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Ex 299- difficult beginnings
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Message de here4u posté le 17-05-2025 à 00:33:57 (S | E | F)
Hello dears,
Vous allez pouvoir continuer à faire connaissance avec Cal... Faites bien attention à la longueur des phrases.
Vous n'êtes pas obligés de la conserver, mais devez choisir de la ponctuation qui ne change pas
le sens du texte.
Courage et inspiration... 
Translate into French:
Now comfortably settled in an exquisitely furnished twelve-room mansion in Greenwich, Cal was
living the life he had dreamed about for himself years ago in the tiny, spartan bedroom that had
been his retreat from his parents, who had spent their evenings drinking cheap wine and quarreling.
When the quarrels got too loud or became violent, the neighbours had called the police. Cal learned
to dread the sound of the police siren, the contempt in the eyes of the neighbours, the snickers of
his classmates, the comments around town about his trashy parents.
He was very smart, certainly smart enough to know that the only road for him was education, and in
fact, his teachers in school soon realized he’d been blessed with near genius intelligence. In his
bedroom with its sagging floor, peeling walls, and single dim overhead light, he’d studied and read
voraciously, concentrating particularly on learning everything he could about the possibilities for
and future of the computer.
At twenty-four, after getting an MBA, he went to work at a struggling computer company.
Mary Higgins Clark, We’ll meet again.
Cet exercice est un
et la correction sera en ligne le mardi 27 mai 2025.
THE FORCE is with You!
Message de here4u posté le 17-05-2025 à 00:33:57 (S | E | F)
Hello dears,
Vous allez pouvoir continuer à faire connaissance avec Cal... Faites bien attention à la longueur des phrases.
Vous n'êtes pas obligés de la conserver, mais devez choisir de la ponctuation qui ne change pas
le sens du texte.
Courage et inspiration...
Translate into French:
Now comfortably settled in an exquisitely furnished twelve-room mansion in Greenwich, Cal was
living the life he had dreamed about for himself years ago in the tiny, spartan bedroom that had
been his retreat from his parents, who had spent their evenings drinking cheap wine and quarreling.
When the quarrels got too loud or became violent, the neighbours had called the police. Cal learned
to dread the sound of the police siren, the contempt in the eyes of the neighbours, the snickers of
his classmates, the comments around town about his trashy parents.
He was very smart, certainly smart enough to know that the only road for him was education, and in
fact, his teachers in school soon realized he’d been blessed with near genius intelligence. In his
bedroom with its sagging floor, peeling walls, and single dim overhead light, he’d studied and read
voraciously, concentrating particularly on learning everything he could about the possibilities for
and future of the computer.
At twenty-four, after getting an MBA, he went to work at a struggling computer company.
Mary Higgins Clark, We’ll meet again.
Cet exercice est un
et la correction sera en ligne le mardi 27 mai 2025.THE FORCE is with You!
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