請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題: Shakespeare and Company is an English-language bookshop in Paris. It was opened in 1951 and has been a meetingplace for Anglophone writers and readers 41 . Founded by American George Whitman, the bookstore wasoriginally called Le Mistral. In 1964, Whitman renamed his store 42 a bookseller he admired, Sylvia Beach, who’dfounded the original Shakespeare and Company in 1919. Through his bookstore, Whitman endeavored to carry on thespirit of Beach’s shop.
From the first day the store opened, writers, artists, and intellectuals were invited to sleep in the bookstore in variouscots that are dotted around the place. These people, 43 as "tumbleweeds," have to promise to read a book a day,help at the shop for a few hours a day, and produce a one-page autobiography. American actor Ethan Hawke is amonga(n) 44 30,000 people who have tumbleweeded at the store--he stayed there for six nights when he arrived in Parisat age 16.
Whitman passed away in 2011, two days before his 98th birthday. Now his daughter, Sylvia Whitman, is followingin her father’s footsteps and is dedicated to keeping the spirit of the bookstore 45 . Under her direction, it shouldremain a center for Parisian literary life for many years to come.
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(A) secret
(B) alive
(C) tense
(D) urgent