6. Rhyme Time

Read the poem. What is the main idea of it?

Leisure

by W.H. Davies

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?

No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep and cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this, if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

7 . There are seven gaps in the following text. You need to fill them with the sentences below in the correct place. There are two extra sentences you will not need. The first one has been done for you as an example.

Too Much Time Watching TV? You May Be a Couch Potato

…..1………. For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a couch potato. A couch is a piece of furniture that people sit on while watching TV.

Robert Armstrong, an artist from California, developed the term couch potato in 1976……2…….Mr. Armstrong also helped to write a funny book about life as a full-time television watcher. It is called the “Official Couch Potato Handbook”.

Couch potatoes enjoy watching TV just as mouse potatoes enjoy working on computers…3……The description of mouse potato became popular in 1993.

Too much time inside the house using a computer or watching TV can cause someone to get cabin fever. A cabin is a simple house usually built far away from the city. …….4………

Cabin fever is not really a disease .…5…… This is especially true during the winter when it is too cold or snowy to do things outside. Often children get cabin fever if they cannot go outside to play. So do their parents.

Some people enjoy spending a lot of time in their homes to make them nice places to live. This is called nesting or cocooning. Birds build nests out of sticks to hold their eggs and baby birds. Some insects build cocoons around themselves for protection while they grow and change. Nests and cocoons provide security for wildlife. ……….6………..The terms nesting and cocooning became popular more than twenty years ago. . These people then had children.

Now these children are grown and have left the nest. They are in college……….7………. Now these parents are living alone without children in their empty nest. They have become empty nesters.

A. However, people can experience boredom if they spend too much time inside their homes.

B. Some unusual words describe how a person spends his or her time.1

C. They describe people buying their first homes and filling them with many things.

D. It is the device that moves the pointer, or cursor, on a computer screen.

E. They have their own nest.

F. Or they are married and starting families of their own far away.

G. People go there to relax and enjoy quiet time.

H. Several years later, the term was listed as a trademark with the U.S. government.

I. An electric machine which is used for storing, organizing and finding words.