Spending time in a bookshop can be quite     1     (enjoy), whether you are a book-lover or merely you are there to buy a book as a gift. You may even have entered the shop just     2    (find) shelter from a sudden shower of rain. Whatever the reason, you can soon become     3    (total) unaware of your surroundings.

You soon become absorbed in one book or another, just out of     4    (curious) and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent far too much time there and have to hurry away to keep a     5    (forget) appointment without buying a book eventually, of course.

This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop. There are not many places     6     it is possible to do this. An assistant always approaches you, greeting “Can I help you?     7     assistant might look as if she were not interested in selling a single book.

You should be careful not to     8    (attract) by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy in enter the shop looking for a book about ancient coins and to come out     9    (carry) a copy of the latest best-selling novel. This sort of thing can be not worthy. Apart from spending a huge sum of money, you can waste a great deal     10     time wandering from section to section.

Books were my true friends when I was 12 years old. I was so thankful that the authors wrote those books. The     1     (kind) they offered me with their books saved my life. My     2     (big) dream was to become an author. I decided I     3     (work) hard and realize my dream so that I could write books     4     would help other teenagers the way those books helped me.