Here are suitable words to fill in the blanks:

1. **was**
2. **in**
3. **he**
4. **wrote**
5. **much**
6. **made**
7. **lived**
8. **the**
9. **written**
10. **most**

The completed text would read as follows:

One of the first novels in the history of literature (1) **was** written in England in 1719. It was Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Daniel Defoe was born (2) **in** London in the family of a rich man. When Daniel was a schoolboy, (3) **he** began to write stories. After (4) **school**, he worked in his father's shop and (5) **wrote** articles for newspapers. Defoe visited many countries and met many people. That helped him (6) **much** in his writings.

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