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级真题卷二部分 级真题卷二部分 PAGE / NUMPAGES 级真题卷二部分 2014  年  6 月大学英语四级考试部分真题（  B 卷） Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions : For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following topic. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Suppose a foreign friend of yours is coming to visit China, what is the most interesting place you would like to take him/her to see and why? 注意：此部分试题请在 答题卡 1 上作答。 Part III Reading Comprehension (40 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 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. Many 36 do not want to. Only one literate adult in three reads books. The 37 Brazilian reads 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, spending hours a week with a book. Argentines, their neighbours, 38 18th. The government and businesses are all striving 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 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