Henry was a pen name of an American（1）______of short stories.His（2）______name was William Sydney Porter.He was（3）______in North Carolina in 1862.（4）______a young boy he lived an exciting life.He did not go to school for very long,but he tried to teach（5）______everything he needed to know.
When he was about 20 years old,Henry went to Texas.There he tried different（6）______.He first worked for a newspaper,and then he had a job in a（7）______.When some money went missing from the bank,people believed he stole it.Because of that,the police（8）______him into prison.（9）______the three years in prison,he learned to write short stories.After he got out of prison,he went to New York and went on writing.
Henry wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there.People liked his stories,because they were(10)______to understand and they would finish with a sudden change at the end,to the reader\’s surprise.
| （1） | A.clerk | B.teacher | C.writer | D.doctor |
| （2） | A.pen | B.old | C.real | D.last |
| （3） | A.bore | B.born | C.bored | D.boring |
| （4） | A.To | B.For | C.As | D.Since |
| （5） | A.myself | B.himself | C.herself | D.themselves |
| （6） | A.food | B.ways | C.jobs | D.rooms |
| （7） | A.bank | B.school | C.hospital | D.shop |
| （8） | A.asked | B.sent | C.let | D.led |
| （9） | A.During | B.As | C.With | D.Before |
| (10) | A.easy | B.difficult | C.creative | D.hard |