X. Exercise 3: Gap-filling. (20 points)
Read the text below and think of one word which best fits each space.
Charlie Chaplin was born in a very poor part of London. (1) ................ father was comedian
and his mother worked (2) .................... a dancer and a singer. (3) ......... of them was
successful so the family had very (4) ..................... money. The (5) ……………… time he
himself earned money by dancing and singing, he was only five years old. He did many kinds
of jobs, but what he loved (6) ..................... was working in the theatre.
When he was (7) ..................... fifteen, he joined a traveling theatre company and
went on trips to America. On (8) ..................such tour, he was (9) ................... a part in a film,
so he went to Hollywood, where he eventually became both a famous actor and film director.
He died in Switzerland in 1977, at the age of 88. There is now a statue of him in Leicester
Square, London, the city of his (10) ..................... and early up-bringing.