Reading has always been my home, my ____, my great invincible companion... I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth. 2.Of those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores ____ some people feel about jewelers. 3.How many times had I gone up the steps to the ____ with the Sydney Cartoon as he went to that far, far better rest at the end of A Tale of Two Cities. 4.It never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I had lived in, had visited and would visit again, ____ all the people in them, every blessed one... were more real than the real people I knew. 5.Of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort––God, sex, food, family, friends––reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most ____, at least publicly. 6.There is something in the American character that is even secretly ____ to the act of aimless reading, a certain hale and heartiness that is suspicious of reading as anything more than a tool for __7__. Reading for __8__ was replaced by reading for __9__, and kind of dogged self -improvement. 10.There was good reading, and there was bad reading. There was the worthy, and the ____. A.advancement B.just as C.hostile D.guillotine E.purpose F.pleasure G.sustenance H.undersung I.trivial J.the way