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If you want a different perspective on your friends' reading (0) .. , why not ask them what was the worst book they ever read? Or what was the last book that they (1) to finish reading? When I asked a number of my friends this question, I got some surprising (2) The first surprise was one of my friends said that they had (3) Rings after only ten pages! I was very disappointed because that is one of my all-time (4) .. on J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the reads. The same friend said that he had tried to read Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe on several (5) ***, but had never finished it. One of my friends said she had always (6) the modernist novelist Virginia Woolf, but that she had (7) tale Orlando. The problem was that the book was difficult roblems reading her classic fantasy to read because of all its descriptions and adjectives. I have to admit that I (8) the same: I finished the book, but it was (9) work. Another interesting response was how many people said that they liked one kind of book when they were younger, but that their taste (10) . .. as they got older. I remember my brother complaining at school when his teacher (11) him read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. But when we were having dinner recently, he mentioned to me that now it is (12) of the books that he likes the most! C activities C failed D pastimes O A habits 1 A objected B passed 2 A ends 3 A gone away B put down 4 A popular B favourite B hobbies B achievements C scores C given up C most C times C pleased C made C felt C heavy D results D put away D fine D dates D preferred D had D considered D large C distinguished D turned D made D last 5A occasions B events 6 A admired B delighted 7 A taken B done B made 8A had 9 A much 10 A grew Bs hard B changed C let C included 11 A said B told 12 A one B best