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Passage 16
On Saturday, Bexar County Digital Library—a $2.4 million, 4,000-square-foot space located on the south side of San Antonio—opens to the public. The library, built with $1.9 million in county tax money and $500,000 in private _1_, is stocked with 10,000 e-books, 500 e-readers, 48 computers, and 20 iPads and laptops. It has a children’s area, study rooms and a café. Most _2_，it will have no printed material.
This isn't the first time a public library has _3_ to go bookless. Considering our _4_ away

from print and toward all things digital, the idea of the bookless library no longer seems so _5_. Around the country, a number of public libraries have undergone _6_ transformations to cater to the needs of its visitors, often by moving and _7_ its book collections to make way for digital spaces that can easily adapt to emerging technologies.
Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia offers space for teens to create digital content like podcasts and video games. The District of Columbia Public Library system and the Columbus Metropolitan Library System in Ohio are renovating many of their locations to create all-digital areas and open spaces for _8_ to work together. Arizona State University and the Scottsdale Public Library system are even collaborating to attract small businesses and _9_ to work in libraries across the state. In New York City, 40 of the 62 Queens Libraries have been renovated in part to increase space for jobseekers who don’t have access to a computer at home. They are focused on programs and services like resume writing, job search tips and language classes. Public libraries now offer one program a day _10_ in the U.S.

A) scrutiny B) importantly C) patrons D) supplementing
E) innovative F) radical G) tentative H) attempted
I) enterpreneurs J) definitely K) donations L) consolidating
M) justified N) drift O) averagely

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1.[K]空格需填入名词，作介词in的宾语。此句说明建造图书馆资金的来源，从tax money和private可推断资金来源包括政府和私人捐献两种渠道，故选用donations。
2.[B]空格独立于主句之外，并由逗号与主句分隔开来，应为作状语的副词。根据空格前的most和have no printed material(无印刷材料)可推知，此处进一步介绍数码图书馆的特别之处，故选用importantly,体现出与前文 的递进关系。
3.[H]空格位于the first time所后接的从句中，该从句缺少谓语动词，助动词has提示此处应填入动词过去分词。This指代上文提及的数码图书馆，isn’t the first time表明这种模式之前已出现，根据句意此处应选用attempted，表示数码图书馆不是公立图书馆采用无书模式的首次尝试。
4.[N] our表明空格处应为名词。由方位词away from和toward推断此处的名词应表示一种“趋势”名词库中的drift“趋势”为本题答案。

5.[E]空格位于系动词seems之后，应为表语，而副词so提示此处应为形容词。根据上文提到的This isn’t the first time和本句中的no longer可以推断这种数码图书馆“并不新奇”，故此处选用innovative最为适合。
6.[F]空格在transformations前面，应为修饰该名词的定语，描述各地公共图书馆发生了怎样的转变。根据空格后提及的make way for digital spaces (为数码区腾出空间）可推知，传统图书馆的转变很大，故选用 radical“根本的”。
7..[L] and表明填入空格的词与moving为并列关系，应为动词的现在分词形式。by moving... collections是图书馆为数码区腾出空间的方式，故选用consolidating，意为图书馆通过“整合”藏书腾出更多空间。
8.[C]空格在介词for和不定式to work together之间，应为名词，构成for sb. to do sth.的结构，词库中的名词patrons符合句意，此处指“读者”。本句是对图书馆一般的描述，与“商业”、“生意”关系不大，故排除 entrepreneurs。
9.[I] and表明空格应填入与businesses并列的名词。图书馆除向“读者”开放之外，甚至还主动招商(attract small businesses)。词库中 entrepreneurs 最符合此处语境。
10.[O]句子主谓宾结构完整，故空格应为副词作状语。本段描述各公共图书馆提供的数字化服务，最后一句对全段内容做了小结。averagely符合句意，表明美国的公共图书馆“平均”每天提供一项此类服务。