Complete the text with the Past Simple or the Past Progressive of the
verbs in brackets.
Yesterday morning, there (1)__________________(be) an attempted
robbery at a computer shop. Two men who (2)_________________
(wear) gorilla masks (3 ) __________________(run) into the shop, (4 )
__________________(pull) out their guns and(5 ) _________________
(ask) for all the money in the till. At first, the staff
(6)__________________(think) the robbers (7 )
__________________(play) a joke on them as it was April Fool’s Day,
and one of the shop assistants even (8 ) _________________ (offer) the
robbers a banana.
However, the robbers (9 )__________________(get) angry and
(10)__________________(fire) their guns into the air. It
(11)__________________(become) apparent that this was no joke, so
the shop assistants (12)_________________(give) the robbers all the
money in the till. However, when the robbers
(13)__________________(fire) their guns into the air, the alarm
(14)__________________(go off) and the police
(15)__________________(arrive) at the scene in no time. As the robbers
(16)_________________ (leave) the shop, they
(17)_________________ (notice) that the shop was surrounded by
police cars.
They(18)_________________ (have) no choice but to
surrender.