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1、2014年6月英语四级选词填空真题BrazilA nation of non-readersMANY Brazilians cannot read. In 2000, a quarter ofthose aged 15 and older were functionally illiterate. Many simply do not want to. Only oneliterate adult in three reads books. The average Brazilian reads 1.8 non-academic books a
2、year—less than half the figure in Europe and the United States. In a recent survey of readinghabits, Brazilians came 27th out of 30 countries, spending 5.2 hours a week with a book.Argentines, their neighbours, ranked 18th.In rare accord, government, businesses and NGOs are
3、all striving in different ways to changethis. On March 13th the government launched a National Plan for Books and Reading. Thisseeks to boost reading, by founding libraries and financing publishers among other things.The Brazil Reader Institute, an NGO, brings books to peopl
4、e: it has installed lending libraries intwo S?o Paulo metro stations, and is planning one in a Carnival samba school. It is starting tobe common to see characters in television soap operas shown reading. Cynics note that Globo,the biggest broadcaster, is also a big publisher
5、 of books, newspapers and magazines.One discouragement to reading is that books are expensive. At S?o Paulo's book fair this week,“O Código Da Vinci” was on sale for 32 reais—more than a tenth of the official minimum monthlywage. Most other books have small print-runs, pushi
6、ng up their price.But Brazilians' indifference to books has deeper roots. Centuries of slavery meant thecountry's leaders long neglected education. Primary schooling became universal only in the1990s. Radio was ubiquitous by the 1930s; libraries and bookshops have still not
7、caught up.“The electronic experience came before the written experience,” says Marino Lobello, of theBrazilian Chamber of Books, an industry body.All this means that Brazil's book market has the biggest growth potential in the western world,reckons Mr Lobello. That notion ha
8、s attracted foreign publishers, such as Spain's Prisa-Santillana, which bou
