B2 THE MANY FACETS OF READING Complete each blank space with the correct form of the word in bold at the end of that line. Reading may be an obligation for a school child, a pastime for a retired person, but a (0) pleasure for many. You can discover a smile on the face of a novel PLEASE reader, a gleam in the eyes of the reader of a poem and lines of (1) ........................... SERIOUS on the forehead of a person reading a newspaper report. Reading affects the mind and heart. Waves of thinking and emotion are generated by reading. The pleasure B2 is immediate and continues to linger in the mind. Reading lifts us up from the harsh (2) ........................... of life into a world of the REAL imagination. The magic touch of fancy transmutes grief into joy, (3) ........................... FAIL into success, pain into pleasure and fear into hope. Even an (4) ........................... man HAPPY may forget his unhappiness, and reality no longer appears so hard. Reading gives intellectual (5) ........................... A detective novel satisfies our sense SATISFY of curiosity, serious literature encourages our intellectual (6) ..........................., ACTIVE light literature amuses us and poetry stirs our imagination. By reading we can relive the past and create the future, enrich our experience and sharpen our (7) ........................... . Experience, in turn, makes us wiser and self-confident. JUDGE Books can give company when humans cannot. We can happily spend our (8) B2 B2 ........................... hours in the company of characters created by writers. A train LONELINESS journey may be tiresome if we do not have a magazine or a newspaper by our side; (9) ........................... nights may be too long without a mystery thriller. SLEEP Reading gives us (10) ........................... pleasure. A sensuous poet may provide a rich VARY feast for our senses; another may satisfy our aesthetic sense. Read the following text and choose the best alternative. The Man Booker Prize The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded every year for a novel by an author form anywhere in the world, as long as the work is in English and published in the UK, and it aims to represent the very best in contemporary fiction. The prize was originally called the Booker-McConnell Prize , which was the name of the company that sponsored it, though it was better-known as simply the Booker Prize . In 2002, the Man Group became the sponsor and they chose the new name, keeping Booker . Publishers can submit books for consideration for the prize, but the judges, too, can ask to submit books they think should be included. An Advisory Committee gives advice if there have been any changes to the rules and also 300
