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Public Library
If you put all the books you own on the street outside your house, you would expect them to disappear in a flash. But one man in Manila tried it and found that his collections grew. Hernando Guanlao is a cheerful man in his early 60s, with a strong passion—books. They’re his pride and joy.
Guanlao has set up an informal library outside his home in central Manila to encourage his local community to share his joy of reading. The idea is simple: Readers can take as many books as they want, for as long as they want, even permanently. It’s a policy that you might assume it would end very quickly— with Guanlao having no books at all.
But in fact, in the 12 years he’s been running his library and he’s found that his collection has grown rather than diminished, as more and more people donate books to the cause.
Guanlao started his library in 2000, shortly after the death of his parents. He was looking for something to honor their remembrance (回忆), and that was when he got the idea of promoting the reading habit he’d inherited (继承). “I saw my old textbooks upstairs and came up with the idea of having the public use them,” he says. So he put the books outside the door of his house to see if anyone wanted to borrow them. They did, and they brought the books back with others to add to the collection. The library was born.
Somehow, every day, a steady stream of people find their way there to browse (浏览) and to contribute. But it’s people like Celine who sustain (支撑) the library. She lives down the road from Guanlao, which gives her opportunity to help by regularly visiting with big bags of books. She says she loves the concept because Filipinos—certainly those who are not particularly wealthy—have limited accesses to books. “Considering the income here, I think parents have other priorities(优先考虑的事情).”
As we sit outside Guanlao’s house watching people browse through the collection, he tells me why he thought it was worth spending all his time— even to the point of giving up his job and surviving purely on his savings— to maintain the library. He has also given several boxes of books to a man trying to set up a similar project outside Manila. “You don’t do justice to these books if you put them in a cabinet or a box,” he says. “A book should be used and reused. It has life, and it has a message. As a book caretaker, you become a cheerful man.”
A
He has found a way to earn money with his library.
B
He is clearly pleased with the choice he has made.
C
He changed his job because he spent too much time on his library.
D
He wants to make his business more profitable by expanding the library.
正确答案 :B
解析
本题考查主旨大意。
根据题干关键词 “the last paragraph” 定位到的最后一段可知,Guanlao向作者讲述了为什么他认为值得花所有的时间,甚至到了放弃工作,纯粹靠积蓄生存的地步,来维护图书馆的原因。他还把书赠给了一个想设立相似图书馆的人。他认为书是有生命且有信息价值的,书应该被使用和重复利用。作为一名图书管理员,你会成为一个快乐的人。
B项:He is clearly pleased with the choice he has made. 他对于自己的选择明显感到满意。符合题意,故选B。
A项:He has found a way to earn money with his library. 他找到了用他的图书馆去挣钱的方法。不符合题意,故排除。
C项:He changed his job because he spent too much time on his library. 他换了工作,因为他花了太多时间在图书馆上。不符合题意,故排除。
D项:He wants to make his business more profitable by expanding the library. 他想通过扩建图书馆使他的生意能赚更多。
故本题答案为B。
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