Czy moglby ktos sprawdzic mi to cwiczenie poniewaz nie mam odpowiedzi i nie jestem pewnien czy dobrze rozwiazalem. (moje odpowiedzi zaznaczam stawiajac krzyzyk obok odpowiedniego wyrazu)
People surround the idea of reading with piety, and do not (0).....into account the purpose of reading or the value of what is being read.
It is worth (1).....how the act of reading became something to value in itself, (2)....to the act of conversation or the act of taking a walk. Mass literacy is a recent (3)....., and I suggest that the aura which decorates reading is a relic of the (4)....of reading to our great-great-grandparents. Literacy (5).... a mark of social distinction, separating a small portion of humanity from the rest. The farm laborer who was ambitious for his children did not daydream that they (6)....become schoolteachers or doctors; he daydreamed that they would learn to read, and that a world would (7)....open up to them in which they did not have to labor in the fields fourteen hours a day for six days a week in order to buy salt and cotton. On the next rank of society, (8).... time for reading meant that the reader was free (9).... the necessity to spend most of his walking hours making a living. (10)...sort of attitude shades into the contemporary man's boast of his wife's cultural activities. When he says that his wife is interested in books and music and pictures, he is (11)...enclosing the arts in a female world; he is saying that he is (12).... enough to provide her with the leisure to do nothing. Reading is an inactivity and (13)....a badge of social class. Of course, these reasons for the piety attached to reading are (14)... acknowledged. They only show themselves in the shape of our attitudes towards books; reading (15)... an air of gentility.
0 A)bring B)take + C)put D)make E)consider
1 A)to ask B)of asking C)asking+ D)being asked E)having asked
2 A)as opposed B)similarly+ C)in addition D)instead E)equally
3 A)problem B)predicament C)dilemma D)phenomenon+ E)phenomena
4 A)ignorance B)unimportance C)importance+ D)preoccupation E)mediocrity
5 A)is B)used to be+ C)will be D)had been E)being
6 A)would+ B)will C)shall D)will have E)would have
7 A)never+ B)unfortunately C)nevertheless D)likewise E)therefore
8 A)large B)plenty+ C)ample D)little E)often
9 A)off B)to C)out of D)with E)from+
10 A)some B)any C)a D)the E)this+
11 A)furthermore B)merely C)only D)not only E)just+
12 A)impoverished B)happy C)anxious D)rich+ E)tricky
13 A)despite this B)therefore+ C)instead D)nevertheless E)on average
14 A)never B)commonly C)indeed D)just+ E)always
15 A)breathe out+ B)gives in C)brings off D)floats on E)gives off