Question

It’s such a happy-looking library, painted yellow, decorated with palm-tree stickers and sheltered from the Florida sun by its own roof. About the size of a microwave oven, it’s pedestrian-friendly, too, waiting for book lovers next to a sidewalk in Palm Beach country Estates, along the northern boundary of Palm Beach Gardens.

         It’s a library built with love.

         A year ago, shortly after Janey Henriksen saw a Brian Williams report about the Little Free Library organization, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit that aims to promote literacy and build a sense of community in a neighborhood by making books freely available, she announced to her family of four, “That’s what we’re going to do for our spring break!”

         Son Austin, now a 10th-grader, didn’t see the point of building a library that resembles (像)a mailbox. But Janey insisted, and husband Peter unwillingly got to work. The 51-year-old owner of a ship supply company modified a small wooden house that he’d built years earlier for daughter Abbie’s toy horses, and made a door of glass.

         After adding the library’s final touches (裝點), the family hung a signboard on the front, instructing users to “take a book, return a book,” and making the Henriksen library, now one of several hundred like it nationwide and among more than 2,500 in the world, the only Little Free Library in Palm Beach County.

         They stocked（貯存） it with 20 or so books they’d already read, a mix of science fiction, reference titles, novels and kids’ favorites. “I told them, keep in mind that you might not see it again,” said Janey, a stay-at-home mom.

         Since then, the collection keeps replenishing (補充) itself, thanks to ongoing donations from borrowers. The library now gets an average of five visits a day.

         The project’s best payoff, says Peter, are the thank-you notes left behind. “We had no idea in the beginning that it would be so popular.”  (317 words)

1. The library was built __________.

A. by a ship supply company                                  B. on the basis of toy horses

C. like a mailbox                                                       D. with glass

2. What can we infer about the signboard?

A. It was made by a user of the library.

B. It marked a final touch to the library.

C. It aimed at making the library last long.

D. It indicated the library was a family property.

3.The passage tells us that the users __________.

A. donate (捐)books to the library

B. get paid to collect books for the library

C. receive thank-you notes for using the library

D. visit the library over 5 times on average daily

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.C

3.A

【解析】

試題分析：本文敘述了一家小型免費的圖書館。一個叫亨里克森·詹尼的人創辦的這家圖書館。這里的書是按照“拿走一本，換一本書”的方式循環下去，不斷得到補充的方式永遠存在下去。有些書已經在世界各地流傳。

1.細節理解題。根據第四段的 a library that resembles (像)a mailbox.可知這個圖書館建的像一個郵箱。故選C。

2.推理判斷題。根據第五段的instructing users to “take a book, return a book,”可知圖書館的牌子寫著，拿走一本，換一本書，這樣圖書館的書將永遠存在，可以持續下去。故選C。

3.推理判斷題。根據第七段的Since then, the collection keeps replenishing (補充) itself, thanks to ongoing donations from borrowers.可知由于借書者的捐贈，圖書館的藏書一直得到補充。從中可以推測出使用圖書館的書的人向圖書館捐書。故選A。

考點：類短文閱讀。