Complete the following text. Use the correct forms of the words in brackets and find your own to replace the question marks. There is one example (0) at the beginning.
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A fascinating New Zealander: Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)
According to TIME, one of the ''most influential (influential)'' people of the century was the New Zealand-born Sir Edmund Hillary. As a child, Ed wasn't '' as tall (tall)'' as his peers and very shy. He ''spent(spend)'' his daily train journeys to school reading adventure stories: "Since my school day I ''have read|have been reading(read)'' every book I could get hold of," he once mentioned in an interview.