Вопрос: Work in groups. Read one of the extracts from the book Watching the English. The hidden rules of English behaviour by Kate Fox and say what the most popular pastimes of the English are. Choose a title for the extract you've read. 
1 Reading rules 
2 Rules of the game 
3 Pet rules and "petiquette" 
4 Television rules 
5 Cyberspace rules 
A We do watch quite a lot of television national average is about three to three anc half hours a day — but television cannot said to be killing the art of conversation. In ^ same survey, 97 per cent of respondents had a entertained or visited friends or relations in past month. I am also always somewhat skept about television viewing figures, ever since I involved in a research project in which a tearn psychologists installed video cameras in ordir people's sitting rooms to monitor how nr. television they watched and how they beha while watching. The subjects all filled in fo every day, saying what programmes they had • and estimating how much of each prograr they had actually watched. The differences between their estimates and reality showed that when people tell a sur researcher that they spent an evening, or an h "watching television", it is more than likeh they were doing no such thing. What they ( mean is that they had the television on i they chatted with family or friends, played the dog, read the newspaper, squabbled the remote, gossiped on the telephone, cut; toenails, nagged their spouse, cooked an mi J supper, did the ironing and hoovering, sh:«l at their children, fell asleep and so on, репи I occasionally only glancing at the television sae J during that period. 
В I would add that reading books ranks as even more popular than DIY and gardening in national surveys of leisure activity, and over 80 per cent of us regularly read a daily newspaper. Our passion for word games and verbal puzzles is well known, but it is also worth noting that every one of the non-verbal hobbies and pastimes that occupy our leisure time — such as fishing, stamp collecting, trainspotting, bird-watching, walking, doing sports, keeping pets, flower arranging, knitting and pigeon fancying — has at least one, if not many more specialist magazines devoted to it. The more popular hobbies each have it least half a dozen dedicated weekly or monthly publications, as well as umpteen internet sites, and ¦.e often spend much more time reading about our avourite pastime than we do practising it. 
D Keeping pets, for the English, is not so much a leisure activity as an entire way of life. In fact, "keeping pets" is an inaccurate and inadequate expression — it does not begin to convey the exalted status of our animals. An Englishman's home may be his castle, but his dog is the real king. People in other countries may buy luxurious five-star kennels and silk-lined baskets for their pets, but we, the English, let them take over the whole house. The unwritten rules allow our dogs and cats to sprawl all over our sofas and chairs, always hogging the best places in front of the fire or television. They get far more attention, affection, appreciation, encouragement and "quality time", than our children, and often better food. Imagine the most overindulged, well dressed, adored bambino in Italy, and you will get a rough idea of the status of the average English pet.
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Ответы:
1-B
2-E
3-D
4-A
5-C