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【题目】阅读理解

“One City One Book” is a generic name (通称) for a community reading program that attempts to get everyone in a city to read and discuss the same book.Popular book picks have been Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird,Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying,and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.

“One City One Book” programs take the idea of a localized book discussion club and expand it to cover a whole city.The first such program was “If All of Seattle Read the Same Book” in 1998,started by Nancy Pearl at Seattle Public Library’s Washington Center for the Book.The book chosen for the program was The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks,written in 1991.Other cities copied the idea,and the Library of Congress listed 404 programs occurring in 2007.

Each city’s program has its own goals;these typically include building a sense of community and promoting literacy.Nancy Pearl warns against expecting too much from a program:“Keep in mind that this is a library program,it’s not an exercise in civics,and that it’s not intended to have literature cure the racial divide.This is about a work of literature.”

Programs typically involve more than having everyone read the same book.Some other activities that have been included are:book discussion sessions,scholarly lectures on the book or related topics,a visit by the author,exhibits,related arts programming (especially showing a movie of the book if there is one),and integration into school curricula.In Boston the “One City One Story” program used shorter stories and distributed tens of thousands of free copies of the story over the course of a month.

American Library Association puts out a detailed stepbystep guide on how to organize a local program,including the critical step of picking the one book.The Center for the Book at the Library of Congress tracks all known programs and the books they have used.

【1】“One City One Book” programs ________.

A.ask everyone in a city to donate one book

B.can rid a city of racial divide through reading

C.choose short stories for people to read

D.encourage everyone in a city to read and discuss the same book

【2】We know from the second paragraph that “One City One Book” programs ________.

A.became popular very quickly

B.have been held more than 400 times in Seattle

C.were sponsored by the Library of Congress

D.reached its peak in 2007

【3】We can infer from the third paragraph that Nancy Pearl ________.

A.expects much from the programs

B.didn’t expect that the programs would run so well

C.has a practical attitude towards the programs

D.believes the programs will push forward community building

【4】What kind of role does American Library Association play in the programs?

A.It picks out the city which runs the programs well.

B.It gives free books to the host city.

C.It gives a practical guide to the programs.

D.It keeps a record of all known programs.

【答案】

【1】D

【2】A

【3】C

【4】C

【解析】

试题分析:

【1】细节理解题。从文章第一段第一句可知,这个活动旨在让同一个城市的人们读同一本书并共同评论这本书。

【2】推理判断题。从文章第二段可知,当西雅图在1998年首先推出这个活动以后,其他城市也纷纷效仿,到2007年这个活动已经在400多个城市推出,可见这个活动流行得非常迅速。

【3】推理判断题。从文章第三段中Nancy Pearl的话可知,她警告人们不要对这个活动期望太多,说明她对这个活动持有十分务实的态度。

【4】细节理解题。从文章最后一段可知,美国图书馆协会负责具体指导活动的开展。

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