Missing Sentence Beginnings - 3

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 great deal has      Among other things      An anonymous publication      Bonaparte himself laughed      Bonaparte was undoubtedly      During the winter of      He had no alternative      He has been described in terms      I have seen an authentic account      I remember the circumstances      It is ever thus with      Napoleon, weary of      On this subject   
a man of good family. of his genealogy, which he obtained from Tuscany.
been said about the civil dissensions which forced his family to quit Italy and take refuge in Corsica. I shall say nothing.
(...)
of enthusiastic praise and exaggerated condemnation. individuals who by talent or favourable
circumstances are raised above their fellow-creatures. at all the stories which were got up for the purpose of embellishing or
blackening his character in early life. , entitled the 'History of Napoleon Bonaparte', from his Birth to his last abdication,
contains perhaps the greatest collection of false and ridiculous details about his boyhood. , it is stated that he fortified a garden to protect
himself from the attacks of his comrades, who, a few lines lower down, are described as treating him with esteem and respect.
which, probably, gave rise to the fabrication inserted in the work just mentioned; they were as follows: 1783-84, so memorable for heavy falls of snow, Napoleon was greatly at a loss for those retired walks and outdoor recreations in which he used to take much delight. but to mingle with his comrades, and, for exercise, to walk with them up and down a spacious
hall. this monotonous promenade, told his comrades that he thought they might amuse themselves much better with the snow, in the great courtyard, if they would get shovels and make hornworks, dig trenches, raise parapets, cavaliers, etc.

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