第 11 至 15 題為題組         A book town is a rural town in which second-hand and antiquarian bookshops are concentrated. Theconcept was __11__ by Richard Booth, who opened the first second-hand bookshop in Hay-on-Wye,UK in 1961. Following him, many local people opened their own bookshops, and the small town soonbecame a model of sustainable rural development and tourism. Since the 1970s, book towns like Hayon-Wye __12__ up all over the world.
        Although all book towns have a great number of bookshops, that’s where the similarities __13__ .Each of these towns shows unique features of its own. Some have many small private shops, while othershave organizations steered by volunteers. Some even run regular activities to attract visitors. For example,an annual book festival is held in Hay-on-Wye. Clunes, in Australia, holds a monthly book talk that hostsauthors to discuss their latest __14__ .
        As digital reading is changing our traditional way of reading, book towns like Hay-on-Wye areparticularly important to __15__ . The feel of a book, the smell, the weight, and the knowledge that aparticular book might be more than a hundred years old—all these highlight the importance of preservingthe physical book as a complement to technology.
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