Расставьте абзацы в логической последовательности

Расставьте абзацы в логической последовательности

Расставьте абзацы в логической последовательности

Расставьте абзацы в логической последовательности

1. Douglas Coupland is really an amazing contemporary writer; he paints a vivid picture with words like no one else. He really adequately shows generation X.

2. He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England. 2006 marks the premiere of the feature film “Everything’s Gone Green”, his first story written specifically for the screen and not adapted from any previous work.

3. Douglas Coupland is Canadian, born in a Canadian Air Force base near Baden-Baden, Germany, on December 30, 1961. In 1965 his family moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he continues to live and work. Coupland has studied art and design in Vancouver, Canada, Milan, Italy and Sapporo, Japan

4. His first novel, “Generation X”, was published in March of 1991. Since then he has published nine novels and several non-fiction books in 35 languages. There are some books that reflect the philosophy of the young: “Microserfs”, “Life after God”, “Girlfriend in a Coma”, “Hey, Nostradamus”, etc.

1. Roald Dahl (1916-1990), a well-known British writer, was born in 1916 in Wales. During World War II was a pilot. He was wounded and sent to Washington, D.C. to work in the Embassy. In Washigngton Dahl began writing and published his first book.

2. Dahl wrote short stories, novels and screenplays. His books have been translated into different languages. Some of them have been adapted for the screen, for example, The Gremlins.

3. This film was shown in Russia is not long ago. Many of Dahl’s books unexpected endings. His humour is often “black” because comic and tragic elements are mixed together.

4. Roald Dahl lived a long life and spent his last years in England. His books are bestsellers all over the world.

1. Queen Elizabeth I was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn.

2. When she was 3 months old she went to live at Ratfield, far from the King and the Queen. Her mother was executed by her father when the little girl was 2 and a half years old.

3. The young princess learnt Italian, French, Latin and Greek from royal tutors. She followed her half-brother Edward and her half-sister Mary to the throne.

4. She never married and ruled for 45 years as a strong and independent Queen. She was much loved by the people of England, and her reign was one of power and glory for her country.

1. Jonathan Swift, the famous English writer and the author of “Gulliver’s Travels”, was not very generous. He seldom gave anything to the servants on those who sent him presents. But once he received a lesson from a boy who very often carried him hares, partridges, and other game.

2. “Oh, very well, my boy”, replied the boy, “tell your master I am much obliged to him, and there is half a crown for yourself”. Swift laughed heartily, and gave the boy a crown for his wit.

3. One day the boy arrived with a heavy basket containing fish, fruit, and a game. He knocked at the door and Swift by chance opened it himself. “Here”, said the boy gruffly, “my master has sent you a basket full of things”.

4. Swift, feeling displeased at the boy’s rude manner, said to him: “Come here, my boy, and I will teach you how to deliver a message a little more politely; come, imagine yourself Jonathan Swift, and I will be the boy”. Then taking off his hat very politely, and addressing himself to the boy, he said. “Sir, my master sends you a little present, and begs you will do him the honor to accept it”.

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