When I was about ten,my family moved to a neighborhood near a public library. Every evening, I would________to the library soon after school. On weekends, I would be there five minutes earlier than the opening hour of the library. Instead of________the librarian to do the cleaning, I would________ the kids’ section’s seats, turn on the lights and start my reading.

I was________ of the librarian at first, as I used to hear him being hard on people who had late returns. Every day, fifteen minutes before the________closing time, he would start to ask people to________Because I did not have a library card, I wasn’t ________ to take my half-read books with me. After a few days, the librarian must have silently________my long face, because he started making________ about closure only in other sections. He would leave the________ on just enough for me to read while he tidied up the rest of the place. ________, this gave me another ten minutes to read. Five minutes before closing, I would put the books back and join him in ________the doors. Very soon, in my head, we formed a team that opens and closes the doors of the library.

I lived there for about five years and the librarian and I had become ________. He would simply point at the new books and smile at me. If I missed going to the library, the librarian would be________and ask why I had missed my routine.

I love books,________ the silent librarian.

I was given the book Running on Faith written by Jason Lester as a birthday gift last month. After I started ________, I really couldn’t keep my eyes off it. It is always ________ to read a story of someone who has gone through difficulties to reach his ________.

Jason Lester is a ________ extreme athlete. When he was twelve years old, a fast car ran a red light and ________ him. Then he was sent into the hospital with twenty broken bones and a(n) ________ injured arm. Jason had always ________ to become a famous baseball player, but at that time that dream was ________.

However, Jason loved sports and he still wanted to be a good ________. He began running and ________ duathlons (铁人两项比赛) in high school. Years later in 2004, he decided to start ________ for the Ironman (铁人), and has competed in many extreme ________ since then. In 2008, Jason became the first disabled athlete to ________ the Ultraman (320 miles of biking, swimming and running), and it led him to an ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete with a Disability in 2009.

If you are in a bad ________ and don’t know what to do now, Running on Faith is a good book for you. If you love running and want to reach some race goals, this book is good for you, too. Anyway, this book is ________ reading for everyone who loves reading and wants to turn dreams into reality.

8- year- old Dillon Helbig has _______ much attention over social media for his lovely book The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Christmas that he made all by himself. But the second-grader never _______ the book to go viral. It was a pleasant surprise.

Dillon’s journey to get it published is a pretty _______ story. He _______ his handwritten, 81-page graphic book onto the shelves of the local library without being noticed while _______ the library with his grandmother. After his mom discovered that Dillon left his book at the library, she wasn’t _______ by what he’d done. She knew Dillon had wanted to published a book since he was five. _______ that Dillon’s book would be lost, they returned only to find the book was _______ from the spot where Dillon put it. They contacted the library and were told that the manager Alex Hartman and a few coworkers had already discovered and read Dillon’s book. They not only _______ it, but decided it met the selection criteria (选择标准). So they stuck a bar code (条形码) on it and added it to the library’s ________. Dillon’s wish of earning a place in the library’s card catalog came true. Before long, the book proved so ________.

Alex Hartman said, a reader ________ out the only copy of The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Christmas days ago and now there’s a 55-person wait-list. Library readers are allowed to ________ books for up to four weeks.

For his performances, the library gave Dillon a(n) ________ for Best Young Novelist. Excited with success Dillon isn’t resting on his laurels (荣誉). He’s already working on his next ________. “It’s about a jacket-eating closet,” he said.