阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 When I was eight years old, Mother told me to put my coat on because we were going to go someplace 1. Usually, that meant we were going to see someone important or 2. I would at least get a new toy. I asked which one it would be that day, and she told me that I would be getting something better than a toy. She said I would get "access(通道)to a world of toys."
I had no idea why she was being so 3that day. 4, I had no real idea what she meant.
"Access to a world of toys?" Did that mean we were buying a toy store?
But we did not 5 at any toy store. Nor did we finally see anyone we knew.6, Mother pulled her car into a parking lot in front of a building that looked like 7 out of the past. It didn't have a modern look at all. And as we 8 the car, I still had no idea what this place was.
We took stone steps up to the entrance. Only then did I find out what this place was, because there was a sign that 9"Marcy Public Library". We pushed the door open, and Mother led me to the front desk. "I'd like to get my daughter a library card", she told the man 10the desk. He asked her to fill out a form and smiled at me. "What kind of books do you like?" he asked. I was too shy to 11 them. I simply smiled back and shrugged my shoulders. "Well, you'll find it out in time," he said.
I do not remember 12 I checked out that first day, but I know that in the years that followed I read everything I could find 13 at that old library. I read through all the Nancy Drew books before working on Judy Blume, then the 14: Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Shakespeare. Then I read books on history, books of poetry, and books about art. The library opened up a world that I 15 knew existed (存在).
So Mother was right. Getting a library card was like getting access to a world of toys.
