All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are

easily and cheaply【C1】______to all of us within the covers of books—but we must know how to avail our selves【C2】______this treasure and how to get【C3】______from it. The most【C4】______people all over the world, are【C5】______who have never discovered how【C6】______it is to read good books.

I am very interested in people, in meeting them and【C7】______about them. Some of the most【C8】______people I've met existed only in a writer's imagination, then【C9】______the pages of his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I've found in books new friends, new societies, new worlds.

If I am interested in people, others are interested not so much in who【C10】______in how. Who in the books includes【C11】______from sciencefiction superman two hundred centuries in the future all the way back to the first【C12】______in history; how【C13】______everything from the ingenious(巧妙的)explanations of Sherlock Folmes【C14】______the discoveries of science and ways of teaching manners to children.

Reading can make our minds feel pleased,【C15】______means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness【C16】______you a good reader. Reading is【C17】______, not because the writer is telling you something,【C18】______because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works together with the【C19】______or even goes beyond his. Your experience,【C20】______his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.

【C1】

A．readable

B．available

C．useful

D．new