Passage 1
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.
One day in 2016,Robin Woods drove seven hours from his home in Maryland to visit a man named Mark Stevens in Massachusetts.The two had spoken on the phone dozens of times.But they had never met in person.Woods walked along a tree-lined street to Stevens's house.He seemed nervous and excited as he knocked on the door.A tall man with white hair and glasses opened it.
Within a few minutes,Woods,54,and Stevens,66,were sitting in the living room, talking about books.The meeting seemed an unlikely event:When Woods had first written to Stevens,in 2004,he was serving a 16-year prison sentence in Maryland,for breaking and entering.And yet it was a book that had brought them together.
While in prison,Woods had bought and begun reading Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia (百科全书).He spent hours flipping through the pages.One day,he was puzzled to read an entry stating that the 11th-century ruler Toghril Beg had entered Baghdad in 1955.He quickly realized that it should have been 1055.“I read it several times to make sure,"he said.Then he decided to write to its editor,Mark A.Stevens."Dear Mr.Stevens," Woods wrote in a letter."I am writing to you at this time to advise you of a misprint in your Collegiate Encyclopedia."He described the error and offered his thanks for Merriam-Webster's reference books.“I would be lost without them,"he wrote,unsure whether he'd ever get a response.What Woods didn't mention in his first letter to Stevens was that the encyclopedia represented the high point of his self-education.
Woods grew up in one of the poorest areas in America.Woods was first sent to prison at 23,for firing his grandfather's gun through an apartment window after a drug-related dispute. He was young and finished only a basic education."I had never read a book in my life,"he said.
During his stay in prison,Woods began his own course of study.He was always alone in a cell that had no television or radio.One day,a man with a cart of books wound his way through the lockup(监狱)tiers,shouting,"Library call!"Woods wasn't interested at first,but his boredom won out:He decided to borrow some books.That was the beginning of his self-education.
问题3:Why did Woods write to Stevens?