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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
contribute a better environment for the future
B
get rid of all the objects he did not really need
C
do something in memory of his parents
D
share his great wealth with less fortunate people
正确答案 :C
解析
本题考查事实细节。
根据题干关键词 “start his project” 定位到的第四段第一二句 “Guanlao started his library in 2000, shortly after the death of his parents. He was looking for something to honor their rememberance...” 可知,Guanlao 于2000你那在他父母去世之后不久创办了他的图书馆,他在寻找一些东西来纪念他们。即他想通过推广从他父母那里继承的读书习惯来纪念自己的父母。
C项:do something in memory of his parents. 做点事情来纪念他的父母。这是定位内容的同义表达。符合题意,故选C。
A项:contribute a better environment for the future. 为未来创造更美好的环境。不符合题意,故排除。
B项:get rid of all the objects he did not really need. 清楚他并不真正需要的所有物品。不符合题意,故排除。
D项:share his great wealth with less fortunate people. 和不太幸运的人分享他的财富。不符合题意,故排除。
故本题答案为C。
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