3 . Seven-year-old Maggie Kuznia loves books, but she seems to love sharing the stories she reads even more. Qnce or twice a week, the little girl puts a few books in her backpack and gets ready to _______ the elderly at Good Samaritan Society.

Maggie’s mom, Tiffany Kuznia, works as the activity director at the retirement facility and often brings her daughter with her to _______. One day, as little Maggie was packing her bag, Tiffany Kuznia _______ her to bring her toys. Maggie quickly replied that she had _______ plans for the day. “I’m going to bring books and I’m going to read to the residents.” she _______.

With time, Maggie has become so beloved among the residents that she even has “_______” she reads to every week. She often visits each one for over an hour with her mom regularly checking in on her to make sure she isn’t overstaying her _______. Much to Maggie’s _______, the residents are more than happy to have her around for extended periods of time. The _______ usually leads to coloring books and doing puzzles with her elderly friends, who ________ Maggie a granddaughter of their own.

Maggie hopes to inspire other kids of her age to read to the elderly. ________ polishing her reading abilities and having a group of devoted ________, her senior friends are always ready to help her when she trips up on a ________ word. As for the residents, Maggie seems to ________ their day. “I think the intergenerational part is so good,” Patti Griggs, a resident Maggie has befriended, said. “Everybody likes to have the ________ of another person and be special to them.”

4 . As COVID-19 restrictions come to an end, foreign visitors have been returning to Paris. Outdoor booksellers called “bouquinistes” have now made their _________ to the neighborhood near the city’s famous Seine River. Many thought the pandemic would _________ their businesses and the tradition of selling by the river, which _________ over 500 years.

Rachid Boianouand is a(n) _________ sailor and fishing boat mechanic. He is now a bookseller. He opened his large green wooden _________ of used books and placed it on a wall _________ the river in the heart of Paris. He sells second-hand books to _________ as they pass by. He smiled as he said “I always love beautiful books, and I think why not share this _________ and share the books and authors I love with other people.”

The city council(委员会) recently _________ Boianouand and 17 other new river side booksellers. This brings the __________ number of booksellers along the river to 230. The booksellers’ riverside spots are __________ sought-after. The Paris city council __________ the spots to be used for five years. The booksellers don’t __________ rent, but they must stay open __________ four days a week. In normal times, __________ summers help with the slower sales of the winter months.

Jan and Maria - Aida Vandemoortele are visitors from Belgium(比利时). They enjoyed ____________ the old books and newspapers for sale. 68-year-old Jan said, “It’s only in Paris that you get to these __________ with wonderful books.”

The Seine book business is not only for tourists, __________, Parisians also love to walk along the river and visit the book sellers’ offerings. Kubilai Iksel, a 27-year-old Parisian, said, “It’s very __________ that new sellers have arrived, and it’s __________ that the Seine book business isn’t going to disappear. It’s one of the most wonderful things about Paris.”

6 . I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria.I was a(n) _________reader, and what I read were British and American children’s books.I began to write when I was seven.I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my _________ were white and blue-eyed. They played in the snow. They ate apples, and they talked a lot about the _________，how lovely it was that the sun had _________.

What this demonstrates is how _________we can be influenced by what we read, particularly as children. Because all I had read were foreign books, I had become _________ that books had to have _________ in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify.

Things _________ when I discovered African books. There weren’t many of them available, and they weren’t quite as easy to _________ as the foreign books.

But __________ writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye I went through a mental __________in my view of literature.I __________ that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate,could also __________ in literature. I started to write about things I recognized. What the __________ of African writers did for me was this: It saved me from having a __________ story of what books are.

7 . There are some books that I will never take off my daughter’s bookshelf. Most of those books are_________, books.

Picture books create concrete (具体的) images in readers’ minds. They come alive when they’re being_________. My daughter, 8 years old, is a_________reader. She can sit down with almost any book and read it all by herself for hours._________, I still read to her. When it’s bedtime, she asks me to_________her a picture book, which gives us lots of joy.

Picture books are the campfire (篝火) story of the reading world. Picture books are so_________that they are able to bring people together easily. They’re_________enough to be compelling (引人入胜的) or short enough to hold your interest. They’re better than other books when it comes to the_________of language. They can tell complete stories in thirty-two pages or less. Reading a thirty-two-page book is not a(n)_________for a girl who can read a 500-page book on her own. However, reading isn’t always about challenging oneself. Sometimes reading is about sharing a__________with a loved one.

Some picture books aren’t fit for my daughter as she__________. But the ones that really draw her in and need to be read aloud will always be__________for her. So this is why I’ll never stop reading picture books with my__________. We’re reading together because it__________us pleasure. That’s why I’ll always keep picture books on her__________.

8 . Three mornings a week, Iona walks six blocks from Eastern High School to Payne Elementary School. She ________ at the front desk just after 8: 30 a. m. and makes her way to a ________ , where she’ll be teaching second-and third-graders who are full of energy after the school day.

Iona, a senior at Eastern High, ________ this work back in the ninth grade. It’s run by Reach, a Washington D. C. nonprofit, which trains high school ________ like her to be reading tutors (教师) for elementary school students. It’s a tutoring program that works in two ________ . It’s serving a(n) ________ need in the city: Two-thirds of students in D. C. public schools can’t ________ and write at grade level when they start high school. Reach ________ these older students to become ________ readers by giving them the tools to teach younger kids.

Tutoring programs that ________ younger and older students are ________ . But most rely on ________ students. Reach turns the ________ on its head: Most of the teenage tutors start the ________ reading between the fourth-and sixth-grade level... The tutors ________ training in literacy (读写能力) instruction and they’re ________ as role models. With Reach, teens are given the ________ of helping a younger student. That’s a big ________ for them.

Iona says she ________ reading a lot more than she did when she started almost four years ago. She hasn’t decided on her future plans, but she does ________ one thing: She wants to work with kids.

10 . When I was a child, there wasn't much for me to read. It was not until junior high school that I began to ______ traditional Chinese classical novels. And books from other countries became ______ to me after I had been admitted into the university.

The first English novel that I read was Jane Eyre. Though ______ for a first-year student at university, I spent hours and hours ______ the meaning of every word and sentence. It took me almost half a year to ______ the book. With Jane Eyre ______ my heart and soul, I was even more ______ in the rich world of literature. I developed a ______ for reading Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, W. S. Maugham, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway…The ______ goes on and on. Reading is what I cannot live without.

What can one ______ from reading? It can be said that serious reading makes one a ______ person. When we read serious books, we must ______ our minds so as to find some room for new ideas, knowledge, and inspirations. Reading helps us overcome the ______ of knowledge and our prejudice（偏见）by offering different insights. We may learn to develop an overall view of the ______ , either inside or outside.

Serious reading is time-consuming and thus makes us more ______ . If we want to finish hundreds of pages of War and Peace, we must be prepared for a long journey without taking any ______ .

Well-designed classical novels make us more ______ . The writers put their hearts and minds into ______ plots, presenting descriptions, and expressing their values. To ______ the stories, we must make full use of our born logical（逻辑上的）competence, which might ______ reasonability.