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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Howard Carter is ①.______ of the most famous explorers the world has ever known. He was ②.______ (bravely) and loved to visit and explore new places. During his life, he discovered many ③.______ (amaze) things.
Howard Carter did not go to school but ④______ (learn) to draw from his father, ⑤______ was an artist. He was bright and curious ⑥.______ the world outside his hometown. In 1891, ⑦.______ the age of 17, he set sail for Alexandria, Egypt. By the 1920s he had become ⑧.______ explorer searching for the tombs of the Egyptian kings. He found several important ones. Inside the tombs he discovered a great fortune in jewels, gold along with the ⑨.______ (preserve) bodies of dead kings. These preserved bodies are known ⑩.______ mummies.