_________THE SHORTAGES OF GOOD MEDICAL CARE, DISEASES ARE THE MOST...

35. _________the shortages of good medical care, diseases are the most terrible threat to those villagers.

A. Because B. Although C. Because of D. In spite of

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank

Louis Braille was (36) ____ son of a French leather worker. He (37) _____ blind at the age of three when he fell on

a tool in his father’s workshop. But Louis was a (38) ______ and talented boy. He wanted to be a musician, so he

learned to play the cello, and at the age of ten he (39) _____ a scholarship to the National Institute for Blind

Children in Paris. He could play the cello, (40) _____ he couldn’t read or write.