Read the following story: the fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor candlemaker. He .........(go) to school only one year.

Here is the completed text with the correct verb forms in the Past Simple tense: Benjamin Franklin was the fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor candlemaker. He went to school only one year. At the age of fourteen he decided to be a writer. He copied the great stories of famous writers and later he became the best known writer in his time. When he was seventeen, he left Boston and arrived in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his pocket. He got a job as a publisher of a newspaper and retired from business as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he spent the next forty years for his government. He played an important role in the founding of the USA. Franklin was also an important scientist and inventor. He drew electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He wrote one of the first text books on electricity. He invented a simple lightning rod and many other practical tools. He made a study of water and discovered many principles of hydrodynamics. He even invented bifocal glasses when he was seventy-eight and needed them himself. Franklin did all these things and many more because he believed he could.