题目内容
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项。
With a good shopping position and the right amount(数量)of money,any educated person ought 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 l 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 flavour(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the unexpected books you pick up in that kind of collection:little-known eighteenth-century poets,or out-of-date geography books.For occasional(偶尔的)reading-in your bath,for example,or late at night when you are too tired to go to bed-there is nothing as good as a very old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 l went to work in the bookshop l 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.
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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________.
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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________.
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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________.
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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
解析:
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这是一道细节推断题。第一段“ 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”表明一个受过教育的店主是开办书店的必备条件。这是一道细节推断题。根据第二段“ The real 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”可判断出作者之所以不愿意以开办书店为生的原因。这是一道细节推断题。根据第三段的内容可推断出作者所指的书是那些有价值的书。 这是一道细节推断题。最后一句话“ Nowadays I do buy one occasion-ally,but only if is a book that I want to read can't borrow,and I never buy rubbish”说明作者买那些有趣而且借不到的书。 |