1 . 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__________.

2 . 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.