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 10th?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 pay?off, 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 stands near a sidewalk.

C．It protects book lovers from the sun.

D．It uses palm?tree stickers as decorations.

2.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

3.The library was built ________.

A．by a ship supply company

B．on the basis of toy horses

C．like a mailbox

D．with glass

4.What can we infer from 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.

5.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

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.D

3.C

4.C

5.A

【解析】文章主要介绍了Janey Henriksen一家建立微型图书馆的故事。

1.答案：B　细节理解题。根据文章第一段第二句可知这家图书馆是为了方便爱读书的行人借书而建立的，因此B项正确。

2.2】答案：D　细节理解题。根据文章第三段第一句可知Janey Henriksen看到一篇关于the Little Free Library organization的报告后受到启发，因而产生了建立这样的图书馆的想法。

3.3】答案：C　细节理解题。根据文章第四段第一句的内容可知C项正确。

4.4】答案：C　推理判断题。根据文章第五段的内容可知，这个标牌要求借书者拿走一本书就要归还一本书，其目的是使图书馆能够持续更长的时间。

5.5】答案：A　细节理解题。根据文章倒数第二段第一句可知借书者经常捐书给图书馆，因此A项正确。文章没有提到为图书馆收集书会有报酬，因此B项错误；文章最后一段提到Peter说经常收到借书者的感谢信，而不是借书者收到感谢信，因此C项错误；文章倒数第二段第二句提到图书馆现在平均每天接待5个人，因此D项错误。

疑难词汇解读

1．resemble vt.类似，像

She resembles her brother in looks.她和她弟弟长得很像。

2．donation n．捐赠物，捐款

a generous donation慷慨的捐助

长难句子分析

It's such a happy?looking library，painted yellow，decorated with palm?tree stickers and sheltered from the Florida sun by its own roof.

分析：此句的主干是It's such a happy?looking library，painted yellow，decorated with palm?tree stickers和sheltered from the Florida sun by its own roof是三个并列的过去分词短语作定语修饰library。

句意：这是一家看起来非常温馨的图书馆，刷了黄色的漆，用了棕榈树贴纸装饰，并且它的屋顶遮住了来自佛罗里达州的阳光。