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Many Brazilians cannot read. In 12000, a quarter of those aged 15 and older were functionally illiterate (文盲). Many【C1】______ do
Many Brazilians cannot read. In 12000, a quarter of those aged 15 and older were functionally illiterate (文盲). Many【C1】______ do
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Many Brazilians cannot read. In 12000, a quarter of those aged 15 and older were functionally illiterate (文盲). Many【C1】______ do not want to. Only one literate adult in three reads books. The【C2】______ Brazilian reads 1.8 non-academic books a year, less than half the figure in Europe and die United States. In a recent survey of reading habits, Brazilians came 27th out of 30 countries. Argentines, their neighbors,【C3】______ 18th.
The government and businesses are all struggling in different ways to change this. On March 13 the government【C4】______ a National Plan for Books and Reading. This seeks to boost reading, by founding libraries and financing publishers among other things.
One discouragement to reading is that books are【C5】______ 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【C6】______ education. Primary schooling became universal only in the 1990s.
All this means Brazil’s book market has the biggest growth【C7】______ in the western world.
But reading is a difficult habit to form. Brazilians bought fewer books in 2004, 89 million, including textbooks【C8】______ by the government, than they did in 1991.
Last year the director of Brazil’s national library【C9】______. He complained that he had half the librarians he needed and termites (白蚁) had eaten much of the 【C10】______. That ought to be a cause for national shame.
A) average I) normal
B) collection J) particularly
C) distributed K) potential
D) exhibition L)quit
E) expensive M)ranked
F) launched N)simply
G) named O)treasured
H) neglected
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