John was not surprised to see that nobody had met him at the station. The weather __________(BE) awful — it was windy and it was raining hard. His __________(FOOT) got wet in seconds. His old jacket _________(NOT CAN) defend him from the rain or the wind. “If I don't find a shelter and a warm drink, I _________(GET) a cold, and no one will benefit from my coming here,” John said to ___________(HE) and went back inside the railway station. It was the _____________(ONE) time the seventeen-year-old John had ever left his home village where he lived with his mother and two sisters. A letter from his uncle was a surprise but not a pleasant one. His uncle had written that his health was getting worse and that he __________(NEED) someone to help him in his grocery shop. John's mother decided that he __________(GO) to the town to work in the shop. He was far from feeling delighted about it but he was the ___________(OLD) child in the family and it was his duty to help his mother and to support his sisters.

John was not surprised to see that nobody had met him at the station. The weather __________(was) awful — it was windy and it was raining hard. His __________(FEET) got wet in seconds. His old jacket _________(COULD NOT) defend him from the rain or the wind. “If I don't find a shelter and a warm drink, I _________(WILL GET) a cold, and no one will benefit from my coming here,” John said to ___________(HIMSELF) and went back inside the railway station. It was the _____________(ONLY) time the seventeen-year-old John had ever left his home village where he lived with his mother and two sisters. A letter from his uncle was a surprise but not a pleasant one. His uncle had written that his health was getting worse and that he __________(NEEDED) someone to help him in his grocery shop. John's mother decided that he __________(SHOULD GO) to the town to work in the shop. He was far from feeling delighted about it but he was the ___________(OLDEST) child in the family and it was his duty to help his mother and to support his sisters.