1 . “A good book is easy to find.” That is the _______ on a sign at Hernando Guanlao’s home in the Makati area of Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

Guanlao has _______ his home into a free public library. Visitors can borrow the books inside for free. Guanlao says he hopes his library will inspire people to read, _______ the young. The 72-year-old said that his library _______ books that all students can enjoy — from young children in kindergarten to _______ students in grade 12. He calls his library Reading Club 2000, which includes many different kinds of books.

He _______ his library more than 20 years ago when he set 50 books beside the walkway in front of his home. Guanlao’s _______ have grown greatly over the years — thanks to a continuous supply of books from donors.

Speaking of donors, he said, “They just _______ boxes of books outside my house.” He has also begun _______ books himself by sending reading materials to public schools in faraway communities.

Guanlao's ________ make a difference at a time when reading ability among students in the Philippines remains ________ . Some students in the Philippines are also facing learning delays（延迟）in math and science. He hopes to help more students ________ these problems.

Guanlao is ________ to stick to his goals. “My mission（使命） is to ________ used and donated books to others at no cost,” he said, “and to promote ________ through literature.”

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 __________ and 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 competence, which might __________ reasonability.