EXERCISE 10

  We know we have to read "between the lines" to get the most out of anything.Making up is also a useful practice,_1__ you shouldn't mark up a book which isn't yours.Librarian who_2__ you books expect you to keep them clean,and you should .If you decide that I am right about the usefulness of marking books,you will have to _3__ them.

  There are two ways in _4__ one can own a book.The first is the property right you establish by _5__ it,just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But the act of purchase is only the prelude to __6_.Full ownership comes only when you have made it a _7__ of yourself,and the best way _8__ yourself a part of it is by writing in it.An illustration may make the point clear.You buy a beefsteak and transfer it __9_ the butcher's icebox to you own.But you don't own the beefsteak in the most important sense until you comsume it and get it _10__ your bloodstream.I am arguing that books,too,must be absored in tour bloodstream _11__ you any good.

  There are three kinds of book owners.The first has all the standard sets and best sellers—unread,__12_.The second has a _13__ many books —few of them read__14_,most of them dipped into,but all of them as clean and shiny _15__ the day they were bought.The third has a few books or many—every one of them__16_ and dilapidated.

  Why is __17_ a book indispensable to reading?First,it keeps you awake.I mean wide_18__.In the second place,reading if it is active,is thinking,and thinking __19_ express itself in words.Finally,writing helps you remember the thought you had,ot the thoughts the author _20__ .

1)    A  but                B although          C and         D so

2)    A  borrow             B borrrowed        C lend         D lent

3)    A buying              B buy            C borrow        D exchange

4)    A  which             B that             C what         D there

5)    A  pay for           B pay             C paying        D paying for

6)    A  possesses      B possess        C possession         D possessions

7)    A  group             B part         C series             D number

8)    A  to change         B to make        C making        D changing

9)    A  from             B into            C to            D form

10)   A away from        B out of            C into         D under

11)   A  having doing     B doing            C do          D to do

12)  A  untouching      B untouched         C touching      D touched

13)   A  great          B large             C big           D greater

14)   A  on             B aloud           C through        D about

15)   A  when           B which          C before         D as

16)   A  dogearing     B dogeared          C to be dogeared   D to dogear

17)   A marking up     B mark up           C to mark up      D to mark

18)   A  wake        B wake up           C awaking        D awake

19)   A  tend to       B tends to           C tending to       D tending

20)  A expressing     B to express       C expressed          D to expressing

参考答案:
1--5       ACBAD 
6--10     CBBAC

11--15   DBACD
16--20   BADBC

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