2 . 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 . Emily Bhatnagar is a shy girl who has always loved reading. She says, “The books sort of became my best friends when I didn’t have one.”

When Bhatnagar was 16, her father was diagnosed (诊断) with cancer. The news was________for the family. Books became an even bigger ________, and she started thinking about families in similar situations. When her father recovered, she ________a plan to help others. “The idea came from not just great thanks that the doctors were able to ________such a miracle (奇迹),”she said, “but also a little of ________ that there were kids who were ________ the same battle.”

Bhatnagar started a ________ in her hometown. The goal was to collect books and give them to kids being ________ for cancer in local hospitals. Since the start of the book drive, which she called For Love & Buttercup, Bhatnagar has ________ more than 10,000 books.

Bhatnagar had no idea how much ________ her work would get. She started by posting on social media, asking people in her area to donate. “I was expecting maybe two or three ________ from neighbors,” she said. But it ended up blowing up, ________ when news stations began reporting it. “The public response has been super great,” her father said.

Bhatnagar continues to run the book drive, with a little help from her parents. She hopes to expand the project to ________ more kids one day. The memory of the first time she visited those children who’d ________ her books sticks with her. “It was the best ________ of my life,” she said. “I realized I wanted to do this type of work forever.”

4 . In 2008, first grade teacher Alvin Irby stopped by a barbershop (理发店) after school for a haircut. Before long, one of his students ______. “He seems impatient and bored,” Irby recalls. “I look at this ______ thinking, ‘He should be practicing his reading.’ But I don’t see a ______ there.”

That moment stayed with Irby, and five years later he ______ Barbershop Books, a nonprofit. “Many kids ______ reading with something they do in or for school,” Irby says. “If the only place a kid practices reading is during a lesson, the progress will be ______ …Our program is about getting kids to say three words: ‘I’m a reader.’”.

Irby’s program may seem easy, but there’s a lot of ______ behind it. He puts a colorful, kid-sized bookshelf in each barbershop, making it ______ to children. The books displayed are all carefully chosen based on recommendations for kids aged 4 to 8, his target audience. For Irby, the most important ______ of a book is that it should be fun to read.

Putting books in barbershops is not the finish line. Irby says, “Many kids ______ see adults reading.” So, Irby ______ the barbers in his program--training them to engage kids about reading. “We ______ barbers to use the reading spaces,” he says. “Then they can talk to the kids about how they like reading.”

Irby believes that discussing books with a barber can be ______ for the kids. “Our goal is not to ______ barbers into tutors (导师),” Irby says. “This is a good ______ to provide kids with role models.”

6 . There are always some persons in your life who touch your soft heart with kindness.

As a little girl, my favorite thing was _________. And when I thought about _________ I wanted to be when I grew up, I figured I’d be a librarian, just because the two librarians changed my life.

At that time, the town library limited the number of books a person borrowed _________ two once a week. I _________ the books in just three days. So to read more, I was _________ about what books to choose. The librarian, Mrs. Tonne, was a warm person. Every time I went into the library, she greeted me, _________. When learning about my trouble, she often _________ some better books. Thanks to her help, I _________ a lot from these books.

Gradually, I developed an interest in writing, _________ poems. When I was in fourth grade, our school librarian, Mrs. Ketelsen, encouraged me to write more. When my poem was not accepted, she __________ me with comfortable words. Once she helped __________ some poems I’d written about dinosaurs to Highlights magazine. It was my first published writing!

Later, at the University of Iowa, __________ I majored in journalism, my dream was different. I realized that I was shy about interviewing people, which made me __________. When I recalled Mrs. Tonne and Mrs. Ketelsen, I made a decision without __________ to be devoted to writing. And now I am an editor at Reader’s Digest.

Whenever I think of the help from them, how __________ I am. It is their kindness that makes me what I am.

8 . The habit of reading is one of the greatest resources of mankind: we enjoy reading books that belong to us much more than if they are borrowed. Some people regard a borrowed book as a _________ in the house. It must be treated with care and considerate formality. _________ attitudes are forbidden. Because the book is borrowed, it tolerates no damage which means it must not _________ while under your roof. While reading the book, you are not allowed to make any mark or underline the important _________ when a flash of creative idea emerge. This is huge _________ to one’s imagination.

_________, your own books belong to you and you can treat them with so much closeness that you are not afraid to mark it up or to place it in a dirty place. Your own books are there for use, not for _________. You don’t need to display them in front of others. Private ownership also encourages _________ marking. A good reason for marking instructive passages in books is that this practice enables you to remember more easily the significant sayings, to _________ them quickly and then review them more frequently in the future.

Given the importance of owned books to a man, everyone should begin collecting a private library, making up his own __________ property. One should have his own bookshelves, which should not be having doors, glass windows, or keys. They should be free and __________ to the hand as well as the eye. Like the jewellery to a woman, the best moral __________ to a man is books. They are more varied in colour and appearance than any wall-paper. Their variety indicates __________ out of brains of different book writers. The knowledge that books are in plain view is also stimulating. Your body and mind are both __________. With books at hand, your mind is free to land any __________ or even strange possibility, which eventually gives birth to new discoveries or inventions.

9 . When I was young, I was a terrible student. I didn’t ________ talking with my grandmother on the phone, because she would ask me about school and about what I was reading.

Each Christmas, I would get a package from Grandmother. “Another ________. Just like every year!” I would think and then put it aside. I would ________all my latest toys on Christmas morning and for days and even weeks after.________, I would open Grandmother’s gift. I would read the book and sometimes ________ the text, but I didn’t find this interesting.

Although I was not interested in ________, I had great patience with younger children. Seeing how I ________her kid with homework, my neighbor said I should become a teacher when I grew up.

During my second term in college, I ________ in my Children’s Literature class. Our teacher________ a list of classic children’s books. It was then that I wanted to ________. I raced home and ran to the basement (地下室). There on the dusty shelf sat the most amazing collection of children’s books any teacher could ________ to have. My grandmother didn’t ________ me what my little girl mind wanted, but what she knew I ________ — a gift for the soul that would last a lifetime.

I ________ to water the seed my grandmother planted so long ago. I graduated from college, received my master’s degree and became a ________ , trying my best to plant those tiny seeds in all my students.