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How did the work of García Marquez affect you? Some of his readers have shared their stories on the BBC website.
Some useful vocabulary:
mourning - cremation - pass away - memorial - pay tribute - legacy
readership - Nobel laureate - nonfiction - spark controversy
accomplished journalist - cultured man
LANGUAGE - CLOZE
Gabriel García Márquez, one of the world's greatest novelists, has died, aged 87. He passed (1) ____ at his home in Mexico. The official cause of death was a lung infection. The Colombian writer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, among many more top (2) ____ awards. The Colombian government has announced three days of national (3) ____. A spokesperson said García Márquez was, "a writer who changed the lives of his readership". His novel ''Love in the Time of Cholera" is the best selling book written in Spanish of (4) ____ time. He also wrote many more classics. Many (5) ____ place García Márquez among the most important writers ever. He helped develop a style of writing called "magical (6) ____ ".
U.S. President Barack Obama paid a tribute to Márquez, saying: "The world has lost one of its greatest (7) ____ writers." Former President Bill Clinton said: "I was always amazed by his unique (8) ____ of imagination, clarity of thought, and emotional honesty. He captured the pain and joy of our common humanity in (9) ____ both real and magical." García Márquez once said he was a storyteller from a young age. He told an interviewer: "I have often been told by the family that I started (10) ____ things, stories and (11) ____ on, almost since I was born - ever since I could speak." Peruvian Nobel prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa said: "His novels will survive and will continue to (12) ____ new readers everywhere."
Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
| 1. | (a) | over | (b) | up | (c) | away | (d) | down |
| 2. | (a) | literary | (b) | literal | (c) | literacy | (d) | literate |
| 3. | (a) | weeping | (b) | mourning | (c) | lament | (d) | morning |
| 4. | (a) | every | (b) | any | (c) | whole | (d) | all |
| 5. | (a) | criticize | (b) | plaudits | (c) | critics | (d) | pundits |
| 6. | (a) | relativism | (b) | realism | (c) | realm | (d) | radicalism |
| 7. | (a) | visionary | (b) | prophetic | (c) | perspicacious | (d) | predicting |
| 8. | (a) | tips | (b) | bonuses | (c) | presents | (d) | gifts |
| 9. | (a) | venues | (b) | locations | (c) | settings | (d) | areas |
| 10. | (a) | practising | (b) | calculating | (c) | adding up | (d) | recounting |
| 11. | (a) | as | (b) | so | (c) | such | (d) | say |
| 12. | (a) | find | (b) | search | (c) | read | (d) | magic |
Read more:http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1404/140421-gabriel-garcia-marquez.html#ixzz2zVtagz9R
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