1 . Today there is more to read than ever before. The websites try their best to ________ with each other by offering reading updates. The social news sites are always filled with the ________ news and stories one can read everywhere online. However, there is no lasting value amid the whole competition. As far as their value is ________, I assume it makes no much ________ whether you find one to read or ________ it. If you are someone who tends to ________ meaning in life, I am sure you've felt this way as well.

Whenever this happens, I choose to turn back to the ________, the old enduring meaningful books that have ________ the test of time. Most people believe, with our modern technology we have invented new life. But this is not the ________. When they think they are leading a life completely different from what their ancestors had decades ago, they are ________ still surrounded by minor details and their life remains unchanged.

Everything has its particular place. Old books teach you how to live and what it ________ to be human, with moral standards. This is why they still play an important part in our life. I'm glad that I am not ________ in this opinion. Many people agree that the wisdom of the greatest human minds ________ through centuries is the most valuable ________ of mankind.

To make classic books ________ to youngsters, schools should make it possible for their students to find the books recommended by their teachers on the book - shelves in the library.

3 . Last year, I attended a class and discussed the topic of "paper books or e-books" with my classmates. The discussion was lively, but was left_________because of several pros and cons（利弊）of both types of books and the personal_________of different students.

According to an article from LA Times, a study discovered that 92% of 300 college students in America and other three countries_________physical paper books. Many participants reported they had headaches for long screen time and are easily_________when sliding colorful pages.

I_________that the 92 percentage is true, not just because it is the result of a study. Paper books can_________another perspective（感受）to your reading experience through the_________smell of the book, the feel of the _________between your fingertips and the sense of progress being made throughout your reading.

However, pleasure comes at a_________. Physical books aren't cheap and__________much room. As a person who moves often and loves written words, it can be a big__________to move my mini library from one place to another, not to mention the money to buy those books.__________, besides taking up less space, e-books are more__________than traditional books. Yet those__________didn't keep my interest for long. Nothing__________the comforting feeling of curling up（蜷缩）with a hot cup of tea and a book.

4 . Many people do not understand a love of reading.Why bother with reading?

Reading books can be an escape.A book is another ____ you can pretend to live in for a little while.You can have a ____ into someone else’s life and someone else’s problems.For the time that you ____ the book in your hands,you can ____ from the world for a while.You can choose your other world,be it ____ or future,male or female,near or far.Any type of world you want to escape to exists in books. 

You can ____ just about anything you want from a book.Fiction or non-fiction, both have something to teach.Non-fiction,of course,can ____ you facts.There are books with general or specific ____,like biographies and historical accounts. There are books about science,dinosaurs,art,cooking and everything in between. Fiction books,even those not based on fact,can offer knowledge about other’s lifestyles and thoughts. 

Reading is a great way to ____.It takes your mind off life.It doesn’t require much ____ or preparation though,just picking up a book.____, it can be done anywhere for any amount of ____.If you just need a quick five-minute break,a book will ____.If you have an hour to spare,you can ____ for that too. 

Books are informative,relaxing and can help you escape.____ up a book and see if it turns you into a reader!

5 . One of Mark Twain's classic novels is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.It is_____in a small American town in the 19th century.The people in this town are very traditional and live a quiet life.

The story is about a boy called Tom Sawyer,who lives with his aunt Polly.He is often in_____with his aunt.Aunt Polly is very kind,but Tom thinks she is always trying to control him.

Tom is different from the other children in the town.He loves adventure.He does a lot of bad things,but he never really_____anyone.He tries very hard not to go to school,and often jumps_____his bedroom window at night to meet his friends.He is very clever.One day,Aunt Polly asks him to do some painting,and he_____to get all the boys in the town to do the work for him by inventing a new_____game.It is these little stories_____make readers want to keep reading the novel,but it is the adventures that are the most important part of the book.

Tom's best friend is Huck Finn,a boy who has no home.In one adventure,they spend the night outside,and they see a man kill another man_____.Later in the book,Tom,Huck and another boy decide to leave the town because they think that life there is too boring.They_____to an island in the middle of a river.They______fires,catch fish and sleep under the stars.They also make a______to travel up and down the river.______seeing the boys for days,the people in the town think that they have died.One day,when Tom comes back to his aunt's house to leave a letter______that he is not dead,he hears his aunt talking about his funeral(葬礼).______Tom has an idea.On the morning of their funeral,the boys run back into town and______their own funeral before telling everyone that they are still alive.

Many years ago, on a lazy summer day right before the beginning of the second grade, my mother changed my life forever.

I had just_______ a picture book about the tornado, so I_______ to play games with my sister outside because I feared it. I_______ myself for a nice hour or two of staying at home_______ and there seemed to be nothing for me to do.

My mother, no doubt, didn't think I had _______ to do, so she pulled a “big person” book off her personal_______ and gave it to me.“Here, you might like this.” I was_______ to be given a big book to read, _______ I was daunted (吓唬) by the fact that there were no pictures. I made up my_______ to give the book a try. I couldn't put it ________ the rest of the whole day. After that I became fond of ________ various books.

It stands out in my mind as the single most ________ moment in my entire childhood. It shaped the course of the rest of my ________.If my mother had told me to go to watch TV, or put me ________， I can imagine how________ life would be for me. I might not be a published author, and might not be as ________ as I am now.

