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| "Two books per visit per week, "said the unsmiling librarian as she handed a library card.Neither the limits nor her attitude __1__ me, a 9yearold Jewish girl growing up in Berlin in the 1950s.I needed those visits.The books were filled with stories in which, however __2__ things seemed, everything __3__ well in the end, __4__ justice, bravery, and wisdom-a striking contrast to my everyday experiences. Thirty years later, I, a recent immigrant to the US with a daughter aged 13, stood in front of another librarian.This librarian was __5__. "What did she say?"I asked my daughter, who already knew a little English and often __6__ as my interpreter. "She said 'Can I help you?'" "Ask if they have any books in German, "I requested. "No, they don't."translated my daughter. While hunting for a job, I was told that the library needed people to __7__ books.The interview was short-the job didn't require much English, just a __8__ of the alphabet.I started the next day.Every day, I handled hundreds of books whose meaning was __9__ from me, mentally dividing them by size and color. One day, while shelving, I found English for Beginners and began studying it on my own.Step by step English letters started forming words I could __10__, words combined into phrases, and-oh, __11__!-I was reading.It was a slow process, supported by dictionaries and __12__ by tears, but it was progress. Afterwards I got promoted to the front desk-__13__ books in and out and answering simple questions. Every day I receive dozens of people.Sometimes I spot new immigrants.They come from all over the world, so they look different, but the hesitant expression on their faces and their __14__ manners are similar.My heart goes out to them, for they are people like me.I fully understand the __15__ roads on which they have stepped."They've come to the right place, "I think to myself.Then I smile and say-just the way a librarian said to me a long time ago-"Can I help you?" | ||||
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| 1-5: ACDAD 6-10: DABCA 11-15: BBADA |