In Hangzhou, borrowing books from the library is now as simple as shopping online: click, pay【小题1】 wait for delivery.

The city’s public library recently launched a program on WeChat, 【小题2】 popular Chinese messaging software, enabling its readers to check out books online and get them 【小题3】 (deliver) to their homes at low prices.

To enjoy the “Hangzhou enjoyable reading” service, one first needs to follow the library’s official WeChat account, 【小题4】 provides a list of books. After picking books, borrowers are required【小题5】 (present) the information such as their library membership cards, cell phone numbers and so on. The selected items will be delivered by express within three days after payments. Each reader can borrow up to 5 books once and 20 books at most 【小题6】 total. The books can be borrowed for up to 40 days. Readers now can borrow the library’s most popular books in this way. The online books will be renewed and enriched 【小题7】 (gradual) according to readers’ borrowing habits and【小题8】 (prefer). At the end of December, the library’s old and classic books 【小题9】(put) online too, making the total number of books available and bringing borrowers a lot of 【小题10】 (convenient).

Literacy (读写能力) exactly changes the human brain. The process of learning to read changes our brain, but so does what we read, how we read and on what we read. This is especially important nowadays, 【小题1】 many people are tied to screens at any given moment.

We are still in the early stages of understanding the impact of digital-based learning【小题2】 the development of children’s reading brains. Transforming new information into solid knowledge in the brain 【小题3】 (require) multiple connections to abstract reasoning skills. Each of【小题4】 needs the kind of time and attention often absent in digital reading.

Researchers have found declines in students’ comprehension when they read the same information on screens rather than print. Yet readers thought themselves better on screens because they were “faster”. More than 80% of college educators see a “shallowing” effect by screens on their students’ reading comprehension, according to new research. Similar results 【小题5】(find)in Israeli fifth and sixth graders recently.

The reasons are multiple, but they are not because deep reading is impossible on a screen. It is simply harder, because screens are linked with distraction (分散注意力的事), which in turn leads to less time 【小题6】 (give) to abstract thought.

The great challenge now is 【小题7】 (learn) how to use both print and digital media to their best advantage for all. As a society we must ensure that there are always books【小题8】 our children’s digital devices. It doesn’t matter【小题9】 the books are new or old, owned or borrowed from the library. 【小题10】 matters is that they are there, and that children are encouraged to read them.

Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story to 【小题1】(they) children. And they must have realized how difficult it is to write a good children’s book. The best children’s books are neither very difficult 【小题2】 very simple, and satisfy the child who hears the story and the adult who reads it. 【小题3】(fortunate), there are in fact few books like this, so the problem of finding the right bedtime story 【小题4】(be) not easy to solve. This may be why many of the books regarded as 【小题5】(work) of children’s literature were written for grow-ups.

Children, left for themselves, often show the 【小题6】(little) possible interest in literature. Leave a child in a bookshop or a library and he will more willingly choose the books 【小题7】 (write) in an unimaginative way, or have a look at the most children’s comics, full of the stories and jokes 【小题8】are the rejections of teachers and righting-thinking parents.

Perhaps we parents should stop 【小题9】 (try) to brainwash children into accepting our taste in literature. After all, children and adults are so different that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy 【小题10】 same books.