There may have been a hundred other moments when my parents________， a hundred other moments that went wrong, but those________ don't matter because they got it right that one time. Now that I have my own child, I believe I'll get it ________ that one time, and that I don't regret the moments that ________ too much.

7 . You can't imagine how crazy I was about football when I was young. For years my life followed a(n) ______: I slipped out of the house, played football until dark and instantly I was infected with malaria. Football was so appealing that I was willing to ______ anything —injuries, punishment, and even sickness—to play it. Soon enough, my mother would rush me to the Sijuwade Hospital. There, the doctor said I needed to be _____ .

My dad often spent the night with me in the hospital while my mother ______ my sister at home. Then came the happiest ______ when my father told me wonderful stories.

My father was a(n) ______ storyteller. In the hospital, he would tell me a story or two, or, sometimes, if he was not too tired, many in response to my request. He ______ bicycle sounds and the howl of the wind so vividly that the pictures would never ______ from my mind. So happy were these moments that I sometimes wished to     ____ my hospital stay.

Because of my mom's strict supervision, it became ______ difficult to steal out. No longer sick, no more stories. ______, I broke into my father's room one evening.

My father laughed, "You are already eight and can read by yourself!"

He ______ me a book and said, "Go and read that. It'll tell you stories."

I remember that night clearly. I opened the book and read what turned out to be the most ______ story that I had ever read.

What I discovered that night ______ my life. I became thirsty for books and became a voracious（求知欲强的）______ . I read in the mornings, at nights and in between. Through reading, I felt as though I were on the magical journey to the endless.

8 . If you put all of your books on the street outside your house, you might think they will disappear very quickly. But one man in Manila tried it and was _____ to find that the number of the books had increased. That man is called Hernando Guanlao whose _____ is reading books. Hernando set up a (n) _____ outside his home to share his _____ of reading with his local community.

In 2000, his parents died. Hernando was very _____. But soon he decided to turn his home into a library _____ his parents, because he had inherited (继承) their love of reading. He put less than 100 books outside his home for anyone who wanted to _____ them. Readers can take as many books as they want, for as long as they want. There are no _____ for borrowing and returning them. “I saw my old books upstairs and then decided to have the ______use them,” Hernando says. However, he found they not only ______ the books they had taken away, but also ______ his collection.

You’d think the books would disappear soon, because no one was ______ them. In Manila, books are ______ to get, because the price of a book is about 300 pesos and children’s books are even more ______. Besides, libraries are not ______ in Manila. Even the national library there does not ______ people to borrow books.

____ Hernando’s library was born, a lot of people have ______ Hernando by adding their own books to his collection. These days, there are ______ everywhere in and around Hernando’s house. His car has been forced out of the garage to make more ______ for those books.

9 . I love a good murder mystery. It is so ___ to watch or read an exciting and interesting detective story and try to solve the ___ yourself. Agatha Christie is undoubtedly queen of the detective story considering she ___ over eighty books. Many people have fallen in love with her ___ — Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective and Miss Marple, an old lady who is also an amateur ___.

As I am a big ___ of Agatha Christie, I was excited to ___her house in Devon called Greenway. I travelled to her ___ by steam train. We went through a dark tunnel and there was lots of smoke. It was a ___ setting for a murder like in her famous novel Murder on the Orient Express. ____, all the passengers arrived safely!

After a pleasant walk through the woods, I ____ the splendid house. I did a tour and I loved seeing where she wrote her books. Many first editions were ____ in a revolving (旋转的) bookcase. However, my   ____ part of the estate (庄园) was the boathouse. There was a lovely view of the river ____ the boathouse also served a more special purpose — inspiration for a crime ____. In the Poirot novel, Dead Man’s Folly, a girl’s body is ____ in the boathouse. They even ____ the TV adaptation of the book at Greenway.

I really ____ my visit to Greenway. It was such a ____ place and I was interested in seeing where Agatha Christie was ____ to write so many exciting stories.

10 . I was almost 10 years old I he first time I moved to a new house with my family. One of the things that ___ me most was that I had to leave in the middle of a book. Our ___ grade teacher, Mrs. Rice, was reading aloud to our class from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie — a few ___ each day.

I was a child in the fifties and sixties, long before Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert ___ in the television series, so I couldn’t ___ the story on the black-and-white television in our new living room.

I must have told my teacher how ___ I was to leave in the middle of Laura’s story, which I’d ___ to love. Mrs. Rice, in all her ___, told me that she was sure the book would be waiting in the____ in my new town. She said I should go there ____ we got settled, check it out and finish reading it.

The move was not among the easiest I’ve ____ in my lifetime. The new fourth teacher was ____ not Mrs. Rice, and the new kids weren’t like the friends I’d left ____.

My mother knew the ____ I’d found in books through the years — beginning with the first one I remember her ____ to me, Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Childs Garden of Verses. ____, in her wisdom, she ____ my siblings and me into the car and took us to the Carnegie-style library in our new hometown.

Over the next five decades. I moved ____ a half-dozen times, but one thing was constant in each ____ — the library was one place where I always ____ at home and never worried what people thought of the “new kid”.