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.