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　　How long can I keep borrowed material?

　　Each time you borrow a book or a video, a date due card will be put in the book or video pocket, telling the day you should return the items to the library. Check this date carefully.

　　Some items－such as Hot Video and Hot Book can be kept for one week with no renewals.

　　You can keep most other items for three weeks, with two renewals allowed only if there are no holds or bookings on them.

　　How can I renew books?

　　You can renew items 3 ways:

1．Call the service line at 21226274444.

2．Renew the items yourself on the Internet. Items can be renewed twice if there are no holds on them.

3．Being the item(s) to any branch and take to the Circulation Desk. Most materials except Hot Book and Hot Video copies may be renewed twice for the same period as the original loan, unless another reader has placed a “hold” on the item. You cannot renew the item if it is overdue.

1．If you borrow a book from the library, you can always find in the book a card that tells you when you should return it to the library.

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2．You can keep any items from the library for three weeks.

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3．If another reader wants the item and has placed a “hold” on it, you have to return it.

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4．Readers can renew every item in the library twice if no one has placed a “hold” on it.

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5．It is easy to renew a book.

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material 材料　　date due card 借阅日期卡　　renewals 续借

original loan 初次借阅　　Circulation Desk 流通部　　overdue 预期的

　　There is a public library in every town in the United States. Most of them are tall buildings with so many large bright rooms. Anyone may borrow books. In some places you may borrow as many books as you need, but in others you are limited（限制）to a certain number of books including novels. You may keep the books you have borrowed for several weeks.

　　The latest novels are always in great demand（要求）, and nonfiction（散文文学）books, for example, books on history, driving, science and gardening are also very popular.

　　Most public libraries also have a reading room and a reference（参考）library. In the reading room there are tables and desks at which you can sit and read the daily newspapers and all the other important periodicals（期刊）: weeklies, monthlies and quarterlies. But you should take good care of your eyesight（视力）.

　　In the reference library there are encyclopaedias（百科全书）, dictionaries, atlases（地图册）and other useful books. But you can only use these books, you can't take them out.

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"Who did this?" Mrs. Green asked with a piece of broken glass in her hand. She had never been so   51  with us. The classroom was so quiet. All students looked at the window except me. I kept my head   52  . I knew it was me. I broke it when I practiced   53  baseball. But should I tell the truth? If I did, I would be in trouble, I didn't have enough   54 . How could I afford to buy such an expensive window? I really didn't want to put up my hand,   55  at last I said. “I did it. I am sorry.” It was not   56  for me to say those words.

Mrs. Green went to the book shelf and took down a book. Then she walked to me. Looking at  57 , I was a little afraid. To my surprise, she said, "I know you like  58   .Here is the book about them. It's yours now. I give it to you not because you broke the window, but because you are  59  ." I couldn't believe it. I wasn't punished(惩罚). However, I was given my favorite book about birds.

It happened 20 years ago, but I still   60  the book. The lesson my teacher taught me that day will be in my heart forever.