Для тех,кто хорошо знает английский. Как я понимаю-это Past Simple Tense

1. Дополните предложения глаголами в прошедшем времени.
advertise, increase, be, develop, employ, become, start, rise.
The company (1) ___ in 1970. They (2) ___ a product for cleaning car windows. At first, it (3) ___ difficult to enter the market but they (4) ___ the product in newspapers and magazines. It soon (5) ___ a great success. In 1975, they (6) ___ more staff and (7) ___ production. A year later, profits (8) ___. The company is now one of the most successful of its land.

2. Дополните предложения глаголами в прошедшем времени.
Put the following verbs into the correct form in the passage below.
return, attend, live, be, leave, get, travel, work, teach, become, study, go.
Maria Gonzales was born in Spain in 1950. She (1) ___ in Madrid with her family when she (2) ___ a child and (3) ___ to school there. When she (4) ___ school, she (5) ___ English at the university and later (6) ___ a language teacher. She (7) ___ English in Spain for two years and then (8) ___ to the United States where she (9) ___ an American college. When she (10) ___ to Europe, she (11) ___ a job in England where she (12) ___ until 1990.