Questão 2598144

Two Teens Hitchhiked to a Concert. 50 Years Later, They Haven’t Come Home.

01 On the morning of July 27, 1973, two Brooklyn teenagers set out for central New York to

02 attend one of the _____ (big) concerts _____ rock history. They were never seen again. Fifty years

03 ago last week marked the disappearance of 16-year-old Mitchel Weiser and 15-year-old Bonnie

04 Bickwit, two gifted students who are the _____ (old) missing-teen cases _____ the country. Initially

05 dismissed as romantic runaways who would return home soon, the pair’s fate remains a mystery.

06 After decades of police bungling and false leads, investigators have tracked several theories over

07 what might have happened to them. Amid recent information about a possible suspect connected

08 to their disappearance, Mitchel’s and Bonnie’s friends and families are now calling on federal and

09 state officials to provide the necessary resources to solve the coldest of cold cases.

10 The couple was apparently last seen leaving Camp Wel-Met. Their plan was to hitchhike*

11 150 miles northwest to attend an outdoor concert dubbed “Summer Jam” at the Watkins Glen

12 Grand Prix Raceway. On the morning of July 27 — concert tickets in hand — the pair set out for

13 the show. They were last seen hitchhiking along State Route 97. A truck driver picked them up.

14 They thanked him after he dropped them off a short time later. He was the last known person

15 to have seen them. On Monday, July 30, a day and a half after the concert ended, Camp Wel-

16 Met contacted Bonnie’s mother, Raye, and told her Bonnie had not returned. The next day,

17 Mitchel’s father, Sidney, and sister Susan drove five hours from Brooklyn to Watkins Glen. “We

18 met with the county police, who treated them as runaways”, she says. Police in Sullivan County,

19 Schuyler County, and New York City ignored the case and carried out no proper investigation.

20 Missing persons experts say that the case’s 50th anniversary presents an extraordinary

21 opportunity to engage the public — particularly anyone who attended Summer Jam — to search

22 their memories, look at photos of Mitchel and Bonnie, and try to recall any new information.

23 “This case is unique”, adds Marissa Jones, founder and host of The Vanished podcast, who has

24 reported on 400 missing-persons cases. “There is a huge concert with people coming from all

25 over. There’s hitchhiking. It’s a tough case to establish a firm timeline — we don’t know if they

26 even made it to the concert or at what point. It’s a tough one to pull apart”.

(Available at: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mitchel-weiser-bonnie-bickwit-missingteens-summer-jam-1234798437/ – text especially adapted for this test).

*Hitchhike (verb): to travel by getting free rides in someone else's vehicle. (In: www.dictionary.cambridge.org).

The words in bold “thanked” (l. 14), “dropped” (l. 14), “ignored” (l. 19), and “carried” (l. 19) are all simple past regular verbs, but each one of them follows a different spelling rule. Which alternative shows simple past regular verbs that follow the same rules, respectively?