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From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages 【M1】______ of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the conscience that I was outraging my 【M2】______ true nature and that soon or later I should have to settle down 【M3】______ and write books. I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on the either side, and I barely saw my father 【M4】______ before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeing mannerisms which 【M5】______ made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginative persons, and I think from the 【M6】______ very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the feeling 【M7】______ of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I 【M8】______ felt that this created a sort of private world which I could get 【M9】______ my own back for my failure in everyday life. Therefore the 【M10】______ volume of serious — i.e. seriously intended — writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.