Fill each of the blanks in the following passage with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the spaces that follow. (15 pts)He was born in a very poor part of London. His father was a comedian and his mother worked (1) a dancer and singer. However, (2) of them was very successful, so the family had very (3) money. At one time they were (4) poor that he and his brother had to share one pair of shoes, and they had to take turns wearing them. The first time he himself earned money (5)...
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Fill each of the blanks in the following passage with ONE suitable word.
Write your answers in the spaces that follow. (15 pts)
He was born in a very poor part of London. His father was a comedian and his mother worked (1) a dancer and singer. However, (2) of them was very successful, so the family had very (3) money. At one time they were (4) poor that he and his brother had to share one pair of shoes, and they had to take turns wearing them. The first time he himself earned money (5) dancing and singing, he was only five years old. He did many kinds of jobs, but what he loved (6) was working in the theatre.
When he was about 15 he joined a travelling theatre company and went on trips to America. On (7) such tour he was offered a part in a film, so he went to Hollywood, (8) he eventually became both an actor and a film director. He was known to be a perfectionist, and sometimes (9) the other actors repeat a scene many times (10) he was finally satisfied with it.
Many people found him difficult and someone accused him of (11) mean, but it was really his early experiences of poverty (12) made him careful with his money. He died in Switzerland in 1977, (13) the age of 88. (14) is now a statue of him in Leicester Square, London, the city of his (15) and early upbringing. His name was Charlie Chaplin.
Fill each the numbered blanks in the following passage with ONE suitable word.
A bus stopped (1) _____AT_________ a small village. A man looked (2) ________OUT______ of the window and (3) _______SAW_______ a woman (4) _________SELLING_____ cakes. The man wanted to buy a cake but the woman was far away from the (5) _______BUS_______. The man did not want to get out himself so he (6) ________ASKED______ a little boy (7) _______WHO_______ was standing near the bus, “How much does a cake (8) ___COST___________?” “Three pence, sir,” answered the boy. The man gave him six pence and (9) ______SAID________ to him, “Bring me a cake. And with the (10) ______REMAINING________ three pence buy one for (11) _____YOURSELF_________.”
A few minutes later the boy came (12) ______BACK________ eating a cake. He gave the man three pence change (13) _________VERY_____ said, “I am (14) _________VERY_____ sorry, sir, but there was only one cake (15) ______LEFT ________.”