Jules Verne’s most famous book is “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea”. (A “league” is an old word (1) about three miles.) In those days submarines (潜水艇) had not been (2) , but he describes an underwater ship very like a modern submarine. The captain of the submarine, Called Captain Nemo, and his men have many strange adventures and find many strange things (3) the bottom of the ocean. He was a very good (4) . His characters often did surprising and sometimes impossible things, but they always seemed (5) real people.
In another book, “Around the World in Eighty Days”, Jules Verne creates Mr. Fogg, the hero, (6) made a bet that he would travel around the world in eighty days. Nowadays this may seem (7) to you, but in those days there were no planes or even cars. Mr. Fogg and his servant traveled in many different (8) , even on an elephant at on time! If you want to know their result, you should read the book.
In all his books Jules Verne used his scientific knowledge (9) his imagination in describing future inventions. (10) he was wrong, of course, but often the accuracy of his descriptions is very clever.
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