Missing Sentence Beginnings - 5

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
   But you do not      During play-hours      Generally speaking      He often said      He was also fond      He was not social      His country's recent submission      I often went off      I, however, was almost      The temper of the   
, Bonaparte was not much liked by his comrades at Brienne. with them, and rarely took part in their amusements. to France always caused in his mind a painful feeling, which estranged him from his schoolfellows. his constant companion. he used to withdraw to the library, where he-read with deep interest works of history, particularly Polybius and Plutarch. of Arrianus, but did not care much for Quintus Gurtius. to play with my comrades, and left him by himself in the library.

young Corsican was not improved by the teasing he frequently experienced from his comrades, who were fond of ridiculing him about his Christian name Napoleon and his country. to me, "I will do these French all the mischief I can;" and when I tried to pacify him he would say, " ridicule me; you like me."

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