Вопрос № 636976 - Английский язык

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Stratford-on Avon is the birthplace of the great English poet and writer _____.

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Which famous writer was born in Stratford-upon-Avon?

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Martin Luther King: A man of peace
Martin Luther King, Jr, was the son of a black Baptist pastor. His mother was a schoolteacher. Young Martin spent a fairly 1 _____ childhood in Atlanta, Georgia. After high school, he 2 _____ to college and studied to be a pastor, like his father. 3 _____ could have guessed, in those days, the place in history that Martin Luther King, Jr, was to have. It all started in Montgomery. The buses in Montgomery were segregated. Black people had to sit in the back of the bus. One day, a black woman, Rosa Parks, was returning home 4 _____ a hard day's work. She sat in the front of the bus, and then 5 ______ to give up her seat to a white passenger. Rosa Parks was arrested, and the black community of Montgomery was outraged.
Martin Luther King persuaded the black citizens to protest 6 ____. He organized a boycott of the bus service. For 381 days, the buses rolled virtually empty.  The blacks supported the boycott. They walked, hitch-hiked — and the buses stayed empty. At last, the bus company gave in. The law was 7 _____. Martin Luther King, Jr, had won his first protest against 8 _____. He believed that the blacks could win their struggle for equal 9 _____ without violence.
In 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was only thirty-four years old — the youngest man who had ever 10 _____ this high honour.

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THE PERFECT PRINCE
The eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince William is second in line to the throne after his father, Prince Charles. On the 21st of June 2003 Prince William 1 _____ his 21st birthday. Being a prince is not as easy as it may seem. Being a future king is even more difficult.
Now, there are a lot of people in Britain who 2 _____ that Britain should get rid of the royal family. Why? One of the main reasons is that having a monarchy is very 3 _____.
Many people think that Prince William is the only person who could save the situation and he seems the only 4 _____ candidate. It is already clear that William knows his own mind. For example, he insisted on 5 ____ to St. Andrews University in Scotland rather than to 6 ____ Oxford or Cambridge. This is why William is often 7 _____ ‘the perfect prince’ by the media. However, William faces a lot of challenges in his life. To start with, all his life, William has been avoiding media 8 ______. Therefore, it is not 9 _____ that there have been rumours that William does not want to be King. This does not seem to be true. In his 10 _____ birthday interview to Hello magazine, William said that the stories about him not wanting to be King were wrong, as it was something he was “born into” and his “duty”.

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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
 I was born in a little Austrian town, outside Graz. When I was ten years old, I had the dream of being the best in the world in something. When I was fifteen, I had a dream that I wanted to be the best body 1 _____ in the world and the most muscular man. It took me some time of hard work. Five years later, I became Mr. Universe, the best-built man in the world.  I hold the record as Mr. Olympia, the top professional body-building championship. I 2 _____ it six times. That's why I retired. There was 3 ____ even close to me. Everybody gave up competing against me. When I was a small boy, my dream was not to be big physically, but big in way that everybody 4 ____ to me when I talk, that I’m a very 5 ____ person, that people recognize me and see me as something special.
I have emotions. But what you do, you keep them cold or you store them away for a time. Sport is one of those 6 ____ where you really have to concentrate. You have to 7 _____ at a very early date what you want: a normal life or to achieve things you want to achieve. I never wanted to win a popularity contest in doing things the way people want me to do it. I went the road I thought was best for me.
I believed very strongly in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay 8 ____ with it too long. 9 ____ a new dream and hunt after that one and 10 _____ it into reality. When you have that dream achieved, make up a new dream.

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OUR FAIR LADY
Audrey Hepburn-Ruston was born in Brussels on May 4, 1929 in the family of a wealthy English banker and a Dutch baroness. Her parents divorced when she was six. Audrey's greatest love was music. She wanted to be a dancer, and she studied dancing since she was five. But one day the ballet school teacher 1 _____ her: ”I'm sorry, but you'll never be a famous dancer. You're too tall”. Then 2 _____ happened. It 3 _____ her life for ever. She was given a small part in a big London musical. The same year a Hollywood movie producer offered her the part of a princess in a big new movie, Roman Holiday. The film was a great 4 _____ and Audrey won an Oscar for Best Actress. She went on to star in a series of successful films and 5 ____ several Best Actress Oscar nominations for her performance. Not everybody considered her pretty, but most people 6 ____ that she had charm and class. Audrey starred in about 30 films. When she became older, she wanted to do something more important with her life. She started to work for the United Nations. She was officially 7 ____ UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She visited the poorest and most dangerous countries in the world. She died at the age of sixty four. Her face is still 8 ____ at us from posters and pages of fashion magazines. One of film critics said: “In this cruel and 9 ____ world Audrey was living proof that God could still 10 ____ perfection.”