn't sure why he lived so long. 'Maybe it's thanks to the sun, 'he said, 'I'm always looking up to the sky!'
Explanation:
In the given passage, the speaker talks about a certain man named Jiroemon Kimura and his life. And throughout the whole passage, the verbs given in parenthesis will be either in the simple past, past perfect, or the past continuous form. The simple past is used to talk of past events, the past continuous to talk of past events that are continuing or happened at some point in the past, and the past perfect is used for actions that were completed at some specified point in the past.
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Japan is the country with the most centenarians - over 50,000. It is also where Jiroemon Kimura, the man with the longest lifespan ever, was born in 1897, the year that Bram Stoker had written Dracula. Kimura left school at fourteen and got a job in a post office. While he was working there, he met his future wife, Yae. He had been a postal worker for 45 years when he retired in 1962. But he did not stop working! He became a farmer! In an interview just before he died at the age of 116, he said he wasn't sure why he lived so long. 'Maybe it's thanks to the sun, 'he said, 'I'm always looking up to the sky!'
