A. 从下列单词中选择适当的词填空，每个词只能用一次。

strange       while      afford             taken delivered      wish      mistaken         if simple        to          why            request

Twelve-year-old Mathew loves reading. Until recently, advertisements were the only reading materials available  51 the boy. So he approached his mailman to ask if he had any junk mail.

The  52  question naturally prompted the mailman Lynch to ask  53 and then put Mathew's response in a Facebook post: “Today  54 delivering mail, I saw him reading ads, and then he asked me if l had any extra mail he could read,”Lynch wrote. “He told me his  55 is to have books to read but he couldn't    56 to take the bus to the library.”Lynch then asked his friends  57 they could spare some books for Mathew.

Lynch thought the Facebook post might bring in 50 to 60 books. But his  58 was widely spread online. People from around the world have sent books. Hundreds of books have been  59 to the boy's door so far, and Mathew said he was surprised by the generosity. “I thought they were  60 , but they were for me.” He said he can't wait to share the books with other kids, and has promised to read every one.

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