Direction: Read the following passage and answer the following.

A reason why children at school read books is to please their teacher. If the teacher has said that his, or the other is a good book, and that it is a sign of boys and girls, anxious to please their teacher, get the book and read it.

Two or three of them may genuinely like it. For its own sake, and be grateful to the teacher for putting it in their way. But many will not honestly like it, or will persuade themselves that they like it. And that does a great deal of harm.

The people who cannot like the book run the risk of two things happening to them; either they are put off the idea of the book-let us suppose the book was David Copperfield-either they are put off the idea of classical novels, or they take a dislike to Dickens, and decide firmly never to waste their time on anything of the sort again; or they get a guilty conscience about the whole thing, they ought to like and therefore there is something wrong with them. 

They are quite mistaken, of course. There is nothing wrong with them. The mistake has all been on the teacher's side. What has happened is that they have been shoved up against a book before they were ready for it. It is like stomach-ache, and a rooted dislike of that article of food evermore.