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HOBBIES
Hobbies differ like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby according to your
__________ and taste you are lucky because your life becomes more interesting.
Hobbies are divided into four large ________: doing things, making things,
collecting things, and learning things.
The most popular of all hobby groups is doing things. It includes a
wide variety of activities, from gardening to travelling and from chess to volleyball.
____________ is one of the oldest man's hobbies. It is a well-known fact that
the English are very fond of gardening and growing flowers, especially roses.
Doth grown-ups and children are fond of playing different ________ games.
This is a relatively new hobby but it is becoming more and more popular.
Making things includes drawing, ________, making sculpture, designing
costumes, handicrafts. Two of the most famous hobby painters were President
Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill. Some ___________ write music or play
musical instruments. Bill Clinton, for example, plays the saxophone.
Almost everyone collects something at some period in his life: stamps, coins,
matchboxes, books, records, postcards, toys, watches. Some ___________ have no
real value. Others become so large and so valuable that they are housed in museums
and galleries. Many world-famous collections started in a small way with one or
two items. People with a good ______ of money often collect
paintings, rare ________ and other art objects. Such private collections are
sometimes given to museums, ___________ and picture galleries so that others
might take pleasure in seeing them.
No matter what kind of hobby a person has, he always has the _____________ of
learning much from it. By reading about the things he is interested in he is adding to
what he knows. Learning new things can be the most ____________ aspect of a
hobby.