When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very__50__. Some stories are toldas ifthey were true. Real people who live in a __51__world do real things; in other words, the stories are about people just like us doing what we do. Other stories, such as the Harry Potter books, are not__52__. They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things that would beimpossiblefor us.
But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only__53__. How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter, wedo seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than__54__. Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way ofthinking. When we read or write something, we do much more than look at words on a page. We use our__55__, which is real, and our imagination, which is real in a different way, to make the words come to life in our minds.
Both realism and fantasy (幻想)usethe imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we readsomethingrealistic, we have to __56__ that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we__57__that we are real and they arenot. It sounds__58__, but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and__59__the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by__60__that what we read is like real life. __61__, we are writing the book, too.
Most of us probably don’t think about what is going on in our__62__ when we are reading. We pick up a book and loseourselvesin a good story, eager to find out what will __63__ next. Knowing how we feelwhenwe read can help us become better ____, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.
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