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When you "taste" a book you read it carefully from the beginning to the end.
F
Many people only have time to read when they are travelling.
NM
Books with good stories are often described as "hard-to-put-down".
T
Television has replaced books altogether.
F
If you want to learn how to knit or work with wood, you should buy a C........... book.
craft
A S.............. F.................. book is a type of book that is based on imagined scientific discoveries of the future.
science fiction
A N............ is a story long enough to fill a complete book, in which the characters and events are usually imaginary.
novel
If you enjoy reading stories about love affairs, a R........... is the right book for you.
romance
If you like books with an exciting story especially ones about crime or spies, read a T........
thriller
Books in the home are a wonderful source of ......... and ..........
knowledge/ pleasure
Books are still a ...........way to get information and ........, and you can keep a book forever and read it many times.
cheap / entertainment
But, in fact, television has not ........ reading. Today, more books of every kind are .......... than ever before.
killed/ sold
Why read when television can bring you all the ......... and ....... with colour, picture and action?
information/ stories
Some people think that as more and more people have television in their ..........., fewer and fewer people will buy books to read.
homes
Do not start a book unless you can see from the first few pages that it is one you can ........ read and understand.
easily
That does not mean reading it too slowly. When you pick up a book for the ............ time, check that it is not too ...........
first/ difficult
Other books are for reading slowly and carefully. If it is a book on a subject that you are ........... in, you will want to “....... and digest it”.
interested/ chew
But not all stories belong to this class. ............. sometimes describe books as “hard-to-put- down”, or “hard-to-pick-up-again”.
Reviewers
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
Some stories are for “swallowing”. Imagine that you have found a good story, and, what is even more ............, the time to enjoy it.
important
It is enough to ........ ....... it and read bits ......... .......... ............ In a word, this is “tasting”.
dip into/ here and there
For example, you might ....... ...... a travel book and read a few pages before going to sleep.
pick up
This good advice shows how it is ....... to read different types of books in different ways.
possible
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