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05.05.2021 09:50 •  Английский язык

Кто шарит в английском Choose the correct version.

1. After working in the Klondike, Jack London returned home and began (publish/ published/publishing) stories.

2. As a teen, he (ride/rode/riding) trains, pirated oysters, shoveled coal, worked on a sealing ship on the Pacific and found employment in a cannery.

3. In his free time he hunkered down at (libraries/theatres/pubs), soaking up novels and travel books.

4. His life as a (journalist/writer/political commentator) essentially began in 1893.

5. In one of his sealing voyage, a terrible typhoon (had nearly taken out/nearly took out/had nearly took out) Jack London and his crew.

6. After (trying/try/tried) to seek a small fortune in the gold rush, Jack London returned to California and briefly enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley.

7. Jack London’s own (poverty/wealth/prosperity) and that of the struggling men and women he encountered pushed him to embrace socialism.

8. Jack London found fame and some fortune at the age of 27 with his novel (The Sea-Wolf / The Call of the Wild / White Fang), which told the story of a dog that finds its place in the world as a sled dog.

9. By the way, Jack London frequently lectured about the problems (associated/involved/concerned) with capitalism.

10. For much of the last decade of his life, London (facing/faced/face) a number of health issues.