Several years ago I studied in a university in the biggest city in our country. It’s beautiful but it’s hot in ____1_____. So I usually returned to my hometown when my __2______ began. It is not big, but it’s cool and quiet. I could ___3______ in the daytime and have a good sleep at night. One day I had some ___4_____ to solve. But I didn’t take the dictionaries home. My father told me Charlie, one of my ____5_____, had a good library. I went to his house at once. We didn’t see each other after I __6____ middle school. At first he didn’t recognize me. He ___7_____ me up and down. And then he called out, “Oh, dear! It’s you, Fred!” Of course we were ___8_____ to meet each other again and talked a lot about our schoolmates and ___9_____. Later on he showed me around his library. It wasn’t big but there were a lot of nice books in it. And the dictionaries I __10_____ were in them too. At last I said, “__11______ you lend some dictionaries to me, please?” “I’m sorry I don’t lend any books to __12____ ,” said the young man. “Are you afraid I’ll __13______ them?” “No, I’m not. I’m afraid you won’t __14_____ them to me. Look! All the books are not __15_____ , but borrowed!” 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15