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"Question to anyone who speaks English !"

Yesterday was my English exam, and there was a question that I disagreed on with all the English teachers in the school, so in order to know the exact correct answer, the best thing to do is to ask British people (I am Egyptian by the way). This is the question:

Begin the following phrase with the word "Books", so that it would give the same meaning:
-People still read books.

My answer: Books are still being read by people.
The teachers' answer: Books are still read by people.

There are only 2 students in the school that wrote my answer: Me and my friend, and we're both the best English students in the school. And I mean the BEST, there is no one else in the school that can be compared to us. While on the other hand, all 3 English teachers in the school say that the correct answer is the other one, so ?

Oh noes, I've got to mess up an exam so I can see if they thwart mojojojo

And Lindgren, Memo's right, and you're wrong.
Someone always answers it in the first five, albeit given a light sprinkling of laughter.

Both would be correct but your answer has a slight tense error, it just seems a little unusual., In the way you used the infiniative.

I think your topic is written strangely from start to finish... but you are Egyptian and fairly young.