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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(对行人友善的) 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 organization that aims to promote literacy(读书识字) 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（类似） a mailbox. But Janey insisted and husband Peter unwillingly got to work. The 51-year-old owner of a ship supply company modified（修饰） 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 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.”

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

A. It owns a yellow roof.

B. It protects book lovers from the sun.

C. It stands near a sidewalk.

D. It uses palm-tree stickers as decorations.

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

A. a report on a Wisconsin-based organization

B. a spring break with her family

C. a book sent by one of her neighbors

D. a visit to Brian Williams

3.The library was built __________.

A. by a ship supply companyB. on the basis of toy horses

C. with glass D. like a mailbox

4.The passage tells us that the borrowers__________.

A. get paid to collect books for the library

B. receive thank-you notes for using the library

C. donate books to the library

D. visit the library over 5 times on average daily

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.A

3.D

4.B

分 析：
文章大意：文章主要讲述了Janey Henriksen一家建立微型图书馆的故事。

1.C 细节题。根据第一段的it’s pedestrian-friendly(对行人友善的) too waiting for book lovers next to a sidewalk in Palm Beach country Estates判断C正确。

2.细节题。根据文章第三段第一句A year ago shortly after Janey Henriksen saw a Brian Williams report about…可知Janey Henriksen是因为看到一篇关于the Little Free Library organization准备建社区图书馆的报道后受到启发才建这样特殊的图书馆的。故A正确。

3.细节题。根据文章第四段第一句Son Austin now a 10th-grader didn’t see the point of building a library that resembles（类似） a mailbox.可知D项正确。

4.B 细节题。根据文章的最后一句话进行判断。

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