Usually, when we talk about reading, we think of using our eyes 【小题1】 (see) letters written in ink on paper. 【小题2】 , this is not always true. For example, blind people cannot see, but they can still read books.

The man 【小题3】(introduce) blind people to reading was Louis Braille. Braille lost his eyesight at the age of three as a result of 【小题4】 injury. When he was ten, he went to a school for the blind in Paris.

In 1821, a soldier visited the school and showed the students a system for passing 【小题5】 (message) at night during times of battle. His system used paper with small, raised dots 【小题6】 could be felt with the fingers. Each letter of the alphabet was represented by a different pattern which 【小题7】(make) up of twelve dots. While the students found the soldier’s idea interesting, the system was too difficult to be 【小题8】 practical use. But young Louis Braille took the idea and worked on it. At the age of fifteen, he created a system --“Braille.”

The blind can 【小题9】 (easy) recognize Braille with the fingers. Today, 【小题10】 is the most common system for them to read and write.

Reading a paper book may be a forgotten luxury for many people thanks to today’s busy lifestyles 【小题1】 listening to a book while shopping or jogging is a growing trend. Now, audio books can be easily downloaded from the Internet at the same, if not 【小题2】 (low), prices as the print 【小题3】 (edit).   

Mary Beth Roche, publisher of Macmillan Audio, says many of their readers use audio books as a “multitasking tool”, a way to consume books when their eyes are busy. For others, whose work may involve spending lots of time 【小题4】 (look) at the screen, audio books are a way to relax. “It’s sort of nice to sit back and have a story 【小题5】 (tell) to you, ” said Roche. In the United States, audio books 【小题6】 (be) a serious business for a long time 【小题7】 (simple) because Americans on average spend so much time in their cars. “It is a good way for consumers to make the time in traffic quality time,” said Roche. Even way back when it was the cassette and then the CD, the number one place 【小题8】 people listened was in the car. When audio books became available 【小题9】 the digital form, people started using 【小题10】 during other activities—when they are shopping, jogging, performing household tasks and so on.

Reading fiction is highly 【小题1】 (benefit), and there are scientific studies to back this up. A recent study 【小题2】 (publish) in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin found that people who grow up reading fiction have a richer and more complex worldview than those 【小题3】 don’t.

Reading fiction develops your 【小题4】 (imagine), which allows you to be more creative and helps you with your problem-solving skills. Moreover, the ability to imagine things influences everything a person does, 【小题5】 (think) about their profession and creates, regardless of their profession. All you need to do to work on this skill is to expose yourself 【小题6】 a great novel.

Reading fiction improves your mental health. Reading improves people’s mood 【小题7】 (great) and brings it to a pleasurable state. Moreover, research suggests that regular readers are relatively mentally healthy, 【小题8】 (show) lower stress levels and higher self-esteem than non-readers.

Reading fiction helps process your emotions. According to InDaily, when a person indirectly experiences 【小题9】 event associated with an emotion, for example, if they read about what happens to a character and how they feel about it, the same region of the brain is triggered (触发，激发) as if they’d experienced the event 【小题10】 (them).