Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word foreach blank from a list of choices given in a word bahk following tho passage. Read thopassage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in tho bank is identifiedby a. letter. Please mark tho corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with asingle line through tho centre. You may not use any of the words in tho bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

　　Many Brazilians cannot read. In 2000, a quarter of those aged 15 and older were functionallyilliterate (文盲） Many（36）do not want to. Only one literate adult in three reads book~ The（37）Brazilian reads 1.8 non-academic books a year, less than half the figure in Europe and the United States.
　　In a recent survey of reading habits, Brazilians came 27th out of 30 countries. Argentines, theirneighbours,（38）18th.
　　The government and businesses are all struggling in different ways to change this. On March 13 thegovernment（39）a National Plan for Books and Reading. This seeks to boost reading, by foundinglibraries and financing publishers among other hhings.
　　One discouragement to reading is that books are（40）. Most books have small print-runs, pushing.
　　up their price.
　　But Brazilians' indifference to books has deeper roots. Centuries of slavery meant the country's
　　leaders long（41）education. Primary schooling became universal only in the 1990s.
　　All this means Brazil's book market has the biggest growth（42）. in the western world.
　　But reading is a difficult habit to form. Brazilians bought fewer books in 2004, 89 million, includingtextbooks43by the government, than they did in 1991. Last year the director of Brazil's nationallibrary（44） . He complained that he had haft the librarians he needed and termites (白蚁) had eatenmuch of the（45）. That ought to be a cause for national shame.

A．Average
B．collection
C．distributed
D．exhibition
E．expensive 
F．launched
G．named
H．neglected
I．normal
J．particularly
K．potential
L．quit
M．ranked
N．simply
O．treasured

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