题目内容：

阅读下面短文，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Newspapers printed stories that said it was easy 1.(become) rich. All you had to do was pick up the gold from the ground. Books and magazines told how to travel to the area and the best method of finding gold. 2., most of the information was false. It was not easy to find gold. It was 3.(extreme) hard to work under very difficult condition. The American4.(write) Jack was among the gold seekers. He became famous 5.writing about his experiences in Alaska Canada. He wrote a short story 6.(call) “The White Silence”, which perhaps best explains the terrible conditions of gold seekers(淘金者).

In the story, Jack explained how the extreme cold made the world seem 7.(die). It causes strange thoughts. He said the cold and silence of this frozen world 8.(seem) to increase a man’s fear of death. This cruel cold could make a man afraid of his own voice.

The story also told what could happen to a person who had an accident. There 9.(be) not many doctors in the gold fields. A seriously injured person could only expect to die. Jack’s many stories truthfully explained just 10. hard it was to be a gold seeker in eighteen ninety-seven.