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In 1920 the Cousteau family moved to New York, where Jacques-Yves learnt
English and started speaking it 2)_____ (FLUENCY). At that time he displayed his
interest in the sea. Two years later the family returned to France
and young
Cousteau built a few curious mechanical things, for example, an automobile
model, running on 3)_____(ELECTRICITY) power. His hobby helped him in the
future.
Cousteau entered the Naval Academy in 1930. His group was the 4)_____
(ONE) to complete a circumnavigation. On 5)_____ (GRADUATE) from the
Academy Cousteau went to Shanghai, then to the USSR.
Once Cousteau bought 6)_____ (WATER) goggles and he understood at once
that the underwater world he saw would become his 7)_____ (DEVOTE). In 1950
he chartered a ship ‘Calypso’ that once belonged to the British Navy for 1 franc a
year and set out on his long series of journeys. The ship was 8)_____ (GOOD)
equipped.
Cousteau 9)_____ (SHOOT) a lot of documentaries: Cousteau’s Amazon
Series, Cousteau’s 10)_____ (DISCOVERY) of the World and other. He also
wrote
a number of books, but the 11)_____(MANY) famous of them is ‘The
Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau’. Cousteau was the
first to shoot films
underwater, he constructed the camera 12)_____ (HE).
Cousteau created not only his team but aroused an interest in the sea in his
family. His sons became his adherents and devoted 13)_____ (THEY) lives to the
protection of environment. Cousteau himself made a lot of attempts to convince
14)_____ (GOVERN) to stop dumping waste into the water, but little has changed.
Cousteau died in Paris in 1997 at the age of 87.
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