There were very few places in the world that Jules Verne, the writer, did not visit. He went round the world a hundred times or more. Once he did it in eighty days, heard of in the nineteenth (1) ______ century. He voyaged sixty thousands miles under the sea, whizzed (2) ______ around the moon, explored the center of the earth, and chatted with natives in Australia. Jules Verne, the man, was stay-at-home. He was more apt (3)______ to be tired from writers’ cramp than from traveling. He did make a few visits to Europe and North Africa. And he made one six-week tour of New York State. But that was all. He spent less than one of his seventy-seven years really traveling. Yet he was the world’s most extraordinary tourist. His books are crowded with =hunting and fishing expedition. (4) ______ Jules actually went hunting only once. Then he raised his gun and shot the game warden’s hat ! (5) ______ He never held a test tube in his hand. But he was an inspiration to the scientist in the laboratory. Long before radio was invented, he had TV working in his books. His name of it was phono-telephoto. (6) ______ He had helicopters fifty years before the Wright brothers flew their first plane at Kitty Hawk. In fact, there were a few wonders (7) ______ of the twentieth century that this man of the nineteenth century did not forestall. In his stories you can read about neon lights, (8)______ moving sidewalks, air conditioning, skyscrapers, guide missiles, (9) ______ tanks, electrically operated submarines, and airplanes. Many people took his ideas seriously. One reason was that he wrote about these marvels With such exact detail.. Learned men (10) ______ would argue with him. Experts in mathematics would spend weeks checking his figures. When his book about going to the moon was published, five hundred persons volunteered for the next expedition.