2. Read the text carefully, than match sentences a-g below with gaps 1-7. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
1. he was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, ant entered Princeton University in 1913. In 1917 he left before graduating to join the US Army. While stationed in Alabama, he met and became engaged to Zelda Sayre, who also had ambitions to be a writer.
2. he moved to New York and worked briefly for an advertising agency. In the same year, he sold his first short story, Babes in the Wood. In the story, the hero, like Fitzgerald, goes to Princeton before joining the army (unlike Fitzgerald, the character gets sent to France to fight in the First World War) and then in advertising. 3., Fitzgerald returned to St. Paul and rewrote a novel he had started in the army, This Side of Paradise, which was published in 1920 and was an immediate success.
4., Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre were married in 1920, and two years later they moved to Great Neck, New York. Living in this rich community gave Fitzgerald a lot of material for his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. Although he was writing and publishing stories and novels, the couple needed to live more cheaply, so in 1924 they moved to Europe. While they were living there, Fitzgerald`s greatest novel, The Great Gatsby, was published.
5., the Fitzgeralds travelled back and forth between Europe and the States several times. For a couple of periods he worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter, and he later returned to take up a well- paid contract with a film studio. Despite his talents as a writer, he only completed one film script before being sacked because of his problems with alcohol.
6. because she was suffering from mental health problems and living in a hospital. Although they never got divorced, he started a relationship with a journalist, and it was in her apartment that he died of a heart attack in 1940. Zelda outlived him by eight years but died tragically in a fire in the mental hospital where she was living.
7. the Fitzgeralds represented the 1920s jazz age. They were both talented people, and F. Scott Fitzgerald is thought to be one of the USA`s finest novelist. Sadly, they both had problems which some people think destroyed them and wasted their talents.
a. In the following years.
b. After he left the army in 1919.
c. American novelist and short storywriter.
d. Encouraged by the success of the story.
e. By the mid 1930s, he and Zelda were living separately.
f. With their good looks and wild lifestyle.
g. After a turbulent romance.
the first christian church was built on the augusteon market square in the 4th century under emperor constantine. in the case of socrates scholastic, the construction of the first temple, called sophia, belongs to the reign of emperor constantius. according to n. p. kondakov, constantius only expanded the construction of constantine. socrates scholastic tells the exact date of the temple's blessing: after building eudoxia to the episcopal throne of the capital, the great church, known as sophia, was consecrated, what happened in the tenth consulate of constance and the third caesar julian, on the fifteenth day of the month of february.
i love visiting museums. museums are a separate world. i think people visit museums because there is something else that you will not meet in everyday life. a change of scenery always attracts people. in my life, museums occupy a large place. i love very much historical and memorial, art museums, museums, estates. of course, visiting museums develops and allows you to receive some new knowledge.thanks to visiting the museum of the battle of borodino, i learned about the invasion napoleon's troops in russia, about commander-in-chief of the russian army michael kutuzov, about commander bagration and barclay de tolly. doom five hundred thousand invasions and the death of napoleonic france.
я люблю відвідувати музеї. музеї - це окремий світ. я думаю, що люди відвідують музеї, тому що є щось інше, що ви не зустрінете в повсякденному житті. зміна пейзажу завжди приваблює людей. у моєму житті музеї займають велике місце. я дуже люблю історико-меморіальні, художні музеї, музеї, садиби. звичайно, відвідування музеїв розвивається і дозволяє отримати нові знання. завдяки відвідуванню музею бородінської битви, я дізнався про вторгнення військ наполеона в росію, про головнокомандувача російської армії михайла кутузова, про багратіон і барклай де толлі. загинули п'ятьсот тисяч вторгнень і смерть наполеонівської франції.