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O. Henry was the name used by William Sidney Porter. He was        in Greensboro, North Carolina in eighteen sixty-two. His mother died when he was three years old. He        school at the age of fifteen to work in his uncle’s drug store. He        to Texas five years later. He lived in the city of Austin where he          married, worked in a local bank and        a weekly newspaper.
William Sidney Porter had bad        in Texas. His wife became sick, their baby died and his newspaper         . Then he was accused of        money from the bank where he worked. He fled to Honduras, but returned to be with his       wife. She died in eighteen ninety-seven. Porter was       to prison. That is where he started to      . His first story was published in a national magazine in eighteen ninety-eight. After being       from prison in nineteen oh-one, Porter went to New York City. He published more stories, all under the name O. Henry. No one really knows where he got that name.
O. Henry's first book was a short story collection called “Cabbages and Kings”. It was published in nineteen-oh-four. O. Henry published thirteen other        of short stories. He wrote six hundred stories during his life. He wrote so        that he could complete about one story a week.
Porter tried to forget his       , but could not. He did not have any good friends. He began to drink too much alcohol. A second marriage failed. He died of tuberculosis in New York City in nineteen ten. He was forty-eight years old.

A.born B.lived C.died D.buried

A.attended B.left C.finished D.taught

A.related B.referred C.returned D.moved

A.got B.changed C.felt D.turned

A.read B.owned C.bought D.booked

A.day B.habit C.luck D.future

A.failed B.influenced C.spread D.appeared

A.stopping B.robbing C.losing D.stealing

A.lovely B.careful C.ill D.sick

A.sentenced B.attached C.accused D.caught

A.wonder B.write C.worry D.sink

A.fled B.released C.driven D.forced

A.collections B.films C.plays D.works

A.interestingly B.well C.quickly D.richly

A.past B.mistake C.shortcomings D.stories

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A.taking B.bringing C.going D.coming

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