Question

【題目】With a good shopping position and the right amount of money, any educated person ought to be able to make a living out of a bookshop. It is not a difficult trade to learn and the large chain-stores can never force the small bookseller out of existence as they have done to the corner shop. But the hours of work are very long---I was only doing a part-time job, but my boss put in a seventy---hour week, besides regular journeys out of shopping hours to buy books.

The real reason why I should not like to be back in the book trade for life, however, is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller cannot always tell the truth about his books, and that gives him a dislike for them. There was a time when I really did love books---loved the sight and smell and feel of them---if they were fifty or more years old, that is. Nothing pleased me quite so much as to buy a bargain lot of them on sale for several pounds. There is a peculiar flavour（獨特的味道）about the unexpected books you pick up in that kind of collection: little-known eighteenth-century poets, or out-of-date geography books. For occasional reading---in your bath, for example, or late at night when you are too tired to go to bed---there is nothing as good as a very old picture story-book.

But as soon as I went to work in the bookshop I stopped buying books. Seen in a mass, five or ten thousand at a time, books were dull and even a little tiresome. Nowadays I do buy one occasionally, but only if it is a book that I want to read and can’t be borrowed easily, and I never buy rubbish.

【1】List two conditions that are necessary to run a bookshop. (No more than 9 words)

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【2】Why didn’t the author want to go back to the book trade? (No more than 10 words)

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【3】What did the author feel most pleased about? (No more than 8 words)

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【4】How did the author feel when he saw large quantities of books in the bookshop? (No more than 6 words)

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【5】What kind of books does the author buy occasionally now? (No more than 10 words)

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Answer 1

【答案】

【1】a good shopping position; the right amount of money.

【2】Because he lost his love of books while in it.

【3】Buying a lot of old books on sale.

【4】He felt bored/dull or even annoyed/impatient.

【5】The books/The ones/Those that attract/interest him and are hard to borrow.

Or: The interesting books that are hard to borrow.

The books/Those that are interesting and hard to borrow.

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述作者在一家書店打工。只要有好的商鋪位置和適量的金錢應該就有能力以賣書為生。但是工作時間非常長，這讓我有些疲倦。而真正的原因是我再也不想回去從事以賣書為生的人生了，當我在書店，看到到處都堆得亂七八糟，滿滿的書，我失去了對書本的熱愛，以前我會到處選書，買書。而一旦回到書店打工，我就再也不想買書了。除非是我特別想讀，而且又是借不到的書，我才會偶然購買，我再也不會買回一堆垃圾了。

【1】理解題。題意：列舉經營書店的兩個基本條件。從文章第一段第一句可知With a good shopping position and the right amount of money, any educated person ought to be able to make a living out of a bookshop.“有個好的商鋪位置和適量的金錢，任何受過教育的人都能開書店謀生”。故填a good shopping position; the right amount of money.

【2】理解題。題意：作者為什么不想回去從事賣書的職業(yè)了。從文章第二段第一句可知The real reason why I should not like to be back in the book trade for life, however, is that while I was in it I lost my love of books.“但是，我再不想回去賣書的真正原因是，當我身處書店，我就失去了對書的熱愛”。故填Because he lost his love of books while in it.

【3】理解題。題意：使作者感到最幸福的事是什么？從文章第二段第四句可知Nothing pleased me quite so much as to buy a bargain lot of them on sale for several pounds.“讓我非常高興的是，我只需花費幾英鎊就能買回很多特別便宜的書”。故填Buying a lot of old books on sale.

【4】理解題。題意：當作者看到書店里大量的書籍時，是什么樣的感受？從文章第三段第二句可知Seen in a mass, five or ten thousand at a time, books were dull and even a little tiresome.“當大批，且同時看到五千或一萬冊在一起后，書本就令人心煩乃至微感惡心”。故填He felt bored/dull or even annoyed/impatient.

【5】理解題。題意：現在作者會偶然購買什么樣的書籍？從文章末句可知Nowadays I do buy one occasionally, but only if it is a book that I want to read and can’t be borrowed easily, and I never buy rubbish.“現在，我也會偶爾買一兩本書，但僅僅是我特別想讀的，且輕易借不到的書，我才會買，我再也不會買回一堆垃圾了”。故填The books/The ones/Those that attract/interest him and are hard to borrow.Or: The interesting books that are hard to borrow.Or: The books/Those that are interesting and hard to borrow.