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   Karl Marx was born in Germany on May 5th, 1818. ____ he was a child, he was forced to leave his country again and again. He lived in Belgium, England and some other ____ .

His mother tongue was German and at school he ____ French and English, but he felt his English was poor. So he ____ up his mind to improve his English. He began to work hard ____ it. He made so much progress ____ he could soon read English newspapers and write English articles.

However, there were ____ things that he thought were too difficult for him—the grammar and some of the idioms （习语）. He often encouraged himself by saying “ ____ I keep on trying, I’ll make even greater progress.” At the same time, his close friend, Engels, often wrote to ____ him for his hard work in learning English.

In one of Marx’s books, he gave people who were learning a foreign language some ____ on how to learn it well. He said a foreign language was necessary for a person to have a ____ future. He said a person should translate every word he heard into the foreign language he was learning. If he could do this, it would be ____ for him to use the language freely.

In April, 1841, he ____ his doctor’s degree. After that, he began to write articles for a newspaper. He wrote about the housing problems of poor people and their hard life. ____ he tried, he did his best.

During the 1840s, Marx and Engels wrote a book together. These words of theirs became very ____ : “Working people of all countries, unit (联合)! ”