2 . Jennifer’s mother, a librarian, read to her three children every day. She got them ________ to books. When Jennifer had the ________ to be an elementary school teacher in Danville, Virginia, she had the ________ that her students loved reading just as she had. But early on, she realized that some kids were left with limited ________ to books.

“It’s ________ to teachers of young children at the end of the first day of school which kids are ________ to or are not,” she said. To Jennifer, the ________ was simple: give kids books. In 2017, as part of an event called Engage Danville she ________ 900 used children’s books over three days. Most people would be ________ with that.

“Anybody could do that,” she said. “I wanted to do something to ________ my faith.” So she raised the goal ________ by setting a new goal for herself: give away one million books. It sounds like a number beyond her ________ but she got to work, first by ________ friends to donate books or money to buy books. Before long, as news of Jennifer’s project ________ strangers started leaving books by her front door. As the books come in, Jennifer gives them to local schools free of charge, and also ________ books to little free libraries around the city of 41, 000. She also ________a book club in the local prison.

In the four years she’s been doing all this. The Book Lady, as Jennifer has come to be ________ has given away more than 78, 000 books! And she has no ________ to slow down. It’s too important for kids with few ________

“Reading can take you ________” she said. “If you can read, you can learn almost anything.”

3 . In the 1950s, I was an only child of a single mother , living in a modest cottage in New Zealand. There was no TV and very little _______to spend on entertainment. _______we had our books and enjoyed _______better than reading aloud to each other. My mother read me The Faraway Tree Stories, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Treasure Island and poetry as well. _______I turned seven, I was able to take my _______at the reading role, and we spent many pleasant evenings laughing over _______ characters.

In 1964, I was 18 and moved to Auckland, but we still phoned each other and talked about books. Years later, Mum’s eyesight began to _______. She found it _______difficult to read the small print of her beloved books. She enjoyed looking at magazines but missed _______up with the latest books by her favourite __________.

Later, I became a Special Needs library assistant and my __________was to select books for __________impaired（损伤的）people. In time, I introduced my mother to large-print novels and audio-books, which gave her a great deal of __________as her eyesight grew more dim(模糊的).

In her 70s, Mum’s choice of reading seemed to __________to mainly murder mystery stories. I was __________to see that, so I bought her a more “worthy” audio-book. The next day, I asked, “How are you getting on with that latest book?” “Oh, not so well,” she replied__________. I didn’t try to “improve” my mother’s literary __________after that.

A few years ago Mum __________away. There are still so many thing I’d like to tell her. I’d like to __________her for her early guidance in the __________world of books. And I’m happy to say that I’m also into audio-books now.