Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks:

Surely there are now reasons why (1) ______ book ought to be dead, or at least very badly injured. If so, why does it not show proper respect for these reportedly less literate times (2) ______ die out? There is clearly more than a single answer to this question. Firstly, we have more leisure time than we (3) ______ to, and people are generally living longer, which means there is more time to do more (including reading books). As (4) ______ as this, there is the strength of the book as a tradition. We are all too dismissive of traditions in our modern world, but they can have very strong pull (5) ______ us.

Surely there are now reasons why (1) ______ book ought to be dead, or at least very badly injured.