1 . 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.

2 . 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.

3 . 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.

4 . 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.

6 . When Williams, once a librarian, now 54-year old, became an elementary school teacher and tutor in Danville, Virginia, she wanted her students to fall in love with ________ just as she had. But early on, she ________ some kids had limited ________ to books. To Williams, the ________ was simple: Give kids books. In 2017, she ________ gave away 900 used children’s books over three days. Most people would be ________ with that.

“I wanted to do something that’s going to ________ my faith, my work ethic, my everything.” So she ________ a new goal for herself: Give away one million books. It sounds like an ________ number, but as Williams ________ on Facebook: “Don’t complain in the bleachers (露天看台) if you aren’t willing to work hard out on the field.”

So she got down to ________, first by persuading friends to donate books.or ________ buy books. Before long, as news of Williams’s project ________, strangers started leaving packs of ________ on her front porch.

As quickly as the books come in, Williams ________ them to local schools—free of charge. She also ________ a book club for prisoners in the local jail.

In the four years she’s been doing all this, the Book Lady, as Williams has come to be known, has ________ more than 78,000 books—only 922,000 more to reach her ________! And she’s not slowing down. It’s too important for kids with ________ options. “Reading can take you anywhere. You can travel in time and ________. If you can read, you can learn almost anything.”

7 . A Poet Is in His Words

The writings of William Shakespeare are today ________ read by young people in Britain. His young readership is ________ to those who choose to study literature at university

________, in British schools, it is required to study the poet, and when something is made compulsory, usually the result is ________, anger or both. Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen-for many of the young, reading them can seem like being forced to eat medicine, ________ when people are at an age when they are beginning to discover themselves and wanting to ________ their independence.

This was my experience of the classics at school. But when I reached my late teenage years I had a change of heart. Like every other young person since the dawn of time, the world ________ me. I wanted answers, so I ________ books to find them.

I went on to take a PhD in ________ and have taught the subject in universities in Britain and China. I have never regretted it. There is something in literature that people want,_________ they don't read books. You see this in the ________ of TV and movie adaptations of great works, the recent film version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice being a case in point. These popular adaptations may help increase people’s interest in the classic. Reading a ________ Romeo and Juliet may perhaps lead to a reading of Shakespeare's actual play. If that is the case, then I welcome the trend. ________, do not make the mistake of thinking that it is the same thing. Shakespeare is a poet and his greatness is in his ________. Reading someone else's rewriting of his work is like peeling a banana, throwing away the fruit and eating the skin. Take on the ________. It really is worth the effort.

10 . I will never forget one summer in my childhood. While walking in the attic（阁楼），I stepped on something and _______ down, with my hand landing on a floorboard that popped up and almost hit my head. When I _______ and looked inside the open space. I could not believe my eyes：There was gold in there! I _______ a handful of shining gold cubes, ran to the bottom stair and _______ , “Mama，I found gold up there under floor!”

Back up the stairs I dashed, but my brothers almost knocked me down as they ran right by me. When mama opened the door and _______ her head in, she _______ said, “Honey, that’s insulation（隔热材料）. Now put it all _______ .”

I felt really disappointed. I had thought I made a real _______ .

When I _______ inside to put “the gold” back, my hand touched what felt like a book. I pulled it out. It was old and small：Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, which I’d never heard of. And ________ I was bored, I decided to see what was inside this little book. To my ________ , it was a book of passages, phrases and proverbs, and I could tell that this was going to be ________ .

So I spent quite much time on it and found ________ in these pages. As I didn’t know how to express things clearly, I often ________ to talk about them. This book helped me ________ that I didn’t need to feel ashamed or ________ , because other people had similar experiences.

When I went to college, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations came with me. Over the years, I’ve kept my ________ copy, which to this day I often ________ . Although it was a coincidence（巧合）to find the book, it liberated（解放）me in a way. It helped me see more than my young mind and heart were able to ________ .

The book discovered under those floorboards was, ________ , gold.