Key – Bookshops are back
Question 1
a. False. Libreria, in the East End of London, which is 830 square feet of books, and
more books. Its wooden display units are on wheels so that the floor space can
be opened up ...
b. False. It’s got a whisky bar too and a printing press in the basement that might
one day publish its own titles.
c. True. the Waterstones on Tottenham Court Road has its own cinema.
d. True. High street clothes
and gifts stores such as Oliver Bonas and Urban Outfitters have for their part
created “book spots” on their shop floors.
Question 2
a. Bookshops
are romantic according to classic films because in them, people spend time
there, walking round in a relaxed way, meeting fascinating people for the first
time, chatting them up, purchasing books, having a coffee, starting a
relationship which ends in disaster, then returning to the bookshop.
b. Digital
books are quick and easy to buy and are also a lot cheaper.
Question 3
a. defunct
b. (to) bother c.
lure d. revamp
e. (to) surpass/surpassed
Question
4
a. The e-book is being chosen by more and more
readers.
b. If the physical didn’t have
something, (then) people wouldn’t come inside.
c. The writer said that she hoped
that in years to come, couples would be telling their friends how they had met
in that old bookshop in 2016!
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