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return  although alone     right   whether  respond 

I have always admired people like artists, writers and composers for being able to work on their own, with no one else around.Most of my friends all work with other people in shops and so on, and they tell me that they would never get51done if they worked52 .I’m not sure that all artists and writers do,53. 

I was born in a small village in the country where everyone knew everyone else:that is, they knew everyone54a writer who kept himself to himself. By the time I was old enough to learn people’s names,he had been living in the village for at least twenty years, but the villagers still55him as a stranger! Every morning he would walk down to the local shops and do his shopping, and56he used to greet everyone he met, only two or three would57his greetings. Just occasionally, someone would feel curious(好奇的)enough to ask him what he was doing, and every time his answer would be the same : “I,m still writing the book. It should have been finished last year, but I can’t get it58.”And that was all we ever learned about him. 

Because no one had ever visited his house, either, I remember once going up to the house with three or four other boys to see59we could see what he did.We crept(慢慢地爬)up the window trembling and looked in, expecting to see our writer typing furiously (拼命地) at his desk.60, he was sitting in an armchair reading a book.