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Jules Gabriel Verne Click the most appropriate option to fill the gap and complete the sentence. Jules Gabriel Verne Jules Verne was born in 1828 in France. Young Jules was interested in machinery, sailing, and writing. Together with his brother Paul, he explored the river near their home in an old sailboat. Jules' father was a lawyer, and he wanted his son to continue his career. So Jules was sent to Paris to study law. Jules, however, decided that his main interest was writing. He joined the club of scientific writers. His favorite subject at school was geography, so he wanted to describe in his books as many parts of the world as possible. Jules Verne's books are still popular now because they are good adventure stories. However, in his books, Verne also predicted different inventions that we have now. He believed that someday people would have airplanes, submarines, television, dirigibles, and powerful weapons. His books are “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” and “Around the World in Eighty Days” and many others. Verne had a notebook where he wrote every idea or a bit of information he came across that might be useful for his books. In his study, he had a large map of the world with all routes of his heroes marked on it. During his life, Jules Verne had written more than 50 books. He died at the age of 77.