. Complete the story with the words and phrases below.Useful, under the pen name, novels,...

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. Complete the story with the words and phrases below.

Useful, under the pen name, novels, the title, short stories, own, to earn his living, to become, succeeded in, used to, the glory.

Charles Dickens: a man of letters.
A great British writer Charles Dickens ___________ showing feelings and thoughts of a child in his _________ and __________________.
Dickens’s ______ childhood began in a very little house near Portsmouth in 1812. As a child he got to know happiness with his family and unhappy years in London.
At 15 he began _________________ as an office boy. He wanted ________ a journalist. He spent much time in the Reading Room of the British Museum educating himself. Later he ___________ say that the time spent there was the most ___________ time of his life.
Dickens became one of the best reporters of London. At the same time he tried himself as a writer of short stories _________________ of “Boz”.
In 1836 he published his stories under ___________ “Sketches by Boz”.
This was the beginning of the great British writer, _____________ of the British literature.

Answer 1

Useful, under the pen name, novels, the title, short stories, own, to earn his living, to become, succeeded in, used to, the glory.

Charles Dickens: a man of letters.
A great British writer Charles Dickens succeeded in showing feelings and thoughts of a child in his novels and short stories.
    Dickens’s own childhood began in a very little house near Portsmouth in 1812. As a child he got to know happiness with his family and unhappy years in London.
    At 15 he began to earn his living as an office boy. He wanted to become a journalist. He spent much time in the Reading Room of the British Museum educating himself. Later heused to say say that the time spent there was the most useful time of his life.
    Dickens became one of the best reporters of London. At the same time he tried himself as a writer of short stories under the pen name of “Boz”.
In 1836 he published his stories under the title “Sketches by Boz”. 
This was the beginning of the great British writer, the glory of the British literature.