阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或所给单词的提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的词，要求所填的词意义准确、形式正确，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。
One day, a young man put an ad in most of the newspapers in England. He said that his parents 1 (give) him millions of pounds. He graduated from Oxford University. Everyone knows this is one of the 2 famous universities in the world. So he had got great education there. He would like a girl to be his 3 [waɪf]. The girl must be like the one in the books written 4 Maugham because Maugham was his favorite.
This ad was read and known 5 (quick) by parents and young girls all over the country. Parents went to the shops to look 6 the books. They bought those books for 7 [ðeə(r)] daughters as presents. Girls also tried to get those books to read. They wanted to know 8 kind of person the writer liked so that they could marry the young man. Of course, all the books written by Maugham were 9 (sell) out in a short time and the writer became famous.
Can you guess who the young man was? It was Maugham himself! What a 10 [ˈklevə(r)] man he was!
