You are going to read a text on the life of a famous person. For questions 1-15, read the text below and decide which answer (А, В, or С) best fits each gap.
Jane Austen is an English writer who (1) first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. In her novels, Austen created the comedy of manners of middle-class life in the England of her time.
Jane Austen was born in the Hampshire village of Steventon, where her father, the Reverend George Austen, was rector. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight: six boys and two girls. Her closest companion (2) her life was her elder sister, Cassandra, who also remained unmarried. Their father was a scholar who encouraged the love (3) learning in his children. His wife, Cassandra (née Leigh), was a woman of ready wit, (4) for her impromptu verses and stories. The great family amusement was acting.
Jane Austen’s lively and affectionate family circle provided a stimulating context for her writing. (5) , her experience was carried far beyond Steventon rectory by an extensive network of relationships by blood and friendship. She (6) to use this world in the settings, characters, and (7) matter of her novels.
Her repeated fable of a young woman’s voyage to self-discovery on the passage through love to marriage focuses upon easily recognizable aspects of life. (8) is this concentration upon character and personality and upon the tensions between her heroines and their society (9) relates her novels more (10) to the modern world (11) to the traditions of the 18th century. This modernity, together with the wit, realism, and timelessness of her prose style; her shrewd, amused sympathy; and the satisfaction (12) in stories so skillfully told, in novels so beautifully constructed help to explain her continuing (13) readers of all kinds.
Modern critics remain fascinated by the commanding structure and organization of the novels, by the triumphs of technique that (14) the writer to (15) bare the tragicomedy of existence in stories of which the events and settings are apparently so ordinary.
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A. a
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B. the
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C. –
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2
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A. through
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B. throughout
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C. of
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3
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A. of
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B. with
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C. at
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4
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A. learned
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B. owned
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C. famed
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5
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A. But
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B. Moreover
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C. Despite
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6
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A. was
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B. was got
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C. was being
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A. topic
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B. object
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C. subject
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8
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A. This
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B. It
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C. That
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A. that
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B. who
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C. what
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10
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A. close
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B. closed
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C. closely
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A. that
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B. than
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C. then
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A. to be found
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B. to find
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C. finding
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A. attraction to
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B. appeal for
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C. pleasure in
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A. ensure
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B. ensue
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C. enable
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A. lie
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B. lay
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C. be laid
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