Read the followingpassage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks

Earnest Hemingway was born in Oak park, a small town in the state of Illinois.As a boy he was often taken on frequently hunting and fishing trips (21)______ his father to Michigan (22)______ he soon got acquainted with the life of the Indians and such virtues as courage and endurance.After school Hemingway (23)______ as a newspaper reporter and then joined a volunteer ambulance unit to take part in World War I.After the war he came home (24)______ a hero.He lived for several years in Paris after that.He joined a group of expatriated American writers who considered (25)______ a lost generation.In Paris he published "Three Stories and Ten Poems" (1923)and "In Our Time" (1924) in which his own experiences of life are revealed, and which brought him fame immediately.

As a boy he was often taken on frequently hunting and fishing trips (21)______ his father