Missing Sentence Beginnings - 1

Gap-fill exercise 1

Exercise by Dr Michael A.Riccioli

In the following passages some sentence beginnings have been removed. Skim through the passage to have a general idea of what the text is about. Your task is to reconstruct the text by filling each gap with the correct sentence beginning listed in the exercise, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints!

N.B.
skim reading = reading rapidly to get the main idea of the passage
scanning = reading rapidly to find specific information or facts in the passage
extensive reading = reading for your pleasure or for general understanding
intensive reading = reading for detailed understanding
   He always told me      He signed Buonaparte      His motives for so doing      It has been affirmed that he was      Napoleon Bonaparte was born      The false and absurd charge      This is   
at Ajaccio, in Corsica, on the 15th of August 1769; the original
orthography of his name was Buonaparte, but he suppressed the "u" during his first campaign in Italy.
were merely to render the spelling conformable with the pronunciation, and to
abridge his signature. even after the famous 13th Vendemiaire.

born in 1768, and that he represented himself to be a year younger than
he really was. untrue. the 9th of August was his birthday, and, as I was born on
the 9th of July 1769, our proximity of age served to strengthen our union and friendship when we were
both at the Military College of Brienne.

of Bonaparte having misrepresented his age, is decidedly refuted by a note
in the register of M. Berton, sub-principal of the College of Brienne, in which it is stated that M.
Napoleon de Buonaparte, ecuyer, born in the city of Ajaccio, in Corsica, on the 15th of August 1769, left
the Royal Military College of Brienne on the 17th October 1784.

Source:
"Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"
by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
His Private Secretary
Volume I. - 1769-1800
1891