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15.06.2021 11:01

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2. Прочитайте и переведите текст, ответьте на вопросы: BOOKS IN OUR LIFE We cannot imagine our life without books. Books are our friends. They play a very important role in our life. Books teach us to be honest, kind and helpful. There is practically no family that does not have books. We meet them when we are very small and cannot read, but we remember the pictures from them, we remember our mothers read them for us. We learn very much from books. Books educate people in different spheres of life. They develop our imagination, make us think and analyse. They help to from our character and the world outlook. Books help us in self-education and in deciding problems of life. They make our life more interesting. Books can be divided into three main classes. First, scientific books on different branches of knowledge, works by brilliant scientists. These serious books help us understand the life, give us answers to the questions which worry us, they make us think. Second, textbooks, reference books and numerous dictionaries. They are read for information and serve for broadening our knowledge. They help us with our lessons and work. Third, books of all kinds and genres to read at leisure, for amusement. These are historic novels, books by the classics, books about the events that happen in real life, etc. Many people enjoy so-called “easy reading” – detectives, amusing, humorous stories, fantastics. You may be interested to know that detective literature first appeared in the U.S.A. in the middle of the last centure. Then it became popular in England, France, and other countries. So, as you can see, there are different kinds of books: novels, short stories, tales, fairy-tales, poems, plays, atlases and text-books. Books can be humorous, adventurous, detective, fantastic, political, scientific. They can be interesting, thrilling, fascinating, exciting, useful, unusual, true-to-life, boring, uninteresting, original and unoriginal, well-written and badly-written. So many people, so may tastes. Books are certainly one of the greatest invention of the man.