单选题Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and
mark A, B, C or D. All the wisdom of the ages, all
the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply
{{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}to all of us {{U}} {{U}}
2 {{/U}} {{/U}}the covers of books—but we must know how to avail
ourselves {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}this treasure and how to
get {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}from it. The most {{U}}
{{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}people all over the world, are {{U}}
{{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}who have never discovered how {{U}}
{{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}it is to read good books. I am
very interested in people, in meeting them and {{U}} {{U}} 8
{{/U}} {{/U}}about them. Some of the most {{U}} {{U}} 9
{{/U}} {{/U}}people I've met existed only in a writer's imagination, then
{{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}the pages of his book, and then,
again, in my imagination. I've found in books new friends, new societies, new
words. If I am interested in Pe0Ple,others are interested not
so much in who {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}in how. Who in the
books includes everybody from science-fiction superman two hundred centuries in
the future all the way back to the first {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}}
{{/U}}in history; how {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}everything from
the ingenious explanations of Sherlock Holmes {{U}} {{U}} 14
{{/U}} {{/U}}the discoveries of science and ways of teaching manners to
children. Reading can make our minds feel pleased, {{U}}
{{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}means that it is a little like a sport: your
eagerness and knowledge and quickness {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}}
{{/U}}you a good reader. Reading is {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}},
not because the writer is telling you something, {{U}} {{U}} 18
{{/U}} {{/U}}because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works
together with the {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}or even goes
beyond his. Your experience, {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}his,
brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you
understand his.