Question

    With a good shopping position and the right amount (数量) 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 flavor(独特的味道)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the unexpected books you pick up in that kind of collection: little-known eighteenth-century poets, or out-of-date geography books.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 (偶尔的) 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 borrow, and I never buy rubbish.

1. According to the passage, _________ is one of the necessary conditions to run a bookshop.

A. an educated shop-owner

B. a good position at a street corner

C. a regular journey out of the shop

D. the force of large chain-stores

2. The author should not like to be back as a bookseller for life because _____.

A. he hated his job of selling books

B. selling books was only a part-time job

C. the books in the shop gave him a dislike

D. he was unable to be honest about the books he sold

3. The books preferred by the author should be those

A. stories making readers sleepless

B. valuable ones bought on sale

C. peculiar ones with great expectation

D. geography ones from the eighteenth century

4. The author will only buy new books

A. if he feels dull and tired

B. after he gives up his job as a bookseller

C. which are interesting but hard to borrow

D. when he throws away old ones

 

Answer 1

答案：ADBC
解析：

1. 细节综合分析判断题。从本文首句“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.”的表述，经营书店的必要条件是a good shopping position, the right amount of money,和an educated person。这样就排除了C、D项。B项属于干扰项，多了at the street corner，与短文的陈述不符。 2. 细节判断题。本题应对原文第二节前部分的陈述“…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”进行细节分析判断，不难得出D项为最佳选项。 3. 细节综合分析判断题。从原文第二节后部的陈述“Nothing please me quite so much as to buy a bargain lot of them on sale for several pounds…For occasional reading-…there is nothing as good as a very old picture story-book.”中，可以发现作者喜欢打折扣买来的好书。自然答案应为B项。 4. 事实细节判断题。短文最后一节最后一句“Nowadays I do buy one occasionally, but only if it is a book that I want to read and can’t borrow, and I never buy rubbish.”已作了清楚的交代，当然C项是惟一的选择。