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One of the joys in life visually impaired (受损的) people cannot experience     1    (convenient) might be reading, but a new bookstore that officially opened on Dec 3 has made that possible.

    2    (locate) at 226 Nanchang Road in Shanghai, the Niguang 226 bookstore is a 37-square-meter space designed specially for such     3    (individual). The new store offers more than 300 braille (盲文) books by Chinese and foreign authors, barrier-free movies     4     even traditional Chinese paintings made by people with physical challenges. To help the visually impaired find their way to the store, special paths     5    (extend) from Nanchang Road to Niguang 226 have been laid. The lamp posts outside the store have also been decorated     6     braille street signs. To ensure the     7    (safe) of its visitors, Niguang 226 has no sharp comers. In addition, the store has an accessible reading corner that     8    (equip) with an electronic visual aid device that can help colorblind people to read. Many of the barrier-free facilities in the bookstore were included following suggestions by Han Ying, honorary store manager,     9     lost her vision due to illness. There are currently seven members working at the bookstore, including Han and her guide dog. The other five     10    (be) two visually impaired and three able-bodied employees.

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Book of the Week: Tomorrow’s People by Paul Morland

If you haven’t “been paying attention”, the message of this book is “going to come as a shock”, said David Aaronovitch in The Times.     1     argues that the “big demographic problem” of the future isn’t     2     there will be “too many people” on the planet, but that there will soon be “too few”. The world’s population is growing now, and in this “pithy and well-structured book”, Paul Morland, a lecturer at Birkbeck College in London, predicts it will go on doing so for a while yet,     3    (peak) at around 11 billion later this century. But that trend, he argues, is deceptive, because it depends on rapid growth in a few places,     4    sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile, across much of the rest of the planet, fertility rates     5    (fall) so fast that those dying are not being replaced. “Most of the West reproduces below or well below replacement rate,     6     does China.” Morland’s prediction is that the world’s population will fall significantly, with a profound effect on “social dynamics”.

    7     the heart of Morland’s analysis is a process known as the “demographic transition”, said Sarah Harper in Literary Review. This holds that as societies develop economically, life expectancy increases-leading to a population surge. But then, as such societies become     8    (prosperous), women start having fewer children and their populations age and decline. The demographic transition is particularly advanced in Japan, a country with 79,000 centenarians, said Colin Freeman in The Daily Telegraph. Italy, Bulgaria and Russia are also shrinking fast. By contrast, Nigeria’s population     9    (expect) to double to 400 million by 2050. Tomorrow’s People is a well-argued work that provides a “concise chronicle of our global breeding habits”, and which is “illuminating on     10     the ebbs and flows(消长) of population can influence history”.