Inside view
Conversation 1
2. Answers: p16
Joe: 1 Andy: 2 Janet: 3,4
3. Answers:
1. It is a feature programme which reviews recently published books
2. None of them have read all of the books
3. He’s annoyed
4. It features new books that may have a London angle, but not necessarily.
5. Because Charles Dickens’ books are always on TV
6. She knows quite a lot about Dickens because she is studying his work at university.
7. It's a biography which describes the London locations which are the settings formany of Dickens' books.
8. Yes.
Conversation 2
5. Answers:
Portsmouth;
novels;
around the law courts in the centre of London ;
He describes hardship, poverty and crime in London;
Great Expectation
6. Answers：p17
1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (d) 4. (c) 5. (c)/(d)
7. Answers: p18
(1) being at all fair
(2) gets on my nerves
(3) stressed
(4) the studio
(5) read the next episode
(6) a court reporter
(7) the most famous characters
(8) a social commentator
(9) the new biography
Everyday English
8. Answers：p19
1. (b) 2. (a) 3. (a) 4. (b) 5. (a)
Outside view
2. Answers：p21
The topics that are mentioned are: 3, 4 and 6.
3. Answers:
1.It's best suited to the download generation.
2.Although the interview says “No one in the industry is suggesting that the conventional bookshop is dead”, the figures discussed indicate that the conventional bookshop will lose out to digital publishing.
3. Downloadable books sell more than hardbacks and paperbacks.
4. The e-book is delivered in a very convenient way.
4. Answers：
The man looks like a publisher or an editor, you cash tell from the environment he is in. the woman looks like an e-book purchaser. (Note: She is in fact an author.)
5. Answers:
(1) undergoing a fundamental change
(2) 600 per cent growth
(3) Consuming content
(4) Get it edited
(5) Click of a few buttons
(6) Earning money
(7) For an author
(8) Never really catch on
6. Answers: p22
1. booming market, massive growth
2. circulate work without a publisher, publishing is simple, earn revenue form the moment they publish
Listening in
Talk
Answers：p23
1. (b) 2. (d) 3. (a) 4. (d)
Passage 1
3. Answers:
1. it began over 20 years ago
2. about once every four or five weeks
3. ten
4. the host prepares dinner and then a discussion starts
5. modern novels, classics, non-fictionlike history and travel writing
4. Answers：
1. (d) 2. (a) 3. (c) 4. (b)
Passage 2
7. Answers：p25
| place | author | work |
| London | Charles Dickens William Shakespeare | Oliver Twist Romeo and Juliet |
| Oxford | JRR Tolkien | Lord of the Rings |
| Hampshire and Bath | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| West Yorkshire | Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë | Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights |
| The Lake District | William Wordsworth | “I wandered lonely as a cloud” |
8.
1. I'm not a professional literary specialist
2. their close links with well-known writers
3. the home of many well-known writers
4.the memorial of great British writers
5. rich in its literary history
6. because of the recent series of films
7. because it was the home of the three sisters
8. also made into successful films
9. around the English-speaking world
10. whose work contributes to
