1 . Hannah, an adventurous girl, lived on a small village in a land far away. All of the villagers were used to their _________ tasks and very few had the will to try something new. Unlike them, Hannah loved to _________ and would spend hours in the woods looking for new things.

One afternoon, she _________ an abandoned cottage. With curiosity she slowly opened the door and was left _________. In front of her was a room full of books glittering in the dust! She gasped as she _________ that she had found a hidden treasure. She _________ two and decided to read them at her home.

From that day on, Hannah _________ read the books, which took her to a world of talking animals, mystical creatures, and daring knights. She read about characters who faced _________ with their determination and characters who bravely _________ for good. She learned the power of love and friendship, and that the true strength lies within one’s own __________!

With the good in heart, Hannah started to __________ the gold from the tales with the people of her village. Soon, the __________ of Hannah’s storytelling spread. People traveled from different places to listen to her stories.__________, Hannah started writing stories of her own too!

Hannah’s passion and __________ blew life into the tales and her words breathed new life into countless souls. She became a signal of __________, a reminder for everyone that even in the dustiest comers, there can be a hidden treasure.

3 . Literature was something I was interested in. At school I was that kid who stuck his hand up to _________ aloud from the Shakespeare play. Over the holidays I would visit the _________ and read literatures. While my generation was playing after school, I was in a ghetto(贫民区) learning to _________.

I lived then in Lagos. The ghetto landlords had unlimited _________. They could throw others with all their possessions out into the street. Annoyed, I wrote about _________. Those pieces were not published. Then it occurred to me to write a story about them. This began my long _________ in the rigorous craft(严谨构思) of the short story.

However, after finishing my A-levels, I had a job working for a paint company. _________ in Lagos was so terrible that it took three hours to get to work. I would wake up at 4 a.m. and write for an hour before _________ work. When I _________ I would sleep and then write till one o’clock.

The first __________ took a year. I got myself __________ from work and bought a typewriter with the severance pay(解雇金). I began __________ for many __________, who all turned it down.

Then, one morning, a letter came from Longmans’ African Writers’ series. I remember giving a cry of __________. That moment changed everything. I was 19. With the publication of Flowers and Shadows, the life I was meant to live __________.

4 . A few weeks ago, I surfed the Internet and came across a book called The Debt to pleasure. At first sight, I_________, immediately, to own it. Its structure was novel and it had won wide _________among readers.

But before I could_________ the Buy Now button, a tiny inner voice _________the library, the library, which was simply three blocks from my apartment. I searched the catalog （目录）of the library and sure enough, " _________" now. However, by the time the book was borrowed, I couldn't say with _________that I would love it. This worn, yellow-papered object was just so _________. However promising our first _________was, my initial desire _________sank. When the book was __________, I walked to the library and __________it into the Returns box. Once reshelved, it would __________for others. I sighed and walked off. It had never __________me from the very beginning.

One thing I should mention：I did end up loving The Debt to Pleasure, I loved it so much that I finally ordered a copy of my own. The library book does __________me the cost of a paperback, but it just delivers a __________satisfaction, one that can't promise permanent ownership. Live your life fully, for our lives are only lent to us and can't be owned forever.

5 . “Hey, I’m Courtney. What’s your favorite book? Elephant and Piggy? Yeah, I got it.”

If you thought you’d walked into a(n)_______with a greeting like that, you wouldn’t be too _______. However, the truth is that you’ve_______ the workplace of Courtney Holmes, or the Storybook Barber.

Two years ago, Dubuque emailed on its citizens to offer _______ families free resources in the community. Holmes agreed to _______. He was holding down two jobs at the time — one as an insurance agent, the other as a _______ Saturday was his busiest day, but he chose to donate his _______ and give free haircuts to underprivileged kids so they’d look _______   on that first day of classes. But then he had a lightbulb moment: “The kids should _______ their free haircut by having to __________ a book to me,” Holmes said. The idea was so popular that he__________ it the first Tuesday of every month for the next two years.

Five-to-ten-year-old boys would grab a favorite book, __________ into the barber chair, and read aloud while Holmes was working. If they __________ over a word, Holmes was there to help. After the haircut, they’d __________ the book, from the language to the characters and to the __________— just like in school, more fun,__________.

Holmes and his family have recently__________ from Dubuque to a Chicago suburb. When they get settled, he plans to continue his __________ as the Story-book Barber. “With guns and __________       in the world today,” he says, “I want to create a safe __________ for the kids to come to and read in.”