Can you imagine how different your life would be if you did not know how to read and write?Many of the things you 1 for granted during an ordinary day would no longer be 2 if you could not read.You would miss the basic 3 you depend on for simple activities- 4 from following instructions on a medicine bottle to 5 traffic signs.If you could not read 6 , newspapers, and magazines, you would be out of 7 with the world around you.Your understanding of that world would be 8 even further without the insight (见识) provided by stories, poems and novels.If you could not 9 , you would be unable to record information and ideas for other people. 10 , you would lose the personal pleasure of keeping a 11 to explore your private thoughts, creating 12 world in a story, or capturing your feelings 13 the words of a poem or song.Try to imagine how different life would be if 14 could read and write.The shape of our entire 15 would change.Obviously the printing and publishing industry would not 16 .The absence of reading and writing would 17 a surprising number of other organizations, including the automotive industry, the business machines and computer industries, 18 electronic communication companies.The 19 , of course, is that the printing and publishing industry is a very important part of every one of those organizations.Modern life depends on communications, 20 written communication.