第二节 完形填空 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 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
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that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of . “What‟s that?” he asked. “That‟s the said the boy. Robert suddenly something of an adventure story in the boy‟s 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 the greatest stories in the English language.