On an island in Indonesia, one librarian has started a mobile library, lending books to children in exchange for trash. This is a new way to ________ the environment and get the kids to read more.

The________of the “Trash Library” is Raden Roro Hendarti. Every weekday, Raden________her tricycle with books and rides to the village of Muntang. She________books for plastic cups, bags, and other waste from the children living there. ________ she shows up, little children, many accompanied by their mothers, ________ her “Trash Library” and cry for the books. They are all carrying trash bags and Raden’s three-wheeler quickly fills up with them as the books________out. She’s________the kids are going to spend more time reading instead of________on online games as a result. Raden collects about 100 kilograms of________each week, which is then sorted out by her colleagues and sent for________or sold. Raden weighs the collected trash daily to________how much has accumulated (积累) over the months. She has a stock of 6,000 books to lend and wants to take the mobile________to neighboring areas as well. The idea behind the small mobile library is well________by the children. Kevin is an 11-year-old reader in the village. “When there is too much trash, our environment will become dirty and it’s not________. That’s why I look for trash to borrow books,” he says.

For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines; a never-ending flood of words. In getting a job advancing, the ability to read and comprehend ____ can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are ____ readers. Most of us develop poor reading habits at an early age, and never ____ them. The main shortage lies in the actual stuff of language itself – words. Taken individually, words have little____ until they are combined together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. Unfortunately, ____, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He read one word at a time with difficulty, often regressing to ____ words or passages. Regression, namely, the tendency to look back over what you have just read, is a common ____ habit in reading. Another bad habit which ____ the speed of reading is vocalization –sounding each word either ____ or mentally as one reads.

To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an accelerator, which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set a slightly ____ rate than the reader finds comfortable, in order to “____” him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, making word-by-word reading, regression and sub-vocalization, practically ____. At first comprehension is ____ speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but your comprehension will improve. Many people have found their reading skill ____ improved after some training. Take Charles Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute before the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that now he can go through a lot more reading material in a(n) ____ period of time.

When young, I read only comic books. Novels seemed to be too_______! For me, a comic book was a rollercoaster ride_______ a novel was five hours in rush hour traffic.

My mother would complain, which totally_______ my comic book reading experience. One summer, she even _______me: “Read at least one novel this summer, or we’re not going to go on our camping trip.” What could I do? I had been looking forward to that_______ for months!

My mother took me down to the local _______, where the librarian _________The lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I unwillingly_______ the book.

When we got home, I cracked the book open and started reading. I _______ I’d read the first few pages then skip to the end because I knew my mother would ________ me about it. Imagine my ________ when my mother called me to dinner and I was halfway through the book! ________ a comic book was a rollercoaster ride, the novel was all the rides at Disney world rolled into one!

I ________ reading the entire Chronicles of Narnia series that summer, which I consider the________ of my great friendship with books. Now I read one book a week, and sometimes my wife________ that I read too much.