A happy child has a hobby. That’s _________ my mom always says. My hobby is _________ the night sky. My sister’s hobby is skateboarding. Many people around us have hobbies, too. Some hobbies are ordinary like ours. But some people have very strange hobbies.

A friend of ________ collects rocks. Everywhere he goes, he stops and looks at ________. If he finds an interesting one, he takes it home and adds it to his collection. His mom says that he has to stop soon because his room is getting ________ of rocks.

My mom’s best friend collects salt and pepper shakers. But not just any salt and pepper shakers. They have to have something to do with ________. They can have a picture of a bear or be shaped like a bear — it doesn’t matter, _________it is a salt and pepper shaker with a bear on them somewhere.

I _________ a strange hobby when I was in Germany last year. While I was on a train, I saw a guy ________ a book. I recognized the title, so I said to the guy, “That is a good book. I really ________ reading it.” He said, “Yes, it is a good book. But I’m reading it for a very ________ reason. You can see that it has a green cover. My hobby is collecting books with green covers.” That’s a strange hobby.

I had a good conversation with him. He told me that he had more than one hundred books, all with green ________. He said that it was very ________ to find books with green covers. Green was not a color that publishers liked to use ________ book covers. He spent a lot of time in bookstores. He read a book, and if it was good and if the cover was green, he added it to his collection. His dream was to have one wall in his house with only green books on it.

Strange, you might say. But it’s his hobby. And ________ Mom always says, “A happy child has a hobby.”

What’s your hobby?

【推荐3】I have many good friends. Let me tell you something about them. The first one is Frank Brown. He doesn’t have a soccer ball, but his brother Alan does. They go to the _________ school and they love soccer. They play _________ at school with their friends. It’s relaxing. The second one is Gina Smith. She has _________ soccer balls, three volleyballs, four basketballs and five baseballs and bats. She loves sports, but she doesn’t play them—she only _________ them on TV! The last one is Wang Wei. He thinks soccer is difficult. He likes ping-pong. It’s easy for him. He has three ping-pong bats. After class, he likes _________ ping-pong with his classmates.

【推荐1】Many people enjoy going to the beach during the summer. But besides swimming and sunbathing (日光浴), _________ else can we do there? To make beach trips more _________, the Normandy region of France set up 12 seaside _________ this summer.

The libraries are small wooden houses on the sand. Open from July 7 to August 26, each of the houses has 1,000 books in it. Anyone is welcome to borrow a book there, but readers _________ stay in the chairs near the library. They can’t take them _________ to the sea. Otherwise (否则), the books could be damaged (损坏) by the sand and _________.

“It’s a perfect break for _________ and relaxing,” said 12-year-old Isabelle, a tourist at Normandy. She was reading The Secret Garden. “This is my _________ every afternoon.”

The libraries are part of the Normandy “Read at the Beach” _________. It started in 2005, with only three libraries at that time. __________ last year, more than 3,800 people borrowed books from the libraries. It’s reported that two more libraries will be built in the future.

【推荐2】Du Dejian is a rural (农村的) teacher who is in his sixties. Over the past 40 years, Du has received lots of visitors at the library he built.

Du noticed that his neighbors had difficulties as a result of limited (有限的) knowledge in 1980. ________ he made up his mind to set up a library in the village.

With ________ from his family, Du bought books, newspapers and magazines, mainly about agriculture. Then, on January 1, 1981, he opened his door to the ________ villagers to use the library for free. There weren’t as many visitors as he ________ at the beginning.

“At that time, people would ________ their own experience rather than books,” he said. “To attract (吸引) them, I began to send newspapers to their homes and explained the great ________ of technology.”

To enrich his collection, Du traveled to different cities-Beijing, Taiyuan, Xi’an and Zhengzhou-to buy books. So far, he has ________ more than 80,000 books and around 1,300 kinds of newspapers and magazines.

_________, more people became loyal (忠实的) readers in Du’s library. Since the library was open, he has offered more than 700 agricultural technology training courses.

“In recent years, with the development of the ________, the library has seen fewer readers,” he said, “I began to try new methods to ________ knowledge.”

He set up an online group and sent agricultural information to the villagers, helping them farm more scientifically.