Listen to the recording read by Frank McCourt himself and fill in the blanks.When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a (1) __________ childhood: the happy childhood is hardly (2)_______ your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable (3)______ childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.People everywhere brag (自夸) and whimper about the woes (不幸) of their early years, but (4)_________ can compare with the Irish version: the (5)________; the shiftless loquacious (多话的) alcoholic (喝过酒) (6) _________ ; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous (自负的) priests; bullying schoolmaster (校长); the (7)_________ and the terrible things they did to us for (8)______ hundred long years.