[综合题]从下列单词中选择适当的词填空,每个词只能用一次。

clerk        in        looking           news           on           spent

started    took    were               which          without   won

     Bill Grant was a famous American newspaper editor. He worked for the same newspaper from 1926 through 1968. He ______ as a clerk but by 1948 he had become the editor, ______ was the position he held until he retired.      Bill wrote his first story for the newspaper ______ the day the New York Stock Market crashed in 1929. Two of the newspaper’s writers ______ thirty miles away from town ______ into an airplane crash and the other was in San Francisco investigating Chinatown. When the ______ of the stock market crash came into the office Bill immediately sat down and write up the story. The editor liked it so much that he used the story ______ making any change in it. After that the editor decided that Bill should be a writer, not a ______ .      After this first story Bill became especially interested in financial news, though he wrote stories on just about everything. In 1945 he ______ five months in Europe and wrote stories about the end of World War II.      One of Bill’s greatest moments came in 1946. A story he had written about the war ______ the National Newspaperman’s Award. Bill took the prize but gave all the credit to his editor. 

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