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洛基英语，中国在线英语教育领导品牌 Part ⅣReading Comprehension（Reading in Depth）（25 minutes） Section A Directions:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage. If our society ever needed a reading renaissance（复兴）, its now. The National Endowment for the Arts released “Reading at Risk” last year, a study showing that adult reading47 have dropped 10 percentage points in the past decade, with the steepest drop among those 18 to 24. “Only one half of young people read a book of any kind in 2002. We set the bar almost on the ground. If you read one short story in a teen—ager magazine, that would have48 ,” laments a director of research and analysis. He49 the loss of readers to the booming world of technology, which attracts would—be leisure readers to E—mail, IM chats, and video games and leaves them with no time to cope with a novel. “These new forms of media undoubtedly have some benefits,” says Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You.Video games 50 problem—solving skills; TV shows promote mental gymnastics by 51 viewers to follow complex story lines. But books offer experience that cant be gained from these other sources, from52 vocabulary to stretching the imagination. “If theyre not reading at all,” says Johnson, “thats a huge problem.” In fact, fewer kids are reading for pleasure. According to data53 last week from the National Center for Educational Statistics long—term trend assessment, the number of 17—year—olds who reported never or hardly ever reading for fun 54 from 9 percent in 1984 to 19 percent in 2004. At t