2.短文填空.用下面方框中单词的适当形式填入短文空格内,使短文意思通顺正确

2.短文填空.用下面方框中单词的适当形式填入短文空格内,使短文意思通顺正确
instead, take, America, hate, clean, sign,
invent, around, find, happy rich, paper
What to children love and teachers __*1___? Chewing gum.People who work in schools say it ____*2___ half an hour every day to take the gum off chairs and tables.People have chewed gum for a long time.Scientists in Sweden found a piece of chewing gum that is 9,000 years old.It had the tooth marks of a teenager on it ! but modern chewing gum was first made ____*3_1870.Thomas Adams, an ___*4__, got some liquid from a tree in Mexico.He wanted to make rubber, but __*5__ he found a way to make chewing gum.Adams's gum was a big success.And soon other people began to make gum.In 1892, William Wrigley started to make gum.He sent pieces of gum to listed people in the US.phone books.People began to chew his gum, and he became one of ____*6_ people in the USA.Today the Wrigley company makes one billion sticks of gum a year.____*7__ chew more than 90,000 tons of gum every year.Teenagers between 12 to 14 years old chew about 40 percent more of the gum than people in other states.Some people aren’t ___*8__ about this much gum.People who worked at the Statue of Liberty(自由女神
像)thought there was too much gum ___*9___ up, so they put in a trash can.The trash can had a sign over it.“ Put your gum here.” Many people put their gum on the __*10____!

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