1 . Books are very important for us in our life. Books teach us about the world and open our minds to amazing new ideas. And where’s the best place to _________ piles (成堆的) and piles of enjoyable books? The library! But what if you live far, far away from the library? Sometimes, the library can _________ you!

Some families in the Gobi Desert travel from place to place _________ their animals. A library in a building would not _________ for them, because it couldn’t move. But a camel library can!

The first _________ libraries in England were pulled by horses. Now trucks do the _________ . Library trucks, also called bookmobiles, drive all around the city and into the country. Some villages in the mountains of Thailand, _________ , can not be _________ by truck. To bring books, you have to walk or ride an elephant. Besides elephants, there are some other   _________ that help move the ______________ . Luis Soriano, a librarian in Colombia, ______________ up and down the hills of Colombia every weekend with his donkeys (驴), bringing ______________ to children who live in faraway villages.

Books are delivered to other places in ______________ ways. In the icy Arctic areas of Canada, kids who live in small towns there get books in the ______________ from libraries in bigger cities. When they’ve ______________ reading the books, they bring them to the post office to ______________ them back.

Before cell phones, if you wanted to make a ______________ outside your house, you used a phone box. Now that most people ______________ their own phones, some telephone boxes in England have been ______________ libraries! Wouldn’t it be nice to have a tiny library on the corner of your street? The good news is it’s open 24 hours a day. The ______________ news is if you want to sit down, you’ll take up the whole library.

2 . About 20 minutes away from River Campus, one might hear sounds of magical flights at the mysterious Mushroom House of Powder Mills Park. The private houses, _________ as the landmark of Town of Perinton, show off extraordinary architectural _________ with tree-like doors and wooden sculptures, treasure-filled mosaics, and naturalistic components in both inside and _________.

This odd artistic _________ has gained the Mushroom House its own official website and widespread media coverage. Since the house’s _________, it has actively been covered by many media. Much like Disney’s Pixie Hollow, the Mushroom House appears to be a collection of “found” parts. The _________ starts from the underground garage to the tunnel, a reminder of the University’s tunnel system, _________ the outer of the Mushroom House.

The round tops and inner branches of the Mushroom House are in good condition, _________to any old mushrooms found in a backyard. But the different types of glass, with their unique shapes and materials, used to build walls of the Great Room and the master bathroom lend the inside a colorful personality. Though _________, the curves (曲线) of the ceilings in all four mushrooms create acoustics (音响效果) that its website__________ that of Carnegie Hall in New York City. __________ builders Peter Strong and William Ashton, the four 80-ton Mushroom Houses were __________ from models on the ground. The outside Mushroom House was then __________ with works of art, including fashionable lighting and handmade bricks, hobbit-like doors, tree and __________ sculptures, sand-molded walls and ceilings, custom wood furniture, and iron railings.

These works of art were all designed and __________ by local artists. Though this seems like a dream, it carries a sweet past.