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, 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 10^th-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 (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.”

Answer 1

【图式导读】 这是一篇有关迷你开放图书馆的记叙文，讲述了Janey一家人如何创建了该社区第一家免费的迷你开放图书馆的事情。

段落	关键词、句	大意推测
第一部分 Para. 1	happy-looking library, painted yellow, decorated with palm-tree stickers	介绍迷你图书馆的外形
第二部分 Para. 2-6	built with love; saw report about the Little Free Library organization; modified a small wooden house; made a door of glass; hung a signboard… instructing users to ‘take a book, return a book; stocked it with books	介绍图书馆的缘由 和 创建过程
第三部分 Para.7-8	keeps replenishing itself; average of five visits a day thank-you notes left behind; so popular	图书馆建成后的收效

【解析】

66.  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.

66. B。 细节判断题。根据题干提示pedestrian-friendly可迅速定位答案位置在第一段，通读选项，可发现选项B中的sidewalk（人行道）是pedestrian（行人）的关联词，near是next to 的同义词。图书馆‘紧挨着人行道’自然是‘方便行人的’，所以选项B正确。

【干扰项排除】 其他三个选项都是对图书馆外形的描述，均与题目要求不符，故可以排除。

【解题思路】 解决细节判断题应将问题所对应的原文与选项进行比较，对原文进行同义改写的选项是正确答案。同义改写的主要方法是关键词替换，就是说原文对应句中的关键词在正确答案中被换成了同义词。

67.  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

67. D。 细节判断题。根据题干提示got the idea（有了这个想法）可迅速定位答案位置在第二段… after Janey Henriksen saw a Brian Williams report about the Little Free Library organization, she announced‘ That’s what we’re going to do。意思是说Janey Henriksen是在读了一个Little Free Library的报告后，宣布‘这就是我们要做的’课知这份报告是她有了这个想法由来。通读选项，可发现选项D中的a report on a Wisconsin-based organization是句中的‘原词再现’，所以选项D正确。

【干扰项排除】 选项A中的一部分（to visit）原文没有提及，选项B与原文的表述不符，选项C原文没有提及故可以排除。

68.  The library was built _____.

       A. by a ship supply company

       B. on the basis of toy horses

       C. like a mailbox

       D. with glass

68. C。 细节判断题。根据题干built可定位答案在第四段 …didn’t see the point of building a library that resembles a mailbox. 选项C中的like是原句中resembles的同义词（像……），mailbox是原词再现，因此可知选项C正确。

【干扰项排除】 选项A偷换原文概念（原文提及男主人是船舶供应公司的老板），选项B与原文的表述不符，选项C只是与原部分对应（门是用玻璃做的），故可以排除。

【解题思路】 当题干中出现下列标志词汇，如infer，conclude，imply，suggest，learn等，即可判断为推理题。推理题的做题关键是，通过题干或选项返回原文，将选项与原文一一进行比较。正确答案要么将原文某句话换个说法，要么做一步推理（通常不会做多步推理）。选项中与原文意思最接近、推理步骤最少的为正确答案。

69.  What can we infer about 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.

69. C。 判断推理题。 根据题干the signboard可定位答案在第五段 the family hung a signboard on the front, instructing users to ‘take a book, return a book,’ 为什么牌子上要写上‘借一本，还一本’呢？图书馆资源有限，如果使用者都是‘只借不还’，图书馆就无法维持下去了。这样就得出结论：写这样的牌子是‘为了让图书馆长久持续下去’，与选项C意思相符，因此选项C正确。

【干扰项排除】选项A与原文表述相反，选项B是原文再现，无需推理，选项D与原文意思表述相悖（公益图书馆），故都可以排除。

70.  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

69. C。 细节判断题。根据题干users的同义词borrowers可定位答案在第七段 the collection keeps replenishing itself, thanks to ongoing donations from borrowers. 选项A中的（users） donate books to the library与原文的donations from borrowers为同义表达，因此可知选项A正确。

【干扰项排除】选项B与原文表述相反（donate 捐赠，是无偿的），选项C与原文表述相反（使用者留下答谢卡而非收到），最具干扰作用的选项D，外延扩大，原文中没有over（超过）的表述，都可以排除。

【难句学习】

1.        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!’

【翻译】一年前，Janey Henriksen看到了一份关于一个‘迷你免费图书馆’组织的报告。这是一家始建于Wisconsin的一个非盈利组织，其宗旨是通过创办随手可得的图书来促进阅读并邻里间的创建社区观念。在这之后不就，她就向四口之家宣布：“这就是我们今年春假要做的事情！”

【分析】主句结构：she announced to her family of four，后面引号中的句子是announced的宾语。主句之前是一个after引导的时间状语从句，状语从句的主谓结构是：she saw a report about…organization；从句逗号后面的插入语是一个同位语，补充说明前面的organization，其中含有一个that引导的定语从句，具体说明了这个组织的创建宗旨。

2.        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.

【翻译】 这个51岁的船舶供应公司的老板将他几年前为女儿Abbie的玩具木马造的一个小木头房子做了改造，而且还加上了一个玻璃门。

【分析】 主句结构：The …owner … modified a… house，后面是一个由that引导的定语从句，修饰先行词house。 逗号后面是一个and连接的并列句。

3.        After adding the library’s final touches, 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.

【翻译】在给图书馆添上了最后的点缀之后，家人在它的前面挂上了一个提示牌，提醒使用者‘借一本，还一本’，也使得它成为了棕榈滩郡的唯一的迷你开放图书馆。现在类似的图书馆在全国有几百家，在全世界已超过2,500家。

【分析】主句结构：the family hung a signboard on the front, instructing … and making… ，其中的两个分词短语分别表示目的和结果。中间的one of… 是library的同位语，补充介绍这类图书馆的现状。