Exercises
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41 Match the words in the left and right columns to restore the collocations from the text. Give the context where they are used.
| 1. | irreversible | body of literature | a. | 1. | criterion | of creativity | a. | |
| 2. | save | calm | b. | 2. | heartbreaking | listings | b. | |
| 3. | go | at one's fingertips | c. | 3. | selection | indefinitely | c. | |
| 4. | humanitarian | with despair | d. | 4. | fare | value | d. | |
| 5. | cathedral | into non-existence | e. | 5. | arbitrary | in order | e. | |
| 6. | lie | fraction | f. | 6. | conscious | capacity | f. | |
| 7. | negligible | of wisdom | g. | 7. | play | of choice | g. | |
| 8. | overwhelmed | the heritage | h. | 8. | condensed | panels | h. | |
| 9. | wealth | premature encouragement | i. | 9. | disagree | from chaff | i. | |
| 10. | by deliberate | novelists | j. | 10. | injection | task | j. | |
| 11. | men | changes | k. | 11. | be | of one's inadequacy | k. | |
| 12. | abandon | issues | l. | 12. | permanent | selection | l. | |
| 13. | immense | to the flames | m. | 13. | store | well/better | m. | |
| 14. | addle | of genius | n. | 14. | storage | god | n. | |
| 15. | supreme | passions | o. | 15. | inhibit | in principle | o. | |
| 16. | destructive | minds | p. | 16. | sort the wheat | cultural and scientific growth | p. | |
| 17. | give | design | q. | 17. | q. |
42 Answer the questions on the text.
- Where and when is the story set?
- What is the origin of the human colony on the planet of Thalassa?
- What kind of visitors is the community hosting?
- Why did Moses Kaldor have mixed feelings about the treasure of human knowledge?
- Why couldn't he find his favourite pieces of literature and art at the Lassan library?
- Why had an immense body of classical literature been condensed or wholly purged from the local lists?
- What was the dilemma that had haunted Moses Kaldor for years?
- What was stopping Moses from being “generous”?
- What prompted him to think that terrans should share the fruits of the now non-existent civilisation?
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