Ronny looked like every other child in the first-grade classroom where I volunteered as the Reading Mom. But he was different from his classmates in other ways. He had a speech problem so he couldn’t ______ like other children.

I worked with every student in Ronny’s class to improve their reading skills. On the days when it was Ronny’s ______, I’d give him a smile, and he’d fly out of his chair. He opened the book as if he was opening a treasure ______ had ever seen.

I watched his ______ move slowly under each word when he tried to read out. Every time he managed to read a word with a strange ______, the biggest smile would appear ______ his face and his eyes would shine brightly.

Several weeks ______ I left, I held an awards ceremony (典礼). I gave Ronny a book called Little Golden Books. Tears ran down his ______ as he held the book close to him and went back to his seat. Ronny ______ let go of (放开) the book, not once. It never left his hands.

A few days later, I returned to the school. I ______ Ronny on a chair near the playground, the book open in his hands. His teacher said, “He hasn’t put that book down since you gave it to him. Do you know that’s his ______ book he has ever owned?”

I walked to Ronny and asked, “Will you read me your book, Ronny?” For the next few minutes, he read to me more ______ than I’d ever thought possible from him. When he finished reading, Ronny ______ his book and said satisfyingly “Good book!”

What a powerful ______ the writer of Little Golden Book had made to the life of a child with problems. At that moment, I knew I would become serious about my own writing and do ______ that writer had done, care enough to write a story that changes a child’s life, care enough to make a difference.

The books in David’s schoolbag felt like bricks as he ran down the street. What he wanted to do was to play basketball with Eric, ________ his mother told him he would have to return his sister’s books to the library first.

He had ________ set foot in a library and he wasn’t about to do so today. He would just ________ the books in the outside return box. But there was a ________, it was locked.

He went into the building, only a few minutes ________ closing time. He put the books into the return box. And after a brief (短暂的) ________ in the toilet, he would be on his way to the playground to ________ Eric.

David stepped out of the toilet and stopped in ________—the library lights were off. The place was ________. The doors had been shut. They ________ be opened from the inside, he was trapped (被困)—in a library!

He tried to ________ a telephone call, but was unable to get through. What’s more, the pay phones were on the outside of the building. ________ the sun began to set, he searched for a light and found it.

At last he could see. David wrote on a piece of paper: “________! I’m TRAPPED inside!” and stuck it to the glass door. Surely, someone passing by would see it.

He was surprised to discover that this place was not so unpleasant, after all. Rows and rows of shelves held books, videos and music. He saw a book about Michael Jordan and took it off the shelf. He settled into a chair and started to ________.

He knew he had to wait, but now, that didn’t seem to be such a ________ thing.