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【題目】Twelve-year-old Leonardo was born in a poor family in Peru. He knew how to read but he had never seen a book in his life. So he asked the new priest (牧師) in his village to give him one. But there was no electricity. So Leonardo borrowed candles from the church and sat up all night reading it.

This made John Medcalf, the priest, really moved (感動的). He also realized that people would love to read if given a chance. But he knew how difficult it was for Leonardo and those in his village to get books. And yet, no one can be taught to read and write without books. To make people in a poor area grow to love books, they have to be with them. So he thought the only way was to bring books to people.

But how could this be done? Mobile libraries or car libraries would be too expensive and difficult to continue in the hilly (多丘陵的) land of Peru. So what other methods could be used?

He got a new idea from the barefoot (赤腳) doctors of China. And that was how the barefoot librarians (圖書管理員) first appeared in the villages of northern Peru, almost thirty years ago.

At first, they were teachers of the village schools which these faraway libraries belonged to. But the teachers were not very interested in the job because it meant a lot of hard work. So, the elders in the village took on the job themselves.

Today, there are 600 village libraries across Peru. The barefoot librarians need to walk up to 15 hours a day with bags of books.

【1】From the first paragraph, we can know Leonardo _________.

A. had a lot of books

B. bought candles from others

C. enjoyed reading books

D. lived with the priest

【2】How do you like the priest John Medcalf?

A. Smart and kind.

B. Poor and impolite.

C. Brave and friendly.

D. Strong and cold.

【3】From the passage, we can know that _________.

A. the first church in Peru was set up by John Medcalf

B. car libraries used to be popular in Leonardo’s village

C. teachers were interested in bringing books to villagers

D. the barefoot librarians are important to village libraries

【4】What is this passage mainly about?

A. How people read in Peru.

B. How the barefoot librarians started in Peru.

C. How John Medcalf brought books to people.

D. How people collected books in Peru.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】 C

【2】 A

【3】 D

【4】 B

【解析】

本文講述了Leonardo酷愛讀書的行為感動了牧師，并由此創(chuàng)建了赤腳圖書館的故事。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中第一段He knew how to read but he had never seen a book in his life.可知Leonardo很喜歡讀書，但是因為很窮，沒有書，故A選項錯誤；So Leonardo borrowed candles from the church他從教堂借了一些蠟燭，而不是買了蠟燭，故B選項錯誤；D選項文中并沒有提到；根據(jù)So Leonardo borrowed candles from the church and sat up all night reading it.可知他很喜歡讀書，故選C。

【2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)文中牧師被Leonardo的行為感動說明他很善良，并想盡辦法克服困難成立了赤腳圖書館，說明他很聰明，故選A。

【3】細節(jié)理解題。文中并沒有提到秘魯?shù)谝粋�教堂的成立，而是第一個圖書館的成立，故A錯誤；根據(jù)文中Mobile libraries or car libraries would be too expensive and difficult to continue in the hilly (多丘陵的) land of Peru.可知移動圖書館或車式圖書館在丘陵地區(qū)太昂貴而很難繼續(xù)下去，故B錯誤；根據(jù)But the teachers were not very interested in the job because it meant a lot of hard work.可知老師們對這項工作不感興趣，故C錯誤；根據(jù)文章描述可知鄉(xiāng)村圖書管理的書需要圖書管理員一天步行15小時的時間把書帶過去，這也是唯一的方法，可見圖書管理員對圖書館很重要，D正確；故選D。

【4】主旨大意題。閱讀文章可知，本文主要簡述了牧師John Medcalf被一個孩子Leonardo的讀書行為而感動，從而有了在鄉(xiāng)村成立圖書館的想法，并在自己的努力下，成立了赤腳圖書館，結(jié)合所給選項故選B。