Ifyouhappentofind“OntheRoad”atagasstationor“WhoMovedMyCheese?”inyourgrocerystoreitmightnotbeandaccident.Youcouldbetheunwittingbeneficiaryofa“bookcrosser”----apersonwhoonpurposeleavesbooks

Question

If you happen to find “On the Road” at a gas station or “Who Moved My Cheese?” in your grocery store it might not be and accident. You could be the unwitting beneficiary of a “bookcrosser”---- a person who on purpose leaves books in public places hoping they’ll be found by strangers.

The idea o leaving a book for someone else to find and enjoy is not new ---- some people have been leaving just-finished books in airports and on buses since the dawn of the hurry-up-and-wait. Creating a system for book-leavers to find out what happened to those books adds a new way to the practice. Bokcrossing.com the website that encourages books to be “released into the wild” has more than 18 000 members since its start last year and averages 112 new participants daily.

Its members have scattered(分发) more than 42 000 novels self-help books memoirs technical manuals and biographies in 45 countries leaving them in public restrooms movie theatres coffee studios or anywhere that they can imagine. The result: a worldwide living library.

Peri Doslu a California yoga instructor has dropped three--- one on top of a telephone booth one on a rock wall at remote Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada and another in one of the studios where she teaches.

“I’m always looking for paces to pass on books ” said Doslu. “To think my book’s going to go off and have this future and I might even get to know a little bit about it down the road.”

1.If you are an unwitting beneficiary of a bookcrosser that means_____.

A．you get a book on how to avoid accidents

B．you know where to get a book for free

C．you get a book somewhere for free without knowing in advance

D．you get a card with which you can borrow books at a gas station or somewhere else

2. Bookcrossers are the people who ____.

A．have lots of books

B．have lots of money

C．release books in public places on purpose

D．like reading books very much

3. A bookcrosser may not leave books in _____.

A．toilets

B．a studio

C．the fields

D．his bed

4. Which of the following about Doslu is true?

A．She dropped her first book on top of a telephone booth.

B．She had no idea who took her books away

C．She always left books to her students

D．She is a bookcrosser traveling around the world

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.C

3.D

4.B

1.推理题，由第一段最后一句a person who on purpose leaves books in public places hoping they’ll be found by strangers.可知选C

2.细节题，由第一段最后一句a person who on purpose leaves books in public places hoping they’ll be found by strangers.可知选C

3.细节题，由由第一段最后一句a person who on purpose leaves books in public…bed不是公众场合，可知选D

4.细节题，根据最后一段可知选B