A. GETTING B. CAUSING C. MAKING D. LEAVING II. READ THE FOLLOWING...
45. A. getting
B. causing
C. making
D. leaving
II. Read the following extracts from the book descriptions and choose the best answer (A, B,
C or D) to each question.
Book A
... The Roman Emperor Claudius writes the inside story of his public life. Men classed him as a
pitiful fool. But the actions he describes.are far from foolish. Reluctantly crowned Emperor, he
appears as a man whose errors came from good nature and innocence. It is the common people
and the common soldiers who help him to repair the damage done by the Emperor Caligula by
conquering Britain, and who stand by him in his final hard judgement on his unfaithful wife.
Book B
... A fortune-teller once told Mary (as the author calls herself in this book): 'You are going to be
loved by people you've ever seen and never will see'.
That statement came true when she published her delightful and exact record of country life at
the end of the last century - a record in which she describes the fast - dissolving England of farm -
worker and country tradesman and colours her picture with the cheerful courage and the rare
pleasures that marked a self-sufficient world of work and poverty ...
Book C
... 'Leave it to my man, Johnson,’ Cecil used to say, whether the problem was the colour of a
shirt, the shape of a hat, the style of a coat. What did it matter if Johnson tended to take charge of
his life and that without his approval his employer could not even grow a moustache? Was he not
always there for him to lean on in moments of difficulty? And such moments were frequent in the
leisured life of Cecil and his friends in the London of the first motor buses.
Book D
... The novel is the story of a man for whom both real life and university research have lost their
meaning. Separated from his over-emotional wife, Gerald Middleton is painfully aware that the
centre of his life is empty. But the world is reaching out for him again ...
Gerald is the only person still alive who was present when Bishop Eorpwald's grave was opened
and the strange wooden figure found which has offended, puzzled and fascinated students of early
English history for years. But he also keeps another even worse secret...