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The Great Gatsby is probably F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest novel, a book that offers damning and insightful views of the American nouveau riche in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is an american classic and a wonderfully evocative work.

Like much of Fitzgerald’s prose, it is neat and well crafted. Fitzgerald seems to have had a brilliant understanding of lives that are corrupted by greed and incredibly sad and unfulfilled. The novel is a product of its generation with one of American literature’s most powerful characters in the figure of Jay Gatsby, who is urbane and world-weary. Gatsby is really nothing more than a man desperate  for love.
(Adapted from: The Great Gatsby Review. Source: . Accessed on: 14 jul. 2013.)

 

According to what is stated in the review, consider the following statements.

I. Fitzgerald shows in his novel an understanding of the corruption greed can cause.
II. The Great Gatsby portrays lives fulfilled by love and professional satisfaction.
III. The novel reflects the lifestyle of a generation of American literature writers.
IV. The main character, Gatsby, represents someone who is in despair for love.

Choose the correct alternative.

The Great Gatsby is probably F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest novel, a book that offers damning and insightful views of the American nouveau riche in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is an american classic and a wonderfully evocative work.

Like much of Fitzgerald’s prose, it is neat and well crafted. Fitzgerald seems to have had a brilliant understanding of lives that are corrupted by greed and incredibly sad and unfulfilled. The novel is a product of its generation with one of American literature’s most powerful characters in the figure of Jay Gatsby, who is urbane and world-weary. Gatsby is really nothing more than a man desperate  for love.
(Adapted from: The Great Gatsby Review. Source: . Accessed on: 14 jul. 2013.)

 

Based on the review, it is correct to assert that

Actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie Voight was born in Los Angeles, California, on June 4, 1975. She starred in the HBO biopic Gia before earning an Academy Award for best supporting actress for Girl, Interrupted. Jolie has become one of Hollywood’s top marquee names, having starred in movies like Wanted, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Salt and Changeling. She’s also directed the film In the Land of Blood and Honey. In October 2008, Jolie appeared in the Clint Eastwood-directed thriller Changeling, for which she received an Oscar nomination for best actress.
She is coupled with actor Brad Pitt and has a big family. Jolie first adopted Maddox, her first son. Three years later, Jolie adopted a daughter, Zahara. The couple’s first biological daughter, Shiloh, was born in 2006. In March 2007, Jolie added a new member to her family, she adopted another boy. In 2008, she gave birth to twins.
A devoted humanitarian, Angelina Jolie was made a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency in 2001. She has made headlines for her work to obtain aid for refugees in Cambodia, Darfur and Jordan, to name just a few. In 2005, Jolie received the Global Humanitarian Action Award from the United Nations Association of the USA for her activism on behalf of refugee rights.
In May 2013, 37-year-old Jolie announced in a New York Times op-ed article titled My Medical Choice that she underwent a double mastectomy in an effort to prevent breast cancer in the future. The actress said she decided to undergo the surgery after learning that she carries a gene known as BRCA1, which increases the risk of both breast and ovarian cancer. The news made headlines all over the world.
(Adapted from: Angelina Jolie’s Biography. Source: . Accessed on: 14 jul. 2013.)

According to the text, Angelina Jolie has received an

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent, and our language – so the argument runs – must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.

Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step towards political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers.
(ORWELL, G. Politics and The English Language (Fragment). Source: . Accessed on: 12 June 2013.)

According to the author, a condition to avoid bad habits in the English language is

(Source: <http://shanenorrie.blogspot.com.br/2011/12/new-book-release.html>. Accessed on: 8 June 2013.)

According to what is stated in the add, shipping is done

The word But, in the last balloon, is a linking word that indicates