Choose the correct word that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 16 to 25: Charles Dickens is a famous (1) in the English language. He wrote about the real world of England and many of the people in his books (2) not rich, but poor and hungry.
Charles Dickens’s family lived in London and his father worked in (3) office. It was a good job, but he always spent a lot of money and often there was (4) money to buy food. There were eight children in the family, (5) life was hard.
Charles went to school and his teachers thought he was very clever. But when Charles was only eleven, his father (6) all his money and the family left their house. Charles got a (7) washing bottles. He worked ten hours a day and he (8) six shillings (30p) a week. Every night, after work, he walked four miles (9) to his room. Charles hated it and never forgot it. He used it in (10) books, for example David Copperfield and Oliver Twist.