介绍:
A bookless life is an incomplete life. Books influence the depth and width of life. 1. They meet the natural desire for freedom, for creativity and beauty of life. Readers turn naturally to books because their curiosity concerning all manners of things and their eagerness to share in the experiences of 2. others lead them to find in books food for the mind and the spirit. Through their reading, they find a 3. deeper significance to life, as books make them familiar with life in the world 4. as it was and it is now. They 5. are presented with different human experiences and come to escape other ways of thought and living. And while 6. establishing their own relationships and responses to life, the readers often find that the characters in their stories are going through similar adjustments, 7. which help to clarify and give significance to their own.
Books provide abundant material 8. for readers' imagination to grow. Imagination is a 9. valuable quality and a motivating power. While enriching their imagination, books widen their outlook, develop 10. a fact-finding attitude, and train them to use leisure properly. The social and educational significance of the readers' books cannot be overestimated in a school library.
