Read the biography of the man behind the success of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, and fill in the blanks with the verbs in brackets. Use simple past tense. Everybody knows about Starbucks. but what about the man behind it? How did he achieve such a big success? His story is really an inspirational onel Schultz (be born) in Brooklyn, New York on July 19, 1953 into a poor family. He ² in a low-income neighbourhood. Schultz ³ old, his father 4 6 12 In high school, he 7 he 8 10 (face) financial difficulties. (live) (see) his father's struggle for money. When he was seven years (injure) his leg at work and 5 (have) no medical insurance, so they his blood a couple of times. After he 15 17 (play) football and earned an athletic scholarship at Northern Michigan University. When (start) college, he 9 (realise) that it wasn't a suitable profession for him, so he (change) his department. He "¹ (do) many things to pay for college. He (work) as a bartender and even 14 (take) out student loans, 13 (graduate), he 16 (join) a Swedish company, Hammarplast. The company like coffee machines to companies including Starbucks. Starbucks 19 Before long, he 21 (work) as a sales manager for Xerox for three years. Then, he (sell) different home appliances 18 (catch) Schultz's attention when it 20 WHAT A LIFE (meet) the owners of Starbucks, and in a year, they 22 Schultz as the director of marketing. At that time, there 23 three Starbucks stores. (order) a great number of coffee machines. In 1985, Schultz 30 31 One day, he 24 exploring the city, he 25 those coffee shops, he 26 change his career. The workers 27 relationships with their customers, and they always 28 the customers by their names while serving cappuccinos, lattes and so on. (call) This trip 29 (inspire) him greatly. (sell) (go) to Milan on a business trip. While (hire) (be) only trying to raise money for his company, he 32 to 242 people, and 217 of them 33 (come) across small coffee shops. In (witness) many things that would (have) great personal (leave) Starbucks and (open) his own coffee company "Il Giornale" (The Daily) as he couldn't convince Starbucks' owners of his creative ideas. While However, he didn't give up. Finally, he 34 much profit that he 35 between 1998 and 2008, Starbucks 36 1,886 stores to 16,680. (speak) (say) no to him. (make) so (buy) Starbucks. In the end, (grow) from Today, Starbucks has more than 34,000 stores in 80 countries, and it continues to grow every year. Marathon Plus 11 Reference Book UNITA 4​