Shakespeare and Company is an English - language bookshop in the heart of Paris. It 【小题1】 (be) a meeting place for writers and readers for almost seventy years.

In 1951, a bookshop 【小题2】 (name) Le Mistral was opened by George Whitman. It was renamed Shakespeare and Company in 1964 【小题3】 honor of a bookseller he admired, Sylvia Beach, who founded the 【小题4】 (origin) Shakespeare and Company in 1919. Beach's bookstore had been a gathering place for great writers of the time, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Pound.

George's bookstore quickly became a center for literary life. From the first day, writers, artists, and intellectuals were invited 【小题5】 (sleep) for free among the shelves. Since then, an estimated 30, 000 people have stayed in the bookshop. Over the years, the shop 【小题6】 (gradual) grew. George said, “I 【小题7】 (create) this bookstore like a man would write a novel, building each room like 【小题8】 chapter, and I like people to open the door the way they open a book.”

Today George's novel, this bookshop, is still being written by George's child Sylvia, by a team of 【小题9】 (bookseller), and by the thousands of people 【小题10】 continue to read, write, and sleep at Shakespeare and Company.

In the past few years, more than half of bookstores in China have closed down, 【小题1】 is the result of the 【小题2】 (compete) from online bookstores. But the success of Sisyphe Bookstore, one of the 【小题3】 (big) privately-owned bookstore chains in China, may serve as 【小题4】 amazing example.

【小题5】 (found) in 1993, Sisyphe started to transform and upgrade its business in 2009 to seek its profitability. Now, it not only devotes itself to 【小题6】 (sell) books, but also combines the functions of bookstore, café and sale of creative cultural products. Sisyphe opens its bookstores in shopping malls in order to take advantage of the large number of consumers of shopping malls to sell its books, and it also 【小题7】 (able) people to enjoy spending time reading and drinking coffee. 【小题8】 return, bookstores have improved the cultural atmosphere of shopping malls, so 【小题9】 is mutually (共同的) beneficial to have such cooperation.

So far, the government 【小题10】 (offer) tax reduction for bookstores to encourage the development of physical bookstores. Perhaps it is early to say the boom of physical bookstores has come, but definitely, we see the light.

Science fiction is regarded by many people as a mirror through which our future can be 【小题1】(free) imagined and explored. The Three-Body Problem, written by Chinese writer Liu Cixin, is one of those 【小题2】(astonish) predictions about the future. The work was first published in a Chinese sci-fi magazine in 2006. When the first volume 【小题3】(translate) into English by Chinese-American author Ken Liu, it attracted attention around the world, becoming the first Asian winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The book represents many 【小题4】(theme) such as space exploration, alien contact, AI, and the future of humans.

The Three-Body Problem begins with the stories of two unrelated people, Ye Wenjie and Wang Miao. Ye is recruited(征募) to join 【小题5】 secret project in a remote area of China, which has been set up to contact alien life forms. In the other story, 【小题6】(set) 20 years later, Wang Miao gets caught up in a popular online game called “Three Body”, in 【小题7】 people live on an unknown planet with three suns. But Wang discovers it is more than a game — it uncovers a great danger 【小题8】(threaten) human existence. How are these two people’s stories connected? And how will their 【小题9】(behave) change Earth’s future and the civilisations of other planets? Answers 【小题10】 all these questions are waiting to be discovered when you go on reading.