Choose the suitable word to fill in each plank.

John Lennon, (16)_______ member of the Beatles, (17)  ____ murdered just before 11 p.m (18)   ____ the 8th December 1980, outside his home in New York City. He had just got out of a car, and was walking to the entrance (19) ____ a voice called "Mr Lennon". Lennon turned and (20) ____ five times. The killer threw his gun down, and stood there smiling. Lennon was (21)_____ to hospital in a police patrol car, but it was (22) ____late. The killer was 25-year-old Mark Chapman from Hawaii. Earlier the same evening he had asked Lennon for his autograph. (23) ____ fact, he had been hanging around outside the apartment building for several days. Chapman

was a (24) _____ of the Beatles and Lennon, and had tried to imitated him in many ways. It is (25) _____that he even believed he was John Lennon.

John Lennon, (16)_______ member of the Beatles,