BOOKS AND TV
Some people think that as more and more people have televisions in their homes; fewer and fewer people will buy books and newspapers. Why read an article in the newspaper, when the TV news can bring you the information in a few minutes and with pictures? Why read a novel, when a play on television can tell you same story with colour, picture and action?
Why read the biographies of famous men and women, when an hour-long television programs can tell you all that you want to know?
Television has not killed reading, however. Today, newspapers and magazines are sold in very large numbers. And books of every kind are sold more than ever before. Books are still a cheap way to get information and entertainment. Although some books with hard covers are expensive, many books are published today as paperback books, which are reasonably cheap. A paperback novel, for example, is almost always cheaper than an evening at the cinema or theatre, and you can keep a book forever and read it many times.
Books at home are a wonderful source of knowledge and pleasure and some types of books should be in every home. Every home should have a good dictionary. Every home should have an atlas of the world, with large clear maps. It might be expensive, but a good encyclopedia is useful, too, because you can find information on any subject. In addition, it is useful to have on your bookshelves other non-fiction books such as history books, science textbooks, cookery books, books about medicine and health, etc. It is equally important to have some fiction on your shelves, too. Then you can relax with a good story, or from time to time you can take a book of poems off your shelves and read the thoughts and feelings of your favourite poets.
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READING COMPREHENSION TEST
I Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right
1. ...an articlea) a book that is used to study a school subject
2. ...an atlasb) a publication that comes out weekly or monthly
3. ...a biographyc) a book with maps of the world
4. ...a noveld) usually a cheap book with a soft cover
5. ...a textbooke) a story about a real person
6. ...a dictionary f) a piece of writing in a newspaper
7. ...a poem g) a book of word definitions
8. ...a paperback h) usually a short piece of writing expressing a deep
feeling or thought
9. ...a magazinei) a story about people who are not real
II Choose the best answer according to the information in the passage
1.Which is easier to get the news from?
a) a newspaper
b) the television
2.Which is usually quicker?
a) to read a biography of a famous person
b) to watch a television programme about a famous person
3.Which is usually cheaper?
a) a paperback
b) an evening at the cinema
4.Which is usually cheaper?
a) a paperback
b) a hardcover book
5.Which is it most important to have in your home?
a) non-fiction books, such as a dictionary and an encyclopedia
b) fiction, such as novels, short stories and books of poems
c) a mixture of both good non-fiction and your favourite fiction.
III Which of the following are non-fiction and which are fiction? Put the words into the two columns
Atlas, novel, short story, textbook, play, dictionary, encyclopedia, poem.
IV Write a short review of the book you've read and liked very much. Be sure to mention the title of the book, say a few words about the author, describe the scene of the action, main characters and ideas
Объяснение:Hobbies make our life more colouful and they keep us occupied in our leisure time. And I believe hobbies help us both to relax and to develop.
My favourite hobby is drawing. I started drawing when I was five. My mother was a great teacher in my childhood, she always encouraged me and praised my funny drawings. She even decorated the house with them. And the best presents on my parents’ and grandparents’ birthdays were also my drawings. Of course I was pleased and quite proud of my works. Since then this hobby has become a very important part of my life.
I studied drawing from the special literature containing different sketches. I learnt to imitate drawing nature, beautiful buildings, human faces and bodies, animals and birds. I practiced in making them realistic and natural. My hobby made me observe the world around me every minute of my life. I realized that observation was the main thing in the art of painting and drawing.
Today drawing and painting are so much fun to me. I just need a paint brush and watercolour, crayons or pencils and some drawing paper. And I feel happy and never get bored with my hobby. I try to show all my devotion, imagination and creativity in my works. Mostly I am fond of still-lives and landscapes in light colours. Although it happens sometimes that I suddenly take a pen and start drawing whatever comes to my mind. I don’t consider myself to be a great artist and I still have much to be improved but my friends are always amazed at my pictures and they find them unique.
Drawing brings me real satisfaction. It is my own little world. And I hope one day it will help me to focus on my goal and become a graphic designer.
In the first week of June of the same year, the military watched a UFO on a radar in southern New Mexico. On the night of June 14, the radar indicated that the object was around Roswell. That night, residents said they heard accidents. One of them, the owner of the Brazel ranch, watched a shiny object fall to the ground, so he rode his horse with his son and found a large number of metal objects that were not ordinary - Brezel bent them, and after a few seconds they returned to their original form. Something else caught his attention — an egg-shaped object — and it seems that people were inside.
Because of the observations in the first half of the year, Brazel did not hesitate to think that these pieces of metal belong to the wreckage of a UFO, and he reported his findings to the sheriff.
After a day or two, the military closed the place while they cleaned up the debris.
On June 18, the local press reported that the flying saucer crashed at Roswell and that there would be three passengers: two were dead and the third was alive for a short time, and that the government kept them under strict surveillance.
A few hours later, the press release said that they had made a mistake and that the wreckage belonged to a weather probe. They also stated that the bodies that were found should be aliens, but they had tested the mannequins used by U: S: Air Force on large balloons for scientific research.