Make Your Way 6, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Reading Read the text below, then complete the sentences (1–6) using a maximum of 4 words. Write your answers in the space provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. 33 It’s the list no author would want to be seen on – the books people bought but just couldn’t finish. A recent survey of 4,000 people reveals that we spend more than 6,000 euro on books over a lifetime, but leave nearly half of them unfinished. Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre, won the Booker Prize in 2003, but it heads the top ten list of unfinishable novels. According to the readers questioned, 35% gave up before the end. Pierre is in good company. About 32% of them found JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire no magic read. In third place was James Joyce’s famously difficult masterpiece Ulysses. About 28% could not struggle through its 1,000 pages. Other books on the fiction list include The Satanic Verses, which brought a death sentence on its author Salman Rushdie. While he suffered for his art, 21% of those surveyed suffered while reading it. Commenting on the survey, DBC Pierre’s agent said, ‘He’s not that bothered’. Nor, according to his spokesman, was David Blunkett. His 800- page account of his days in the Government and the failings of his fellow cabinet members was abandoned by 35% of readers and so tops the non-fiction list. President Bill Clinton’s 1,024- page autobiography lost 30% of its readers. Maybe they only looked at the bits about his marriage and his love affairs. The survey gives an insight into the pressures on the 21st-century bookworm. Television, tired- ness, computer games, there was always a reason – or an excuse – to do something else. Moreover, half those questioned admitted that they bought books simply to look good on their shelves, with no intention of reading them. Once I’d put it down I just couldn’t pick it up again 0 In this , 4,000 readers were questioned about their reading habits. survey Q1 Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre, was only finished by %. Q2 the survey, only one third of the reader´s managed to finish “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”. Q3 James Joyce´s “Ulysses” also has the reputation of being . Q4 DBC Pierre was by the result of this survey. Q5 David Blunkett was the author of a 800page thriller. Q6 50% of the participants in the survey had to read the books they bought. 74 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv