题目内容：

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Creator of Middle Earth

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, better known as J. R. R. Tolkien, was born in 1892 in South Africa. His parents had moved there looking for 1. better job for his father. Three years 2.(late), his mother took him on a trip to England to visit family. While they were away, they received terrible news that his father had died.

3.(grow ) up without a father must have been difficult for Tolkien. Worse still, when he was only twelve years old, his mother also passed away. As a child, he had a great passion for language and in 1908, he went to Oxford University 4.(study) languages and literature. In 1915, he joined the army and fought in the battle against the Germans. But soon, he became too ill to fight and returned 5. England the following year. He didn’t have a 6.(satisfy) childhood himself, so around in 1933, he spent much time telling his children fantasy 7.(story) of a hobbit (霍比特人) called Bilbo. He first put it in writing in 1936, 8. turned out to be a surprising hit. The publisher asked him to write another. He did so and in 1948 published The Lord of the Rings, which 9.(publish) in three volumes between 1954 and 1955.

Tolkien, 10.(age) eighty-one, died in 1973.