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Test one Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)???? 25 min 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. A bookless life is an incomplete life. Books influence the depth and breadth of life. They meet the natural __47_ for freedom, for expression, for creativity and beauty of life. Learners, therefore, must have books, and the right type of book, for the satisfaction of their need. Readers turn __48_ to books because their curiosity concerning all manners of things, their eagerness to share in the experiences of others and their need to _49__ from their own limited environment lead them to find in books food for the mind and the spirit. Through their reading they find a deeper significance to life as books acquaint them with life in the world as it was and it is now. They are presented with a _50 __of human experiences and come to _51 _other ways of thought and living. And while _52_ their own relationships and responses to life, the readers often find that the_53_ in their stories are going through similar adjustments, which help to clarify and give significance to their own. Books provide __54_ material for readers’ imagination to grow. Imagination is a valuable quality and a motivating power, and stimulates achievement. While enriching their imagination, books _55_ their outlook, develop a fact finding attitude and train them to use leisure_56_. The social and educational significance of the readers books cannot be overestimated in an academic library. A) abundant B) characte