1 . 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.

2 . As a reading specialist at an elementary school(小学), I work with many children who experience difficulty in reading. While there are obvious _______ during the year when students make great progress, there are also many _______ periods as well, when we, as teachers, want to find out why our students aren’t _______. Recently, I had an experience which allowed me a _______ chance to understand what goes on in the mind of a struggling reader.

Earlier this summer I _______ a bad concussion(脑震荡)while riding my bike. One _______result of my concussion was that I lost all short-term and some long-term _______ for a period of days. The days before and after the _______ seemed a blur(模糊)as the world went on around me.

People seemed to be _______ extremely quickly, and I struggled to __________conversations. Jokes were not __________ at all. Once I began trying to read the newspaper, but much to my disappointment, I realized that I couldn’t __________ any of what I read. I could know the words, but couldn’t understand the meaning. As I read, the words didn’t __________ pictures in my mind. I was reading each sentence slowly, then carefully setting it aside. The words had no __________, produce no images, and were simply words. By the time I finished the __________, I had built nothing in my mind. They were simply words __________ past my eyes, and I suddenly realized that this is how my student read!

I am just so __________ that this is a temporary condition. I have a much clearer __________of what struggling readers are __________. I remember that there are so many students out there, for whom reading is __________ so puzzling. We must reach them before they give up.

4 . The only thing I ever stole in my life was a book. I was six years old and it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen, bound in wonderful red Moroccan leather. No one would read it in a million years — it was about the abolition (废除) of slavery — but it was_________because I learned to read with it.

I was born in South Africa and_________in an orphanage (孤儿院). The first thing I ever remember is being hit. A temporary teacher called Miss Bornstein was the first person to take a(n)_________in me. I trusted her and I asked her to help me read that_________book. She must have thought there was_________in this little kid, for she agreed. From then on, she sent me a book a month and it_________my life. Through books, I could escape the orphanage, in my head_________, and go anywhere a story took me.

Reading_________me and I finished up winning a_________to an expensive boarding school.__________reading, I'd have become a railway repairman or a drunk. I used to invent stories and serialize (连载) them for the bullies, in exchange for not being__________.

The very first book I totally__________was Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, which I read when I was about nine years old. Like me, he was alone, poor and led an__________life. So here was this excellent story about someone in a hopeless situation, yet things__________well. It gave me__________.

Probably the most__________book I've read is The Pearl by John Steinbeck. It's very short—and I've read thousands of books since — but it was the first time I__________saw how beautiful words could be, and how astonishing a story could be.

It has a great__________about a young Mexican couple who discover an incredible pearl. Greed is a theme, but__________, it's one of those stories that tells you everything about life. If you want to know the truth, there is one place you can go—__________.

5 . “Bookshops are places to let your imagination fly high, with so many possible ________ to discover,” says Laura Iverson. She is one of the ________ at Darling Reads bookshop in West Yorkshire, England.

For Iverson, the best thing about working in a bookshop is ________ new books to readers. “ ________ beats that smile when they find the perfect book,” she says. ________ , when it comes to choosing the right one, she has some useful tips.

Don't feel you have to ________ a book because your friend likes it," Iverson says. "Stick to your own interests and choose what ________ you. "

She also ________ asking booksellers for suggestions because it could open your ________ to a new book or writer you would never have considered. "Bookshop staff are so ________ and absolutely love talking about books all day. "

Iverson says that one of her ________ books is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. She remembers ________ reading it when she was around 12 years old, and not being able to put it ________ . This is one of the things Iverson loves about reading. "No matter where you are, or what you're doing, you can be ________ into another world, once you a pick up a book that fascinates you, in a matter of ________ . "

6 . The brown bear was walking quietly behind the pink duck, ready to put his paws around her neck and throw her into a pot of boiling soup.

We turned the________. While I laughed quietly at the impracticality of a bear boiling water to________a duck, I lifted my head to find little Victoria sat huddled next to my am, honestly________to turn the page and find her favorite pink creature in a bear's________.

My________began to wander. I________the Thursday when Victoria ran into the reading room showing a golden certificate from her________. "Best reader," it showed. A smile came across my face as I looked into the eyes of the 7-year-old who just last year was________in first grade________her reading was quite poor.

It was the same________that had filled my face six months before, when Victoria joined the________program. After spending the first term answering a lot of questions, I________that Victoria's talkative nature and________for answers overshadow her desire to________and read. I________her energy and great curiosity and fueled it with my own enthusiasm. For every________she presented, I took her to scan the library shelves________a related book. I watched her eyes grow with excitement as I________helped her press through the stories, a journey in search of her ________.

Though I go to the library each week to be these kids'________, I come out, having been their student. They have introduced me to a side of me who I never realized existed.

9 . Smartphones and e-readers have become more common in recent years. Some people worry that the days of paper books will be _________. But surveys have shown that traditional books are still _________ among readers.

Some experts found that in England, sales of e-books are _________ while sales of paper books are rising. More _________, it’s young people who are buying the most physical books. Another survey of university students from the United States, Slovakia, Japan and Germany also showed that 92 percent of them _________ paper books.

The most popular _________ given was: “I like to hold the product.” It’s true that paper books bring a very different reading _________. Slovakian students said that they liked the smell of paper books. Other students said that they get _________ accomplishment (成就) when they finish reading a paper book and they enjoy seeing it on the _________.

Paper books can also be very __________ objects to lovers of reading. Many people like to sign their name on the inside cover. It’s __________ readers of paper books make friends with them.

This “friendship” people develop with __________ isn’t just sentimental (情感的). Research has shown that readers __________ more information reading from paper books than e-books. People also more easily __________ headaches or sore eyes while reading e-books.

It seems that paper books, which have been in production since the 15th century, still have an __________.

10 . When I was a kid I didn’t like to read. I didn’t get a lot of readers _______. When I was in 3rd grade I used to get in _______ that I didn’t read and I didn’t have enough points. When I was in 4th grade I wasn’t in the gate class for the first week and then after the first week friends moved me up and _______ me because they knew I was smart.

The first school term I didn’t _______ at all because I didn’t find a book that I was _______ in, but then during winter break I _______ a book called The Series of Unfortunate Events. After a few pages I was _______ to that book. I was reading and reading it because it was suspenseful (充满悬念的). After winter break I took the _______. I got 9 out of 10. My friends were so _______ with me because I was ________ getting points and within one term I read the whole series. I was on a ________ with one of my friends named Kelly to see ________ could finish the series faster. But it was a tie ________ we finished it on the same day within one term. Then I started to read the Percy Jackson series and I also ________ that series.

Till this day my 4th grade teacher always ________ how I didn’t like reading to I was reading all the time. With determination you can do anything as long as you like what you are doing.