Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格內填入適當的詞，使其內容通順，每空格限填一詞，首字母已給)
Libraries give kids a quiet and safe place to read and to learn. For more than 100 years, libraries have played an important role in Americans’ e 小題1: . But how are these book-filled buildings changing with the times? You may be surprised to find out.
Benjamin Franklin famously founded America’s first lending library in 1731. But the public library system got its b 小題2: development in the American history in the late 1800’s. Businessman Andrew Carnegie donated(捐贈) millions of dollars to help build free public libraries across the country. Between 1886 and 1919, Carnegie’s donations helped build 1,679 new libraries.
Carnegie believed in the chances that libraries could o 小題3: Americans, young and old. He knew that the more libraries there were, the more people would have access（接觸的機會） to books, lectures, news and more.
Chances are that there is a public library in or near your c 小題4: . You can easily find one close to your home. After all, the United States has 9,225 public libraries. Today, libraries keep growing. Seven out of ten libraries have free Internet. This opens many doors for people who cannot go online at home, i 小題5: the opportunity to apply for jobs online.
Libraries are also teaching kids about the fun of reading. The new program Read! Build! Play! adds reading into playtime. As kids listen to a book being read aloud, they use Legos (樂高積木) to build images from the story h 小題6: . Today’s libraries are always looking for creative programs to bring people into the library.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “The doors of wisdom are never s 小題7: .” As long as the doors of public libraries are open, what he said is most certainly correct!
