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.

2 . For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines; a never-ending flood of words. In getting a job advancing, the ability to read and comprehend ____ can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are ____ readers. Most of us develop poor reading habits at an early age, and never ____ them. The main shortage lies in the actual stuff of language itself – words. Taken individually, words have little____ until they are combined together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. Unfortunately, ____, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He read one word at a time with difficulty, often regressing to ____ words or passages. Regression, namely, the tendency to look back over what you have just read, is a common ____ habit in reading. Another bad habit which ____ the speed of reading is vocalization –sounding each word either ____ or mentally as one reads.

To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an accelerator, which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set a slightly ____ rate than the reader finds comfortable, in order to “____” him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, making word-by-word reading, regression and sub-vocalization, practically ____. At first comprehension is ____ speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but your comprehension will improve. Many people have found their reading skill ____ improved after some training. Take Charles Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute before the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that now he can go through a lot more reading material in a(n) ____ period of time.

7 . One day when I was 12, my mother ordered me to walk to the public library and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to ________ my strange problem ________ to read.

In the library, I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf ________. The beagle (比格猎犬) on the book’s cover ________ my eye. The first and only animal companion I ever had as a child was a beagle. ________, one morning, he was gone, given ________ to someone who had this space and money to care for him. I never ________ my beagle.

The beagle on the cover looked ________ to my dog. My eyes ran across the ________, “ Amor, the Bengle with a Plan.” ________, I I had read the title. Without opening the book, I ________ it from the library for the summer.

I started to read about Amos very slowly and with ________. It was about a dog who, like mine, had been ________ from his family and found his way back home. That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of ________ until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together.

My mother’s call returned me to the ________ world. I suddenly ________ something I had read a book and loved it. Everyone knew I couldn’t read, but I had read it. Books were ________, and I was going to read them.

I ________ told my mother about my miraculous (奇迹般的) experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable ________ in my classroom performance during the next year. Years later, she was ________that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction.

8 . Reading good books is one of the greatest pleasures in life. It ________our happiness when we are cheerful. and lessens our sorrow when we are sad. A good book may absorb our attention so   ________ that for the time being we forget our surroundings.

Whatever may be our main purpose in reading, good books should never fail to give us________. With a good book in our hands we will never be________ .Whether the characters in the book are taken from real life or are purely________· they may become our companions and make us laugh. The people we meet in books may ________ us either because they are similar to our close friends or because they present unfamiliar types whom we are glad to welcome as new acquaintances. Our human friends sometimes ________ us, but the friends we make in books always respect us. By turning the pages we can ________ them without any fear of hurting their feelings. When our human friends ________ us, good books are always there to give us sympathy and encouragement.

One of the most valuable gifts from books is ________ . Few of us can travel far from home, but all of us can lead varied lives through the pages of book. When we wish to ________from the dull realities of everyday life, a book will help us when nothing else can. To travel by book we don’t have to ________and save a lot of money. Through books we may get the thrill of adventure without________ . We can climb high mountains or cross the hot sands of the desert.________ , through books the whole world is ours for the asking. The ________ of our literary experiences are almost unlimited.

9 . World Book Day falls _________ April 23th every year. It was _________ by the UNESCO (联合国教科文组织) in 1955 to encourage people, especially teenagers, to discover the pleasure of reading. Many countries _________ World Book Day. On that day in the UK, millions of students can buy books of special _________, much lower than usual in any bookstore. It has been done since 1998. _________ do people like reading? Firstly, reading helps us become more knowledgeable and more intelligent (勤奋的). _________, reading helps us to follow the latest developments of science and technology. Besides, reading gives us _________ about other cultures and places of the world. When we read, we may find many things that we don’t know well. We would have to think about them or do more reading to _________ out the answers. The more we read, the _________ we know. What’s more, reading is also one of the most important ways to learn a foreign language like English

“Reading __________ a full man.” Books, magazines, newspapers can help us to know more about the outside world and perfect us. So it is necessary for us to form the habit of reading every day.

10 . One day when I was 12, my mother ordered me to walk to the public library and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to _________ my strange problem _________     to read.

In the library, I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf _________ . The beagle (比格猎犬) on the book’s cover _________ my eye. The first and only animal companion I ever had as a child was a beagle. _________, one morning, he was gone, given   _________ to someone who had the space and money to care for him. I never_________ my beagle.

The beagle on the cover looked _________ to my dog. My eyes ran across the _________ , “Amos, the Beagle with a Plan.” __________ , I had read the title. Without opening the book, I __________it from the library for the summer.

I started to read about Amos very slowly and with __________. It was about a dog who, like mine, had been __________ from his family and found his way back home. That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of __________   until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together.

My mother’s call returned me to the __________   world. I suddenly__________ something: I had read a book and loved it. Everyone knew I couldn’t read, but I had read it! Books were __________ , and I was going to read them.

I __________ told my mother about my miraculous (奇迹般的) experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable __________ in my classroom performance during the next year. Years later, she was   __________   that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction.