The True Story of Treasure Island
It was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson's imagination. ____, recent research has found the true story of this exciting work.
Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived____ for many years. In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a. With him were his American wife Fanny and his son___.
Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a longover the hills. They had been ____ this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain, Lloyd felt the days____. To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some ____.
One morning , the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island. Robert __ that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of ___. 'What's that?' he asked. 'That's the __ treasure,' said the boy. Robert suddenly ____something of an adventure story in the boy’s __ . While the rain was pouring, Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the __ a twelve-year-old boy, just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate(海盗)?
Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the ____ of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to____ such a man in a story. ___ Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was ____.
So, thanks to a______ September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg, and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of greatest _____ stories in the English language.
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