Britain is very fortunate in its system of public lending-libraries. These libraries have a ____1___ of some 115 million books. And about one-third of the population are ____2____ of public libraries. This lending and reference library service is, with some limitation, free.
Public libraries not only lend books, music scores (乐谱)and records, but also supply special libraries to ____3____, among children , patients in hospital and prisoners, and they ____4_____ in many kinds of extra activities, ____5___ reading, lectures, film shows, music circles and cooperation in adult education.
