Books bring us k 1 which enriches( 丰富 ) our lives and b 2 us happiness. All great men in the history of mankind ( 人类 ) 1 3 books. There is no genius ( 天才 ) without books. We know that books are treasure of knowledge, and knowledge is power. Without them, we can achieve( 取得 ) n 4 . A man is blind and does not even know w 5 he is doing if he is unable to read. Books bring us h 6 as well as knowledge. They enable us not only to see through the past, but also to see into the f 7 Macaulay, a famous historian of England, once wrote to a little girl, "If anyone would make me the greatest king that ever lived with palaces, fine dinners, wines, b 8 clothes and hundreds of servants, on condition that I should not read books, I would not be the king. I would rather be a p 9 man with a lot of books than a king w l0 any books in his splendid palace."