English Grammar Exercises for A2 – The passive (present perfect and future) (2)

4 Übungen

Dr Kraven Oh no! My apartment 1) has been burgled (burgle).
Eloise How did they get in?
Dr Kraven Through the window. Look. The glass 2) (break).
Eloise They’ve made a terrible mess! 3) anything (steal)?
Dr Kraven Yes. Two notebooks 4) (take) from my desk. But look – my credit cards 5) (not touch). The thieves knew what they wanted. Those notebooks contain top secret information.
Eloise We must find them!
Dr Kraven It’s too late. I’m sure the notebooks 6) (read) by now.
Eloise Who committed the robbery?
Dr Kraven Henderson, I expect.
Eloise Kurt Henderson? But he 7) (not see) here for years.
Dr Kraven Maybe not. But I know that he 8) (release) from prison. My guess is he’s back in town.

Challenge!
Complete the text with the passive form of the verbs in brackets. Use the best tense for each verb: past simple, present simple, present perfect or future.
Secret codes 1) have been used (use) for thousands of years, from ancient times to the present day. And many books 2) (write) about them – for example, Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code, which 3) (publish) in 2003. The book 4) (read) by about 80 million people and in 2006, it 5) (make) into a film.
The world’s first computer programs 6) (use) to break German codes during World War II. Today, the best codes 7) (make) using extremely large numbers, and even the fastest computers in the world can’t break them.
However, most computer scientists believe that in the future, a new kind of computer 8) (build): a quantum computer. The strongest codes that we have today 9) (break) easily by this computer.

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