Exercise 8. Fill in each blank with a suitable word in the box.

However; made; best; was; much; leaving; wrote; lived; in; the;

One of the first novels in the history of literature (1) _______ written in England in 1719. It was Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Daniel Defoe was born (2) _______ London in the family of a rich man. When Daniel was a schoolboy, he began to write stories. After (3) _______ school, he worked in his father's shop and (4) _______ articles for newspapers. Defoe visited many countries and met many people. That helped him (5) _______ in his writings.

In 1719, when Defoe was sixty years old, he wrote the novel Robinson Crusoe which (6) _______ him famous. Defoe used in his book a true story about a sailor who (7) _______ on an island for four years. Robinson Crusoe, in Defoe's novel, lived on an island for twenty-eight years. People liked (8) _______ novel in England and in many other countries, Daniel Defoe wrote other books. (9) _______, his novel Robinson Crusoe was the (10) _______ famous. Defoe was not a rich man when he died in 1731.