If you enjoy reading stories about love affairs, a R........... is the right book for you.
romance
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seesaw
Swap points!
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magnet
Take 20 points!
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fairy
Take points!
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banana
Go to last place!
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baam
Lose 15 points!
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shark
Other team loses 10 points!
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rocket
Go to first place!
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thief
Give points!
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10
If you want to learn how to knit or work with wood, you should buy a C........... book.
craft
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It is enough to ........ ....... it and read bits ......... .......... ............ In a word, this is “tasting”.
dip into/ here and there
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If you like books with an exciting story especially ones about crime or spies, read a T........
thriller
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You might be on holiday, or on a long train journey. If it is a good book, you might say, “It’s so good I can’t ...... .... ......”
put it down
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heart
Other team wins 10 points!
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magnet
Take 25 points!
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gift
Win 25 points!
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lifesaver
Give 20 points!
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Many people only have time to read when they are travelling.
NM
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This good advice shows how it is ....... to read different types of books in different ways.
possible
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Some people think that as more and more people have television in their ..........., fewer and fewer people will buy books to read.
homes
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Francis Bacon, who lived at about the same time as Shakespeare, wrote these words, “Some books are to be tasted, others to be .................., and some few to be chewed and ..........”
swallowed/ digested
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But, in fact, television has not ........ reading. Today, more books of every kind are .......... than ever before.
killed/ sold
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When you "taste" a book you read it carefully from the beginning to the end.
F
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For example, you might ....... ...... a travel book and read a few pages before going to sleep.