PAUL SAID THAT HE IS ENJOYING AN INTERESTING FILM ON TV THE NIGHT...

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Paul said that he is enjoying an interesting film on TV the night before.

Read the passage and choose one correct option to each blank.

In 1857, ______(27) the age of twenty-two, Sam Clemens boarded a steamboat and headed to New Orleans. He planned

______(28) a trip to South America. Instead, he met the steamboat pilot Horace Bixby, ______(29) agreed to let Clemens train with

him as a riverboat pilot for a fee of five hundred dollars. For the next two years, Clemens learned ______(30) to pilot a riverboat on

the Mississippi River. He gained his piloting license in April 1859 and made a good living until the outbreak of the Civil War in April

1861 when all commercial traffic on the river stopped. Clemens then joined the Marion Rangers, a group of Confederate volunteers

______(31) disbanded after only two weeks.