Read the letter below and think of the word which best fits each spaceQuestion 4. Read the letter below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each space. Write your answer in the numbered box below. 0 is an example.(20pts) ARE E_BOOKS IN THE FUTURE? Those of us (0)_________ delight in reading will know the problem: our bookshelves are overload (1)_________ old favourite books we plan to re-read. And books we have not quite started yet. We collect stories that have caught our interest and find (2)________ hard to let them go. There is another way though. C-readers allow us to hold all our much-loved works of fiction in one hand. So what is preventing us (3)________ replacing our bookcases with one compact digital device, an e-reader? The advantages of c-readers certainly seem to outweigh the disadvantages. They are light and mobile devices that (4)__________ be taken anywhere. Taking one gadget on holiday allows us to take hundreds of novels with us (5)__________ having to pay for extra luggage on the plane. The electronic nature of e-readers gives us so (6)___________more than a print copy of a book can do. It lets us read in the dark (handy in case of a power cut). We can look (7)_______ unfamiliar words in the in-built dictionary with just one click, we can make notes. And we never forget (8)________ page we were on: the c-reader remembers that for us. If our eyesight declines, we can make the letters bigger. We can re-read Jane Eyre (9) _______often as we like and the book will never look any worse for it. And even if our taste in books is odd, nobody need know: others can't see what we are reading. Not only that, most e-books cheaper than their print versions, and (10)_________ older books can be downloaded for free |