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(diǎn)), 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(bǔ)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

 

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(shū)館的故事。

1.答案：B　細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段第二句可知這家圖書(shū)館是為了方便愛(ài)讀書(shū)的行人借書(shū)而建立的，因此B項(xiàng)正確。

2.2】答案：D　細(xì)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(bào)告后受到啟發(fā)，因而產(chǎn)生了建立這樣的圖書(shū)館的想法。

3.3】答案：C　細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第四段第一句的內(nèi)容可知C項(xiàng)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(gè)標(biāo)牌要求借書(shū)者拿走一本書(shū)就要?dú)w還一本書(shū)，其目的是使圖書(shū)館能夠持續(xù)更長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間。

5.5】答案：A　細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段第一句可知借書(shū)者經(jīng)常捐書(shū)給圖書(shū)館，因此A項(xiàng)正確。文章沒(méi)有提到為圖書(shū)館收集書(shū)會(huì)有報(bào)酬，因此B項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤；文章最后一段提到Peter說(shuō)經(jīng)常收到借書(shū)者的感謝信，而不是借書(shū)者收到感謝信，因此C項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤；文章倒數(shù)第二段第二句提到圖書(shū)館現(xiàn)在平均每天接待5個(gè)人，因此D項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤。

疑難詞匯解讀

1．resemble vt.類(lèi)似，像

She resembles her brother in looks.她和她弟弟長(zhǎng)得很像。

2．donation n．捐贈(zèng)物，捐款

a generous donation慷慨的捐助

長(zhǎng)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(gè)并列的過(guò)去分詞短語(yǔ)作定語(yǔ)修飾library。

句意：這是一家看起來(lái)非常溫馨的圖書(shū)館，刷了黃色的漆，用了棕櫚樹(shù)貼紙裝飾，并且它的屋頂遮住了來(lái)自佛羅里達(dá)州的陽(yáng)光。

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