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Robeson was born in a very poor family. At seven, he had to pick coal in a deserted mine near his home, then he sold __1__ he had picked and earned a few coins to help his parents. He had __2__ schooling, for being so poor, how could they __3__ school fees?
When he was fifteen, he worked __4__ a servant in a school. Looking at other children studying in the classroom, he felt __5__ for himself. How he __6__ to have the same chance! He decided to study by __7__. In the daytime, after the sweeping and cleaning was over, he __8__ stand by the window outside the classroom trying to catch what the teacher said. At night, he tried his best to remember what he __9__ during the day. He worked __10__ hard at his lessons that he sometimes had just three or four hours to sleep. The more he learned, the greater __11__ he showed in his lessons. A math teacher discovered him and came to like this diligent boy and __12__ him to sit at the back of the classroom. In one exam, he was the __13__ one in the whole school who reached the highest grade. He would have been given the scholarship __14__ he had been a regular student of the school.
Robeson __15__ rough six long years with his study of math and wrote several articles which
