Missing Sentence Beginnings - 2

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
   A memorial addressed      His family was poor, and he was educated      Lucien was not received      The Minister wrote on the back      The object of this memorial      The stories about his low      Two brothers cannot be placed      When Napoleon was fifteen   
extraction are alike devoid of foundation. at the public expense, an advantage of which many honourable families availed themselves. by his father, Charles Buonaparte, to the Minister of War states that his fortune had been reduced by the failure of some
enterprise in which he had engaged, and by the injustice of the Jesuits, by whom he had been deprived of an inheritance. was to solicit a sub-lieutenant's
commission for Napoleon, who was then fourteen years of age, and to get Lucien entered a pupil of the Military College. of the memorial,
"Give the usual answer, if there be a vacancy;" and on the margin are these words ---"This gentleman has been informed that his request is inadmissible as long as his second son remains at the
school of Brienne. at the same time in the military schools." he was sent to Paris until he should attain the requisite age for entering the army.
into the College of Brienne, at least not until his brother had quitted the Military School of Paris.

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