1 . I will never forget one summer in my childhood. While walking in the attic（阁楼），I stepped on something and _______ down, with my hand landing on a floorboard that popped up and almost hit my head. When I _______ and looked inside the open space. I could not believe my eyes：There was gold in there! I _______ a handful of shining gold cubes, ran to the bottom stair and _______ , “Mama，I found gold up there under floor!”

Back up the stairs I dashed, but my brothers almost knocked me down as they ran right by me. When mama opened the door and _______ her head in, she _______ said, “Honey, that’s insulation（隔热材料）. Now put it all _______ .”

I felt really disappointed. I had thought I made a real _______ .

When I _______ inside to put “the gold” back, my hand touched what felt like a book. I pulled it out. It was old and small：Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, which I’d never heard of. And ________ I was bored, I decided to see what was inside this little book. To my ________ , it was a book of passages, phrases and proverbs, and I could tell that this was going to be ________ .

So I spent quite much time on it and found ________ in these pages. As I didn’t know how to express things clearly, I often ________ to talk about them. This book helped me ________ that I didn’t need to feel ashamed or ________ , because other people had similar experiences.

When I went to college, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations came with me. Over the years, I’ve kept my ________ copy, which to this day I often ________ . Although it was a coincidence（巧合）to find the book, it liberated（解放）me in a way. It helped me see more than my young mind and heart were able to ________ .

The book discovered under those floorboards was, ________ , gold.

3 . A few years ago, I decided to read a novel or a short story collection from every country in the world. But when it_______to reading the world, the biggest _______ for me was that I didn’t know what to read and how to get the books. I had to turn to others for _______.In October, I _______ my blog and posted a short appeal online. I explained who I was, how_______ my reading had been, and I asked anyone who _______ to leave a message suggesting what I might read from other parts of the planet. I had no idea _______ anyone would be interested, but within a few days people started to get in _______.

Books often came from surprising _______. People gave me different ideas about what to do, I got a message from a woman called Rafidah in Malaysia. She said she loved my project and that she could go to her __________English—language bookshop and __________ a book I needed and post it to me.

I accepted __________, and a few weeks later, a package arrived, __________   not one, but two books —Rafidah’s from Malaysia, and a book from Singapore that she had also __________for me. I was__________that a stranger more than 6000 miles away would go to such lengths to help someone she would probably never meet. But Rafidah’s __________proved to be the pattern for that year.

I was deeply __________ by these kind-hearted strangers around the world and I know it’s the power of books that has __________us across the world. I hope more people will __________ me. If we all read more __________ ,we would all be richer for that.