A. CAME B. MET C. REACHED D. OBTAINEDREAD THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AN...
27. A. came
B. met
C. reached
D. obtained
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet
to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions
A good deal of
fascinating
research has been done about the reading patterns of young
people, and it is surprising to discover at what an early age children start expressing
preferences for particular kinds of books. A recent report, which examined in detail the
reading habits of primary school children, showed that seven –year-old boys and girls
have clear view about what they want to read. Girls, in general, read more, and far more
girls than boys preferred reading stories. Boys were showing a taste for the more instant
appeal of picture stories, or else books about their hobbies.
The tastes continue unchanged until the children are teenagers. Apparently girls more in
general, but more fiction in particular. You could say that there are more opportunities for
girls to read fiction: magazines encourage the fiction habit in girls in their early teens, and
by their late teens, girls have probably moved on to the adult women's magazines.
Teenage "'tend to buy magazines about their hobbies: sports, motorcycles, heavy
transport and so on.