Задание

Complete the task.Read the text about Jack London and put the correct parts of the sentences below into the gaps. One number is extra.

Write one number in each gap.

Jack London, whose full name was John Griffith London, was born in the slums of San Francisco in 1876. Because of the fact that his family was poor, he had to go to work at an early age to support his family.

Jack London was enrolled for a short time at the University of California at Berkeley, but he left it in the late 1890s because he joined the gold rush in the wild Yukon Territory in Canada. London never found gold, but his experiences in the harsh environment gave him ideas for his stories.

When he returned to San Francisco, . After he won a writing contest, he decided to devote his life to writing stories. 1903 was the year when his most famous book, "The Call of the Wild", was published. The book, which told the story of a dog purloined from a California ranch and set to work as a sled dog in faraway Alaska, brought him fame and a certain fortune. Many of his stories are about a civilised man .

Jack London wrote more than 50 books and was extremely popular. His writing style, , attracted readers from all over the world.

In 1916, Jack London died at his home in California. Although he was only forty years old, he had had enough time to become one of the most famous and respected writers of his time.

1. which was often described as exciting and brutal

2. although he was poor

3. who gets back in touch with his deep, animal instincts

4. he began writing about what he saw and did.