Part 2 : Supply the correct form of verbs in the blank. (1 point)
Mark Twain, the author of the The Adventure of Tom Sawyer, is one of America’s best-loved storytellers. He (1. grow up) ___________ in a small town on the Mississippi River. As a young boy, he greatly (2. admire) ___________ the pilots of the riverboats and dreamed of being a riverboat pilot on the mighty river. He pursued his dream, and by the age of 22, he himself (3. become) ___________ a riverboat pilot. Later in life, when he (4. become) ________________ a writer, many of his stories (5. contain) ___________ elements of his own experiences. He wrote many humorous stories and articles about life on the Mississippi River before he (6. die) ___________ in 1910 at the age of 74. Sadly, Twain (7. work) _______________ on a new story for several months before his death, but he (8. never finish) ___________ it. Over the years since his death, his boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, (9. become) ___________ a favorite place for Americans to visit (10. learn) ___________ about Twain and life on the Mississippi at the turn of the 19th century
