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 long ______ over 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 ______.

   For about three years, I have been writing poetry. It was not until my junior year in high school that I developed an interest, love and skill in writing poetry.

Back in elementary school, I _____ to write stories. I would write stories on Post-it notes and anywhere I could. ____ , when I had to write a limerick (五行打油诗) for a _____ , I could not wrap my head around poetry. I had a very hard time figuring out how to _____ words and have the words make sense. ____, I tossed the paper with the _____ limerick into the trash. I did not try my _____ at poetry again until several years later.

In my freshman year of high school, my English teacher _____ a poetry project as a task. I still _____ my limerick task in elementary school and was ______ of doing the poetry project. For the project, we had to______ a poem and write a comment on it. I chose to ______ on Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice. I also wrote my own first poem. I became really ______ when writing the poem.

Two years later, I ______ writing poetry as a hobby and for fun. To ______ how good or bad my poems were, I handed them in to some magazines and ______ . I won second place in the North Carolina Poetry Society’s Sherry Pruitt Award Contest with a poem called The Ocean, and had my two poems ______ as high-merit poems. I have ______ to write poetry, and have even self-published three collections of poetry in both print and e-book formats (版式).

Now, I love writing poetry,______ I don’t hate writing short stories. I just find it more ______ and not my style of writing, though I still write short stories occasionally.