## Step 4 - Reading

Reading
Read this text. Complete with the verbs below and put them into the correct form: simple past or past continuous. Some are negative forms.
Choose from:
access / be / change / charge / copy / do / gain / log / look / realise / receive / try / type
Last year, the police .....[1]..... a 9th grader for an offense against a school computer system. The young boy .....[2]..... unauthorized access to the system and he .....[3]..... onto the systems with the school’s administrative password. Noone .....[4]..... him permission.
He .....[5]..... a teacher’s profile and .....[6]..... the name to a favourite cartoon character. But he .....[7]..... at any tests or scores on the system.
His mum said ‘He .....[8]..... to do anything bad, and he .....[9]..... anything serious. He’s a good boy – most of the time”.
Last year the same boy .....[10]..... a three day suspension for a similar crime. The boy, who cannot be identified, said ‘Honestly, it .....[11]..... so easy to do.
The teacher .....[12]..... in his password really slowly and then I .....[13]..... that he .....[14]..... from a piece of paper. Noone does that!”