阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。
"After walking through the mirror,
many strange things happened to Alice. One day, she{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (meet) a unicorn(独角兽).'What－is－this? 'the unicorn asked its friend. 'That
is a child,' {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (reply)the friend. 'Ah,' said the unicorn, I always thought they were fabulous
monsters(传说中的怪兽)! Is it alive？'Alice then said, "Do
you know,' I always thought unicorns, were fabulous monsters {#blank#}3{#/blank#}? I never saw one alive before!'"
Fifty years before Lewis Carroll
(1832-1898) wrote{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (he) stories about Alice, many people still believed
in the myth (神话) of unicorns. But in the early nineteenth century, a French{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (science) named Baron Cuvier showed that
unicorns were only a {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (product) of imagination.
For hundreds of years before that,
things were very different. Everybody{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (believe) that unicorns were
real, but very few people saw them. Julius Caesar, who built the Roman Empire,
ever said that the animal had the head of a deer, the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (foot) of an elephant and a one-meter-long
horn on its forehead. Marco Polo, who thought he saw a unicorn in India, agreed
that it had elephants' feet and a horn, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} said it had a pig's head. He was almost
certainly describing a rhinoceros(犀牛)! By the sixteenth
century，when books about animals were {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (become)very
popular, everyone agreed that the unicorn looked like a white horse with a horn.
