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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
【C6】
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答案
H
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