大学生英语竞赛练习题.doc

Section ADirections: 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 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.????Many Brazilians cannot read. In 2000, a quarter of those aged 15 and older were functionally illiterate（文盲）. Many __36__ do not want to. Only one literate adult in three reads books. 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, their neighbours, __38__ 18th.????The government and businesses are all struggling in different ways to change this. On March 13th the government __39__ 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 __40__. Most other books have small print-runs, pushing up their price.????But Brazilians indifference to books has deeper roots. Centuries of slavery meant the countrys leaders long __41__ education. Primary schooling became universal only in the 1990s.????All this means that Brazils 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, including textbooks __43__ by the government, than they did in 1991. Last year the director of Brazils national library __44__. He complained that he had half the librarians he needed and termites（白蚁） had eaten much of the __45__. That ought to be a cause for national shame.(A) aver