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 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 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 pay?off, says Peter, are the thank?you notes left behind. “We had no idea in the beginning that it would be so popular.”

1.In what way is the library “pedestrian?friendly”？

A．It owns a yellow roof.

B．It stands near a sidewalk.

C．It protects book lovers from the sun.

D．It uses palm?tree stickers as decorations.

2.Janey got the idea to build a library from ________.

A．a visit to Brian Williams

B．a spring break with her family

C．a book sent by one of her neighbors

D．a report on a Wisconsin?based organization

3.The library was built ________.

A．by a ship supply company

B．on the basis of toy horses

C．like a mailbox

D．with glass

4.What can we infer from 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.

5.The passage tells us that the users ________.

A．donate 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

1.B

2.D

3.C

4.C

5.A

【解析】文章主要介紹了Janey Henriksen一家建立微型圖書館的故事。

1.答案：B　細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段第二句可知這家圖書館是為了方便愛讀書的行人借書而建立的，因此B項正確。

2.2】答案：D　細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段第一句可知Janey Henriksen看到一篇關(guān)于the Little Free Library organization的報告后受到啟發(fā)，因而產(chǎn)生了建立這樣的圖書館的想法。

3.3】答案：C　細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第四段第一句的內(nèi)容可知C項正確。

4.4】答案：C　推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第五段的內(nèi)容可知，這個標(biāo)牌要求借書者拿走一本書就要歸還一本書，其目的是使圖書館能夠持續(xù)更長的時間。

5.5】答案：A　細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段第一句可知借書者經(jīng)常捐書給圖書館，因此A項正確。文章沒有提到為圖書館收集書會有報酬，因此B項錯誤；文章最后一段提到Peter說經(jīng)常收到借書者的感謝信，而不是借書者收到感謝信，因此C項錯誤；文章倒數(shù)第二段第二句提到圖書館現(xiàn)在平均每天接待5個人，因此D項錯誤。

疑難詞匯解讀

1．resemble vt.類似，像

She resembles her brother in looks.她和她弟弟長得很像。

2．donation n．捐贈物，捐款

a generous donation慷慨的捐助

長難句子分析

It's such a happy?looking library，painted yellow，decorated with palm?tree stickers and sheltered from the Florida sun by its own roof.

分析：此句的主干是It's such a happy?looking library，painted yellow，decorated with palm?tree stickers和sheltered from the Florida sun by its own roof是三個并列的過去分詞短語作定語修飾library。

句意：這是一家看起來非常溫馨的圖書館，刷了黃色的漆，用了棕櫚樹貼紙裝飾，并且它的屋頂遮住了來自佛羅里達州的陽光。