6 . When I was young, my understanding of life was simple. This made it easier for me to deal with the world around me. As I grew up, things seemed more ________, which made life more challenging. Now, middle-aged, I find my ________ of the world is returning to the simple.

When I try to teach my daughter important ________ about life, I will ________ complicated things into small pieces. One of those basics is ________, for yourself, and for others. I teach my daughter to ________. To fail makes us feel bad, certainly, but not to have tried contributes to feeling ________, because you can’t respect yourself for it. And as the saying ________, if you don’t respect yourself, no one else will.

When I was seven or eight, I played at my cousin’s house with his toys. His family was better off, and he had many more toys. There was one in particular that I’d always desired, and I ________ it into my pocket. But a moment later, I ________, even at that age, that I would never enjoy playing with the toy. I would always know I had ________, and my evaluation of myself would ________. When his mother dropped me off later that day, I shamefacedly ________ out the toy and gave it back. She knew, I’m sure, what had happened, but she thanked me and never spoke of it again.

I hope to help my daughter ________ similar mistakes. She first has to gain self-respect before she can start respecting others. I believe in respect, because without it we’re all ________. I’m far from perfect in this regard. But I try my best, and I respect others for trying their best in this changing world.

9 . As a librarian, Jennifer William’s mother used to read to her children every day. Therefore, it was her mother who got her ________ to books. “Not until we went to kindergarten,” Williams told vadogwood.com, a local news site. “Until we went to college.”

When Williams, now 54, became a school teacher in Danville, Virginia, she wanted her students to fall in love with ________ just as she had. But early on, she realized that some kids had ________ access to books.

“It’s very ________ to teachers which kids are read to versus (相对于) kids who are not”, she said. “It’s obvious at the end of the first day of school.” To Williams, the solution was simple: Give kids books. In 2017, as part of an event called Engage Danville, she ________ 900 used children’s books over three days. Most people would be satisfied with that. Most.

“I was like, ‘________ could do that;’” she said. “I wanted to do something that’s going to ________ my faith, my dream, my everything.”So she set a new ________ for herself: Give away one million books. It sounds like an ________ number, but as Williams ________ on Facebook: “Don’t ________ in the bleachers (露天看台) if you aren’t willing to work hard out on the field!”

So she got to work, first by persuading (说服) friends to ________ books or money to buy books. Before long, as news of Williams’ project ________, strangers started leaving bundles of books on her front door.

In the four years she’s been doing all this, the Book Lady, as Williams has come to be known, has given away more than 78,000 books—only 922,000 more to reach her goal! And she’s not slowing down. It’s too important for kids with few ________.

“Reading can take you anywhere,” she told CNN. “You can feel ________ in time and space. If you can read, you can learn almost anything.”