Come and meet my family. This is a{#blank#}1{#/blank#}of my family. I'm Frank. And I{#blank#}2{#/blank#}twelve. I'm a student of No. 11 Middle School.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}is my father.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}name is Eric Brown. He{#blank#}5{#/blank#}a teacher in my school. He teaches English. And this is my{#blank#}6{#/blank#}She is a teacher, too. Who is the{#blank#}7{#/blank#}near(在旁边）my father? Oh，she is my sister. My grandparents are not{#blank#}8{#/blank#}the photo{#blank#}9{#/blank#}are not in China. I have a happy family and I love my{#blank#}10{#/blank#}very much.

    I was 18 years old when I lost my father in a car accident in July, 2000.At the end of that summer, I had planned to take an {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(importance)exam to the engineering school. I wanted {#blank#}2{#/blank#} study engineering so much and I was very good {#blank#}3{#/blank#}Maths. My best friend Rob was also going to take the same exam in September. We'd like to imagine that {#blank#}4{#/blank#} we both became engineers, and that we could do many projects together. We knew that the whole world was {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(wait) for us. But that was before my father died. Rob called me from time to time to encourage me to study. I had always said "yes", but deep down in my heart. I knew I stopped {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(believe)in myself. On the day of the exam, I didn't attend the exam.

    But later, I regretted(后悔).I thought no one would care about me after my father died. But at least there was still one person：{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(I).I shouldn't have let the chance pass by. I should have tried. I could not change my father's {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(die), but I could change my attitude. Losing a chance without trying is {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(bad)than losing a loved one.

    Since then, I've grasped each chance to everything that I have, and I {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(get)my master degree in engineering in 2008.

    Next time you hold a book in your hands, stop and think. Like most other things in the modern world, it is the result of thousands of years of human invention.

    First came the invention of writing, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (probable) about 5,500 years ago. With writing, people did not have to remember everything in their heads. They could communicate with people that they never {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (see) and share their knowledge with future generations.

    Later, the Greeks were well-known for their literature (文学) and science, but their "books" looked very different f {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the books of today. They were called scrolls (卷轴).They were difficult to use and took a lot of space in a library. About 2,000 years ago, books with lots of pages {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (invent).

    For more than a thousand years, the pages of books were made from animal skin. That changed in t{#blank#}5{#/blank#} thirteenth century, when Europeans learned about a very {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (use) Chinese invention: paper.

    But the biggest change for books in Europe came in 1439, when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. Before that, books in Europe were copied by hand, so they were very expensive. Many more people could afford the books {#blank#}7{#/blank#} were produced on a printing press.

    These days it is difficult {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (imagine) a world without books. But human invention does not stop. Every year, more {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (story) are bought as e-books and read on a screen.

    Will anyone turn the pages of a traditional book in the future, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} will books, like scrolls soon disappear?