[音频]All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have (1)______mankind for centuries,are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the (2)_____of books，but we must know how to avail ourselves of this (3)______and how to get the most from it.The most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how (4)______it is to read good books.I am most interested in people, in them and finding out about them.Some of the most (5)______people I’ve met existed only in a writer’s imagination,then on 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 people, others are interested not so much in who as in how.Who in the books includes everybody from science (6)______superman two hundred centuriesin the future all the way back to the first figures in history.How covers everything from the ingenious explanations of Sherlock Holmesto the discoveries of science and ways of teaching (7)_____to children.Reading is pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport:your (8)______and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun,not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work.Your own imagination works along with the author’s or even goes beyond his.Your experience, (9)______with his, brings you to the same or different (10)_________,and your ideas develop as you understand his.Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house,but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate,together they all add up to something, they are (11)______with each other and with other cities.The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places;the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in (12)_____,but with different solutions according to different writings at different times.Books influence each other; they(13)_______the past, the present and the future and have their own generations,like families. Wherever you start reading you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas, and in the long (14)______,you not only find out about the world and the people in it; you find out about yourself, too.Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you (15)______on books somebody tells you you “ought” to read,you probably won’t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try anothertill you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time -and if you become, as a result of reading, better, (16)____, kinder, or more gentle, you won’t have suffered during the process.