Find and correct mistakes in parallel structures in the following sentences. 1. Steel is alloyed with manganese to increase its strength, hardness and resistant to wear. 2. Sacramento is the commercial, industry, and financial center of California’s Central Valley, as well as being the state capital. 3. When taking part in winter sports, one should wear clothing that is lightweight, warmth, and suitable for the activity. 4. Folklore consists of the beliefs, customs, traditions, and telling stories that people pass from generation to generation. 5. Because of their hardness, industrial diamonds can be used for cutting, to grind, and drilling. 6. Scholar John Fiske wrote on history, religious, and sociology. 7. Monterey, California, has long been a center for writers, artists, and the craftsman. 8. T.S. Eliot was equally distinguished as a poet, he wrote criticism and dramatist.9. The book contained stories, poetic and plays. 10. She needed some shoes that were inexpensively, hard-wearing and attractive.
24. Jane just a few minutes ago. A left
25. If I were you, I that coat. It’s too much expensive. A won’t buy и D wouldn’t buy
26. Robert laеely? B Have you seen
27. We Switzerland four times during 1970s. C visited
28. Jenny leave the hospital only six hours after the baby was born. A was able
29. The car broke down and we a taxi. C had to get
30. You whisper. Nobody can hear us. B don’t have to
31. Who was coming to see me this morning? B did you say
32. I remembered the race. A the horse’s winning и C the horse winning
33. She reminded the papers. B me where I had to leave.
34. We had holiday in Spain. C two-week
35. Against her parent’s wishes, she wants to be . C a journalist
36. the most popular of fiction writing. D Novels are
37. What have we got ? C for dinner
Early Life
Author Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois, to Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, a lineman for power and telephone utilities, and Ester Moberg Bradbury, a Swedish immigrant. Bradbury enjoyed a relatively idyllic childhood in Waukegan, which he later incorporated into several semi-autobiographical novels and short stories. As a child, he was a huge fan of magicians, and a voracious reader of adventure and fantasy fiction—especially L. Frank Baum, Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Bradbury decided to become a writer at about age 12 or 13. He later said that he made the decision in hopes of emulating his heroes, and to "live forever" through his fiction.
Bradbury's family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1934. As a teenager, he participated in his school's drama club and occasionally befriended Hollywood celebrities. His first official pay as a writer came for contributing a joke to George Burns's Burns & Allen Show. After graduation from high school in 1938, Bradbury couldn't afford to go to college, so he went to the local library instead. "Libraries raised me," he later said. "I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression, and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years."
Literary Works and Honors
To support himself while he wrote, Bradbury sold newspapers. He published his first short story in a fan magazine in 1938, the same year he graduated from high school. The next year, he published four issues of his own fan magazine, Futuria Fantasia. Nearly every piece in the magazine was written by Bradbury himself; he used a variety of pseudonyms to try to hide the fact that the magazine was a virtual one-man show. "I was still years away from writing my first good short story," he later said, "but I could see my future. I knew where I wanted to go."
Bradbury sold his first professional piece, the story "Pendulum," in November 1941, just a month before the United States entered World War II, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Ruled ineligible for military service by his local draft board because of his vision problems, Bradbury became a full-time writer by early 1943. His first collection of short stories, Dark Carnival, was published in 1947.
That same year, he married Marguerite "Maggie" McClure, whom he met while she was working as a clerk at a bookstore. McClure was the breadwinner in the early days of their marriage, supporting Bradbury as he worked on his writing for little to no pay. The couple had four daughters, Susan (1949), Ramona (1951), Bettina (1955) and Alexandra (1958).
In 1950, Bradbury published his first major work, The Martian Chronicles, which detailed the conflict between humans colonizing the red planet and the native Martians they encountered there. While taken by many to be a work of science fiction, Bradbury himself considered it to be fantasy. "I don't write science fiction," he said. "Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal. So Martian Chronicles is not science fiction, it's fantasy. It couldn't happen, you see?" Television and comic book adaptations of Bradbury's short stories began to appear in 1951, introducing him to a wider audience.
Bradbury's best-known work, Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, became an instant classic in the era of McCarthyism for its exploration of themes of censorship and conformity. In 2007, Bradbury himself disputed that censorship was the main theme of Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury died in Los Angeles on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91. He was survived by daughters Susan, Ramona, Bettina and Alexandra, as well as several grandchildren. An inspiration to writers, teachers and science-fiction enthusiasts, among countless others, Bradbury's fascinating science-fiction works will be remembered for decades to come.