While going over the text, try to recognize the collocations, treat them as single blocks of language and copy them out into your Collocation Book.

Collocations from A Biography of Isaac Asimov

science fiction stories, have both an extraordinary imagination and an amazing mind, give...the ability to explore ..., search for explanations of ..., in the present and the past, be born on 2 January, 1920, end in New York on 6 April, 1992, die as a result of an HIV infection, get... from a blood transfusion, nine years earlier, run...for the next 40 or so years, be pregnant with..., work there through one's ... years until ..., gain a master's degree at university in chemistry, work as a junior chemist, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, get one's PhD in chemistry, become a biochemistry teacher at ..., give up teaching to become a full-time ..., one's talent for ..., became obvious, retell a story from a book, take oneself seriously as a writer, have...published in science fiction magazines, throughout one's life, receive many awards for..., among his most famous works of science fiction, win an award, the death and rebirth of ..., in a galaxy of the future, be well known for one's collection of short stories, develop a set of ... for robots, research into artificial intelligence 4. Closing down by writing your own story with the collocations from A Biography of Isaac Asimov