【推荐1】The brown bear was walking quietly behind the pink duck, ready to put his paws around her neck and throw her into a pot of boiling soup.

We turned the________. While I laughed quietly at the impracticality of a bear boiling water to________a duck, I lifted my head to find little Victoria sat huddled next to my am, honestly________to turn the page and find her favorite pink creature in a bear's________.

My________began to wander. I________the Thursday when Victoria ran into the reading room showing a golden certificate from her________. "Best reader," it showed. A smile came across my face as I looked into the eyes of the 7-year-old who just last year was________in first grade________her reading was quite poor.

It was the same________that had filled my face six months before, when Victoria joined the________program. After spending the first term answering a lot of questions, I________that Victoria's talkative nature and________for answers overshadow her desire to________and read. I________her energy and great curiosity and fueled it with my own enthusiasm. For every________she presented, I took her to scan the library shelves________a related book. I watched her eyes grow with excitement as I________helped her press through the stories, a journey in search of her ________.

Though I go to the library each week to be these kids'________, I come out, having been their student. They have introduced me to a side of me who I never realized existed.

【推荐2】“Bookshops are places to let your imagination fly high, with so many possible ________ to discover,” says Laura Iverson. She is one of the ________ at Darling Reads bookshop in West Yorkshire, England.

For Iverson, the best thing about working in a bookshop is ________ new books to readers. “ ________ beats that smile when they find the perfect book,” she says. ________ , when it comes to choosing the right one, she has some useful tips.

Don't feel you have to ________ a book because your friend likes it," Iverson says. "Stick to your own interests and choose what ________ you. "

She also ________ asking booksellers for suggestions because it could open your ________ to a new book or writer you would never have considered. "Bookshop staff are so ________ and absolutely love talking about books all day. "

Iverson says that one of her ________ books is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. She remembers ________ reading it when she was around 12 years old, and not being able to put it ________ . This is one of the things Iverson loves about reading. "No matter where you are, or what you're doing, you can be ________ into another world, once you a pick up a book that fascinates you, in a matter of ________ . "

【推荐1】In the autumn of 1985, I entered the University of Pittsburgh. When studying there, I found myself starting a class I never ______ I’d be in. My advisor told me that I needed to study a foreign language to ______ graduation requirements. There were not many ______, so I signed up for Chinese.

On the first day of Chinese class, I found myself ______ by about 15 other students. Most were students of East Asian Languages and Literatures. All were ______ how hard the class would be. Some had heard stories that Chinese was one of the world’s most ______ languages, and China was not a country most of us knew much about. None of us had ever been to China or knew any Chinese.

______, it turned out to be the most ______ class in my life. Our Chinese instructors were not only language teachers but also cultural ambassadors (大使).They went out of their way to ensure we had enough chances to ______ the language outside the classroom — not a ______ task in a city like Pittsburgh at a time before anybody had heard of the Internet. Thanks to their ______, I met others at Pittsburgh with an interest in China and East Asian Studies, and ended up becoming ______ in various volunteer projects connected with China at Pittsburgh.

By the time I graduated in 1989, I had several friends living in China, and I had ______ Chinese study. In early 1990, ______ to make further progress on my Chinese based on the Chinese language ______ Pittsburgh had given me, I left for Beijing, China, where two other graduates from Pittsburgh were living. They helped me find a job teaching English.