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"Two books per visit per week, "said the unsmiling librarian as she handed a library card.Neither the limits nor her attitude __1__ me, a 9yearold Jewish girl growing up in Berlin in the 1950s.I needed those visits.The books were filled with stories in which, however __2__ things seemed, everything __3__ well in the end, __4__ justice, bravery, and wisdom-a striking contrast to my everyday experiences. Thirty years later, I, a recent immigrant to the US with a daughter aged 13, stood in front of another librarian.This librarian was __5__.      "What did she say?"I asked my daughter, who already knew a little English and often __6__ as my interpreter.      "She said 'Can I help you?'"     "Ask if they have any books in German, "I requested.      "No, they don't."translated my daughter.      While hunting for a job, I was told that the library needed people to __7__ books.The interview was short-the job didn't require much English, just a __8__ of the alphabet.I started the next day.Every day, I handled hundreds of books whose meaning was __9__ from me, mentally dividing them by size and color. One day, while shelving, I found English for Beginners and began studying it on my own.Step by step English letters started forming words I could __10__, words combined into phrases, and-oh, __11__!-I was reading.It was a slow process, supported by dictionaries and __12__ by tears, but it was progress. Afterwards I got promoted to the front desk-__13__ books in and out and answering simple questions. Every day I receive dozens of people.Sometimes I spot new immigrants.They come from all over the world, so they look different, but the hesitant expression on their faces and their __14__ manners are similar.My heart goes out to them, for they are people like me.I fully understand the __15__ roads on which they have stepped."They've come to the right place, "I think to myself.Then I smile and say-just the way a librarian said to me a long time ago-"Can I help you?"

(     )1. A. surprised   (     )2. A. attractive (     )3. A. went out   (     )4. A. rewarding   (     )5. A. chatting   (     )6. A. introduced (     )7. A. shelve     (     )8. A. list       (     )9. A. vague       (     )10. A. recognize (     )11. A. challenge (     )12. A. inspired   (     )13. A. checking   (     )14. A. rough     (     )15. A. difficult B. comforted   B. dull         B. turned out   B. affecting   B. staring     B. instructed   B. register     B. knowledge   B. simple       B. realize     B. wonder       B. accompanied B. classifying B. elegant     B. smooth       C. puzzled     C. terrible     C. ended in     C. deserving   C. reading     C. guided       C. record       C. line         C. hidden       C. define       C. opportunity C. blocked     C. borrowing   C. polite       C. endless     D. shocked         D. strange         D. came up         D. denying         D. smiling         D. served         D. mark           D. competence     D. clear           D. interpret       D. news           D. excited         D. lending         D. shy             D. straight

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1-5: ACDAD  6-10: DABCA  11-15: BBADA