Question 47-56
A bookless life is an incomplete life. Booksinfluence the depth and breadth of life. They meetthe natural______47_____for freedom, forexpression, for creativity and beauty of life. Learners, therefore, must have books, and the righttype of book, for the satisfaction of their need. Readers turn______48_____ to books because theircuriosity concerning all manners of things, their eagerness to share in the experiences ofothers and their need to ____49 _____ from their own limited environment lead them to findin books food for the mind and the spirit. Through their reading they find a deeper significanceto life as books acquaint them with life in the world as it was and it is now. They are presentedwith a __50 _____ of human experiences and come to ___51 ____ other ways of thought andliving. And while ____52 ____ their own relationships and responses to life , the readers oftenfind that the ___53__ in their stories are going through similar adjustments, which help toclarify and give significance to their own.
Books provide ___54 ____ material for readers’ imagination to grow. Imagination is avaluable quality and a motivating power, and stimulates achievement. While enriching theirimagination, books __55 ____their outlook, develop a fact-finding attitude and train them touse leisure ___56 ___. The social and educational significance of the readers’ books cannot beoverestimated in an academic library.
A. Abundant B. Characters C. Communicating D. Completely
E. Derive F. Desire G. Diversity H. Escape
I. Establishing J. Narrow K. Naturally L. Personnel
M. Properly N. Respect O. Widen
