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Who do you side with?
· A Renaissance poet, John Donne wrote: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”
· In the novel About a Boy, a modern writer, Nick Hornby, portrays Will Freeman, a wealthy single, who says: “Every man is an island.”
54. Comment on the following statements:
· The rights of the individual are perhaps the most important rights in a free society.
· Society has a right to expect people to obey the law.
· Greed is often thought to be a product of the consumer society.
· Personal morality is a matter for the individual, and society should not expect everyone to have the same values.
HOME ACTIVITIES (8)
51. Complete the sentences with the proper forms of the Verb. 4
Professor Warnock enjoys challenges. For some time she has been teaching at Oxford and working in London. Now she is about to take a new job at Cambridge. She likes the idea of ________________ (1 – to have) a new job in the year she is 60. She hates ______________ (2 – not/to have) something on to go. She prefers _____________ (3 – to ask/to do) things rather than ______________ (4 – to think) them up for herself, but she would hate ________________ (5 – to get up) in the morning and feel there was no purpose to her life. Normally she gets up at 7.30. She doesn’t like ____________ (6 – to stay) in bed much. It is no treat _______________ (7 – to tell) she needn’t _______________ (8 – to get up) until later. She likes _______________ (9 – to go) through her post first thing. If she doesn’t read her letters over breakfast she tends _______________ (10 – to lose) them. So she tries ________________ (11 – to have) a systematic routine first thing.
She still divides her time between London and Oxford. On an Oxford day she starts _______________ (12 – to teach) at nine. She has ________________ (13 – to fit) her teaching into two days so the earlier she can persuade anyone ________________ (14 – to come) the better. She remembers _________________ (15 – to think) nine o’clock was outrageously early for a tutorial when she was a student, and some of her students do too. But on the whole they are quite good.
