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(d) Only when we are ready for books.
5 What claim did Merton make about the poems of William Blake? (a) They were similar to the works of the Greek writers and thinkers. (b) They helped him understand the meaning of life. (c) They created a sense of confusion.
(d) They taught him a lot about modern culture. 6 What is meant by a home-run book?
(a) A book which is so good you are unable to put it down. (b) A book that the whole family can enjoy.
(c) A children‘s book that is read and appreciated by adults.
(d) A book that hits hard like a home run in the game of baseball. Dealing with unfamiliar words
4 Match the words in the box with their definitions. 1 to make someone feel that they do not belong to your group (exclude) 2 to fail to do something that you should do (neglect) 3 to mention something as an example (cite)
4 to be strong enough not to be harmed or destroyed by something (withstand) 5 in most situations or cases (normally) 6 to be about to happen in the future (await)
5 Complete the paragraph with the correct form of the words in Activity 4. When I lived in Britain, one of my favourite radio programmes was called ―Desert Island Discs‖. The format was always the same: Guest celebrities were asked to imagine they had been washed ashore on a
desert island, and had to choose nine books – (1) excluding the Bible and Shakespeare, which they were
already provided with – to take with them to the island, to help them (2) withstand the physical and mental
isolation. I sometimes like to think which books I would take. (3) Normally, like most people, I don‘t have much time for reading, and I could (4) cite dozens of books which