A young man Jermaine Scott set up in business as a barber in Madison, Tennessee, about a year ago. He gradually noted the kids were_______to tablets and electronic products when they came to the barbershop. It was extremely_______to cut their hair when they were focused on those, and kids would feel cross and lack passion for life if they play cell phones for a long time. That led to the_______of Scott’s “Barbershop Books Day”, when kids could come and get a_______ haircut. What was required? They are only required to_______a book while they got it.

He created “Barbershop Books Day” to help not only the kids, but also the anxious parents. Madison has many low-income and impoverished(贫穷的) families and many are entirely focused on just keeping their_______on. Many parents are occupied with their work and barely have time to accompany their children. For people in this community, $15 for a haircut per kid is not easy to _______, so in some way a reduction in the price can_______.

Scott began his _______by borrowing five books from City Library and putting them near his chair. Book________began flooding in when a local news station ________ what he was doing. Scott plans on taking it a step further by________his “Barbershop Books Day” to an “Ice Breaker Book Tour” where he________to get kids excited and motivated to learn while also giving them ________role models through motivational speakers so as to encourage them. Scott said, “If I step out of my comfort zone, challenge myself and instill(灌输) in them the idea that school is cool and educational, hopefully it will guide them in the right direction.” He also emphasized that it’s up to all the members of the society to develop students’ lifelong________for reading.

Megan’s Library of Love book drive began in 2006, in memory of a student who passed away. The _______ to send books to a school _______ was created by Megan’s classmates at Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle School as a tribute (悼念) to her.

The project formed out of the desire to _______ Megan, to help our community heal, and to make a _______ in the life of others. Students have many _______ of Megan, but the most vivid was her love for her family and the diligent _______ she gave to her classmates. They combined this with her _______ for learning and reading to create the Library of Love. This project honors Megan’s special qualities. In the _______ of one of her classmates, Megan was, “A good daughter, a good student, a good friend.” We are all blessed to have been a _______ of Megan’s life.

Every February, on Megan’s birthday, fifth graders at Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle School ________ donations of newly purchased books and send them to a school in need. The “Love books” are truly a ________ of love meant to ________ reading and learning. Students earn the money for postage by writing letters to local ________ . The fifth graders also have the ________ of labeling every book with a Library of Love sticker (标签), ________ the books into categories (类别), and ________ all the books for shipping.

In the two years since the Library of Love ________ began, students have collected over 5000 newly purchased books to send to schools in need. In 2006, 3419 books were sent to St. Bernard’s Parish to help ________ their school library after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the community. In 2007, 1613 books were sent to White Mountain School in Alaska, who ________ their high school in a fire. Students look forward to sending the gift of ________ to other schools.

If you put all of your books on the street outside your house, you might think they will disappear very quickly. But one man in Manila tried it and was _____ to find that the number of the books had increased. That man is called Hernando Guanlao whose _____ is reading books. Hernando set up a (n) _____ outside his home to share his _____ of reading with his local community.

In 2000, his parents died. Hernando was very _____. But soon he decided to turn his home into a library _____ his parents, because he had inherited (继承) their love of reading. He put less than 100 books outside his home for anyone who wanted to _____ them. Readers can take as many books as they want, for as long as they want. There are no _____ for borrowing and returning them. “I saw my old books upstairs and then decided to have the ______use them,” Hernando says. However, he found they not only ______ the books they had taken away, but also ______ his collection.

You’d think the books would disappear soon, because no one was ______ them. In Manila, books are ______ to get, because the price of a book is about 300 pesos and children’s books are even more ______. Besides, libraries are not ______ in Manila. Even the national library there does not ______ people to borrow books.

____ Hernando’s library was born, a lot of people have ______ Hernando by adding their own books to his collection. These days, there are ______ everywhere in and around Hernando’s house. His car has been forced out of the garage to make more ______ for those books.