【推荐2】“A good book is easy to find.” That is the _______ on a sign at Hernando Guanlao’s home in the Makati area of Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

Guanlao has _______ his home into a free public library. Visitors can borrow the books inside for free. Guanlao says he hopes his library will inspire people to read, _______ the young. The 72-year-old said that his library _______ books that all students can enjoy — from young children in kindergarten to _______ students in grade 12. He calls his library Reading Club 2000, which includes many different kinds of books.

He _______ his library more than 20 years ago when he set 50 books beside the walkway in front of his home. Guanlao’s _______ have grown greatly over the years — thanks to a continuous supply of books from donors.

Speaking of donors, he said, “They just _______ boxes of books outside my house.” He has also begun _______ books himself by sending reading materials to public schools in faraway communities.

Guanlao's ________ make a difference at a time when reading ability among students in the Philippines remains ________ . Some students in the Philippines are also facing learning delays（延迟）in math and science. He hopes to help more students ________ these problems.

Guanlao is ________ to stick to his goals. “My mission（使命） is to ________ used and donated books to others at no cost,” he said, “and to promote ________ through literature.”

【推荐3】Last year, I attended a class and discussed the topic of “paper books or e-books” with my classmates. The discussion was lively, but was left _______ because of several pros and cons (利弊) of both types of books and the personal _______ of different students.

According to an article from LA Times, a study discovered that 92% of 300 college students in America and other three countries _______ paper books. Many participants reported they had headaches for long screen time and are easily _______ when siding colorful pages.

I _______ that the 92 percentage is true, not just because it is the result of a study. Paper books can _______ another perspective (感受) to you reading experience through the _______ smell of the book, the feel of the _______ between your fingertips and the sense of progress being made throughout your reading.

However, pleasure comes at a _______. Physical books aren’t cheap ________ much room. As a person who moves often and loves written words, it can be a big ________ to move my mini library from one place to another, not to mention the money to buy those books. ________, besides taking up less space, e-books are more ________ than traditional books. Yet those ________ didn’t keep my interest for long. Nothing ________ the comforting feeling of curling up (蜷缩) with a hot cup of tea and a book.

【推荐2】The moment happened 30 years ago but it was still fresh in my memory. I was a college freshman and had _________ up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Just before my first _______ of the day my eyelids (眼皮) were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a _______. A few minutes’ nap (小睡) time before class couldn’t _________, I thought.

BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my _______ beating wildly trying to find the cause of the _________. My young professor was looking at me with a boyish smile on his face. He had _________ dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning!” he said still _________. “I am glad to see everyone is _________. Now let’s get started. ”

For the next hour I wasn’t __________ at all. It wasn’t from the shock of my professor’s textbook alarm clock. It was instead from the __________ discussion he led. With knowledge and good ____________ he made the material come ____________. His insight was full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he ________ with were contagious (有感染力的). I __________ the classroom not only wide __________ but a little smarter and a little better as well.

I learned something far more important than not __________ in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, do it with __________. What a wonderful place this world would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Don’t sleepwalk through your __________. Wake up! Let your love fill your work. Life is too __________ not to live it well.

【推荐3】Jeffrey is a millionaire. Years ago, after returning from abroad, he ________ his small company. Speaking of success, Jeffrey often tells about his extra expensive “school” fee, which he always ________ his success to.

After getting a Ph. D. degree, Jeffrey decided to return to the homeland, starting a company. Before leaving, he bought a Rolex watch with the ________ earned through years of work. At the airport he had to accept the ________ customs check. The watch on his wrist was also demanded to be taken down for ________. Jeffrey knew that carrying the specific goods out had to pay the tax, and he worried about paying it for his watch. So when he was checked, he told a lie that his watch was a ________ fake（假货）. When he was _________of his “smarts”, immediately, in the presence of Jeffrey, the officers _______ the watch, which cost nearly 100,000, into pieces on hearing Jeffrey’s words. Jeffrey was ________. Before he understood why, he was taken to the office to be examined ________. The officers looked over everything carefully in the box, and ________ him that he must accept the check and if found carrying fake goods, he would be ________ according to law! Suddenly, his face turned red, and he had nothing in mind after ________ the plane for long.

The additional high “school” fee that he had ever paid made him realize the value of ________, which he would remember as the ________ of his success forever.