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
   As there were no      Father Patrauld      He had no taste      He was justly proud      His superior intelligence      However, after Bonaparte      I must confess      If the monks      It is only surprising      The monks were incapable      The often      The other professors      These two new professors      Unfortunately   
, our mathematical professor, was much attached to Bonaparte. of him as a pupil. , in whose classes he was not distinguished, took little notice of him. for the study of languages, polite literature, or the arts. indications of his ever becoming a scholar, the pedants of the establishment were inclined to think him stupid. was, however, sufficiently perceptible, even through the reserve under which it was veiled. to whom the superintendence of the establishment was confided had understood the organisation of his mind, if they had engaged more able mathematical professors, or if we had had any incitement to the study of chemistry, natural philosophy, astronomy, etc., I am convinced that Bonaparte would have pursued these sciences with all the genius and spirit of investigation which he displayed in a career, more brilliant it is true, but less useful to mankind. , the monks did not perceive this, and were too poor to pay for good masters. left the college they found it necessary to engage two professors
from Paris, otherwise the college would have fallen to nothing. , MM. Durfort and Desponts, finished my education; and I regretted that they did not come sooner. -repeated assertion of Bonaparte having received a careful education at Brienne is therefore untrue. of giving it him; and, for my own part, that the extended information of the present day is to me a painful contrast with the limited course of education I received at the Military College. that the establishment should have produced a single able man.


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