Missing Sentence Beginnings - 4

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
   "This being done," said he,      Bonaparte's mind was directed      During some of his vacations      He turned his attention      I well remember that I was      It is almost unnecessary      It is now very well known      Of this his subsequent      The proposal which was received      This little sham war   
"we may divide ourselves into sections, form a siege, and Iwill undertake to direct the attacks." with enthusiasm, was
immediately put into execution. was carried on for the space of a fortnight, and did not cease until a quantity of gravel and small stones having got mixed with the snow of which we made our bullets, many of the combatants, besiegers as well as besieged, were seriously wounded. one of the worst sufferers from this sort of grapeshot fire.
to contradict the story about the ascent in the balloon. that the hero of that headlong adventure was not young Bonaparte, as has been alleged, but one of his comrades, Dudont de Chambon, who was somewhat eccentric. conduct afforded sufficient proofs.

to objects of a totally different kind. to political science. he enjoyed the society of the Abby Raynal, who used to converse with him on government, legislation, commercial relations, etc.


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