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 (装点), 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（贮存） 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 (补充) 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】

试题分析：本文叙述了一家小型免费的图书馆。一个叫亨里克森·詹尼的人创办的这家图书馆。这里的书是按照“拿走一本，换一本书”的方式循环下去，不断得到补充的方式永远存在下去。有些书已经在世界各地流传。

1.细节理解题。根据第四段的 a library that resembles (像)a mailbox.可知这个图书馆建的像一个邮箱。故选C。

2.推理判断题。根据第五段的instructing users to “take a book, return a book,”可知图书馆的牌子写着，拿走一本，换一本书，这样图书馆的书将永远存在，可以持续下去。故选C。

3.推理判断题。根据第七段的Since then, the collection keeps replenishing (补充) itself, thanks to ongoing donations from borrowers.可知由于借书者的捐赠，图书馆的藏书一直得到补充。从中可以推测出使用图书馆的书的人向图书馆捐书。故选A。

考点：类短文阅读。