My family lived about a mile from the Bertram Woods Library.Throughout my childhood, my mother drove me there several times a week.

Our visits were never _______enough for me.I loved wandering around the shelves,_______ the spines(书脊） of the books until something happened to _______ my eye.

I might have spent the rest of my life_______ libraries the way I viewed, say, the amusement park I went to as a kid.But then the _______ feeling came back into my life unexpectedly.

One day after we moved to Los Angeles in 2011, my son wanted to interview a_______ for his school assignment.So we went to the closest library.

As we drove over to meet the librarian, I experienced a(n) _______ of this similar journey in my past - another,parent and child on their way to the library.The _______didn't look anything like the Bertram Woods, but when we _______ inside, a shock of recognition ________me.Decades had passed, but I really felt as if I had ________to that time and place, walking into the library with my mother.________had changed.There was the same soft sound of pencil on paper, and the ________of people at the tables in the center of the room.The wooden checkout counters, the librarians’ desks, the bulletin board, were all the same.

It wasn’t that time ________in the library.It was as if it had been captured here, or collected.A library, for me, is a gathering pool of ________and of the people who come to find them.

【小题10】

A．stuck

B．disappointed

C．defeated

D．struck

I watched a wonderful video showing my friend Kieran Jordan dancing beautifully. I felt very_____________to see how she had responded to her illness.

Kieran has been living with Lyme disease (莱姆病) for two years. She first fell_______________in the summer of 2017, feeling tired, but the cause went undiagnosed and___________. After ten months, a medical provider recognized it as Lyme, but a lot of___________had been done._____________most health insurance plans do not cover Lyme disease, helpful   friends_________________a GoFundMe page,_________________more than $39,000 for Kieran.

She said,“GoFundMe saved my life. The disease is_______for two years. It’s been long and difficult, but not everyone has the kind of community _______________that I have.”

At the first signs   of the illness, she saw several medical   professionals. She said,“The__________ is that for ten months they________the diagnosis. They didn’t even test me for Lyme.”However, she is now making progress. “I am getting back some________________.”

Kieran is now seeing two physicians who specialize in Lyme. But she said________________that the health care system is so far behind in dealing with Lyme. “It’s not a__________disease, but Lyme disease is not included in our healthcare system and our insurance system.”In a Facebook post, Kieran told her friends,“I can see that I AM________. But I’m sometimes smiling through the tears!”

I joined a language exchange program online last year and had the chance to meet Lucy, a girl from England. We gradually became ________ with each other. At first, it was ________ to talk to someone I had never met before, but as time went by, our conversations continued ________ .

Being a teenager could be challenging, but having someone like Lucy, who ________ me even from thousands of miles away, made it easier. However, little did I know that she had been fighting with depression for many years. When she finally opened up and shared her ________ with me, I was both shocked and grateful that she ________ me enough to tell me that.

From that day on, I tried to ________ her regularly and encouraged her to seek professional help. Finally, Lucy started seeing a doctor, and then she made progress in ________ her condition. But later, with increased learning tasks, we both became ________, so our conversations became less frequent. One Sunday night, I surfed the Internet and found that Lucy had cleaned up all her social media posts. I was anxious and tried to ________ her, but there was no response. I completely ________ her. Weeks turned into months, and I gave up the ________ of hearing from her again. Surprisingly, Lucy sent me an email one day. In her message, she apologised and explained her sudden ________. Also, she thanked me for my help during her darkest moments. Her words touched my heart, and I realized the influence our ________ had made on both of us.

Even though we are ________ by distance and time zones, our friendship remains strong and continues to thrive.