Words you know: complete the sentences

hire · outage · internship · system administrator · programming language

• The server went down, and the ____ resolved the problem.
• Our users were angry because the website was offline during the ____ .
• Python is a very popular ____ for writing tests.
• Our startup decided to ____ two new developers last month.
• She started her career in IT with a three-month ____ at our company.

Remember: Past continuous

• While Allison [was debugging / debugged] the code, Sean called her.
• What [were you doing / did you do] when the database went down?
• The system administrator [was working / worked] at midnight yesterday.
• We [were not searching / did not search] the logs when the power failed.

Remember: Past simple: regular and irregular verbs

• Last week, we [discovered / discover] a critical bug in the login page.
• He [went / goed] to the Boston office yesterday.
• They [did not hire / not hired] the new UX designer.
• The server suddenly [ran / run] out of memory.

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