
Xu Dawei grew up in a village in Shandong. He learned much knowledge through reading. This self-education and growth ____1____ him to his success. He opened a library in 2010 after several years of working.
The library is different from ____2____ ones. It doesn’t set the time when the books should be ____3____. A reader can take one book every two weeks. The reader is ____4____ to pass it on to someone else when he finishes reading. Xu often shares his book lists online. If readers cannot find those books in their local libraries, he will mail the books to them for free as ____5____ as possible.
Sitting in a small hutong in Dongcheng district, Beijing, the library is just seven square meters in size. It ____6____ thousands of books about different subjects.
The library was moved because of money problems. The ____7____ of the library has changed three times. However, the library is still ____8____ now.
“It might be the ____9____ library in the world,” said Xu. “But in another sense, it’s also the biggest because the books keep ____10____. I don’t even know where some of them have ended up.”
Xu recalled the ____11____ of one reader who borrowed an English book on Chinese garden history. Later, the reader ____12____ passed it to a neighbor, who took it to Germany. “Just imagine it: that book started out from a small hutong, and ____13____ all the way to Europe. The ____14____ cannot be seen, yet powerful,” Xu said.
It’s the most ____15____ thing Xu has done for the society. He will pass the library on and it can keep reading from disappearing to some degree.