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Directions: In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41- 45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks.
or around a decade, a group of campaigners has been arguing that the public should not have to pay to read the results of the scientific research which it has, through its taxes, financed. 41..
Needless to say, most existing publishers of such information, who make a good business out of selling it to what is more or less a captive academic audience, are not too keen on the idea of “open access”— i.e, publication free to anyone. 42.. The NIH also plans to make it easy for researchers to do its bidding by spending $2m 4m a year supporting an electronic archive into which these papers can be deposited. This will be managed by America’s National Library of Medicine.
44.. Elias Zerhouni, the NIH’s director, acknowledged that the step back was an attempt to “preserve the role”of these groups.