SECTION III: READING

Part 1. Questions 56 – 65

Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.

If you (56) _____ to be walking in your local park tomorrow and you find an abandoned book with a label inside (57) _____ 'Read and Release me', don't just treat it as a joke. You've probably come (58) _____ an example of 'book-crossing', a book-sharing movement started in 2001 by American software developer Ron Hornbaker, whose stated aim is to 'make the (59)_____ world a library'. Book-crossers 'release' books (60) _____ by passing them on to friends, or else by leaving them in public places for others to pick up, or 'catch', and then read, before they (61) _____ turn release them back 'into the wild'. (62) _____ a book has been 'caught', the person finding it is encouraged to record the event by logging on to the book-crossing website and entering the book's ID number written on the label. That (63) _____ , both the original owner and subsequent readers of the book can keep track of its progress. Over half a million people worldwide participate in book-crossing, 'releasing' books in a (64) _____ range of locations including cafés, airports, bus stations, telephone boxes and even underwater in public fountains. Often a book is left in a place (65) _____ is relevant to its title or content: Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express on a train, for example, or an archeology book in a museum.

If you (56) _____ to be walking in your local park tomorrow