Charles Dickens，one of the great English writers，  1  born in l812，in one of the small  2  of England．

    When Dickens was nine years old，the family  3 to London，the capital of England．There were several young children in the family．Their life was hard，so Dickens could not  4 to school．

    Only until his father was  5  of prison(监狱)could Charles go to school．At that time he was already twelve years old．But he did not finish school．Two years later be began  6．The future(未来)writer often went to the library  7  books．He read  8 ．Then Dickens wrote lots of novels(小说)all his life．Dickens  9  over a hundred years ago，but people are still reading his books  10  great interest．

1．A．is                          B．was                     C．were

2．A．town                     B．towns                  C．family

3．A．moves                   B．moved                 C．moving

4．A．go                         B．to go                    C．going

5．A．out                        B．at                        C．off

6．A．works                    B．worked                C．to work

7．A．read                      B．reading                C．to read

8．A．a lot                      B．a lot of                 C．very much

9．A．died                      B．die                       C．dying

10．A．to                        B．in                        C．with