Question

The popular TV program Readers has prompted more people in China to practice reading aloud in booths(亭) set up in big cities across the country．

As the latest TV show to help people’s love for literature recover, CCTV program Readers invites people from all walks of life to read aloud their favorite poems，essays and books，or even personal letters they wrote to their loved ones．Just as the weekly show has been well-received，its reading booths, equipped with professional recording devices and cameras，have become instant hits．

A crowd of more than 200 people were pictured lining up outside the Shanghai Library at 11 a.m. on March 4 — the first day of the booth’s opening to the public in Shanghai. The deadline for registrations was brought forward to 2 p.m. instead of the scheduled 5:30 p.m., as the number of waiting readers continued to grow. Some waited more than nine hours for a try-out in the booth, according to library management．

“There is an old photo in the late 1970s capturing people lining up outside the Shanghai Library before it opens. If that was a spring of reading in Shanghai, now I think another spring has arrived again.” library manager Zhou Deming, told the Shanghai-based The Paper．

The reading booth is the only one of its kind in the city of economic center at the moment, but more are expected to be put into use in the coming months, according to the library’s website．

The Readers program has also led to booths in other cities including Beijing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Xi’an to appeal to more people to read and share their life stories．

With the recent boom of culture-themed TV shows such as Readers and Chinese Poetry Competition，some are optimistic that this will help the country love literature and reading again in general．

1.CCTV program Readers aims to

A. teach people what to read.

B. arouse people’s fresh enthusiasm for reading.

C. invite people to read aloud in the booth.

D. attract people’s attention to CCTV.

2.We can learn from Paragraph 3 that

A. the time for registrations was lengthened for three and a half hours.

B. March 4 was the first day of the opening of Shanghai Library.

C. on March 4, 200 people read in the booth.

D. some people waited for a long time to read in the booth.

3.The passage mainly tells us that

A. Readers has inspired more people to read aloud in reading booths.

B. more reading booths will be set up in the future.

C. Readers has become popular all over China.

D. many people line up to read aloud in reading booths.

Answer

1.B

2.D

3.A

【解析】文章主要讲述了随着CCTV的朗读者节目受到人们的欢迎，全国范围开始刮起了读书风。各大城市纷纷建立起了阅读亭，人们阅读的兴趣也越来越高。

1.推理判断题。根据文章第二段“As the latest TV show to help people’s love for literature recover”作为最新的帮助人们恢复对文字热爱的电视节目。可知Readers目的在于帮助人们对阅读重新燃起热情。故选B。

2.细节理解题。根据第三段“The deadline for registrations was brought forward to 2 p.m. instead of the scheduled 5:30 p.m. ” 注册截止日期提前到下午2点，而不是原定下午5:30 ，可知选项A报名时间延长了三个半小时，选项A错误；“the first day of the booth’s opening to the public in Shanghai.”读书亭第一天向公众开放，而不是上海图书馆第一天开放，选项B错误；“A crowd of more than 200 people were pictured lining up outside the Shanghai Library at 11 a.m. on March 4” 3月4日上午11点，一群超过200人的人被安排在上海图书馆外排队，选项C错误；“Some waited more than nine hours for a try-out in the booth, according to library management．” 根据图书馆管理，有些人在展台等了九个多小时。可知人们为了感受阅读亭，等了很长时间。故选D。

3.主旨大意题。通读文章可知本文主要讲述了随着电视节目朗读者的受欢迎，阅读亭也悄然而生，人们的阅读兴趣被极大地激发。故选A。

【名师点睛】

细节理解题是英语阅读理解最重要的一类题型。它的答案往往不是文章中的细节在选项中的简单重复，而是根据文中的细节经过合理的推理或转化得出的。按照答案在原文中出现的位置，细节理解可以分为集中型细节理解题和分散型细节理解题。

集中型：就文章的单个细节提问，答案在原文中出现的位置一般也位于单句话或几句话中。

分散型：题目涉及到文章某一段或几段，甚至贯穿全文的各个位置，需要同学们寻找文章中的多个细节。需要注意的是分散型细节理解题并不意味着题目的正确答案出现在文章的不同位置，正确答案往往也是关于文章的某一的句子或细节。本篇阅读的第二题属于细节理解题，它属于分散型的细节理解题，四个选项都出自第三段的细节。第三段中的细节“The deadline for registrations was brought forward to 2 p.m. instead of the scheduled 5:30 p.m. ” 注册截止日期提前到下午2点，而不是原定下午5:30 ，可知选项A报名时间延长了三个半小时，选项A错误；“the first day of the booth’s opening to the public in Shanghai.”读书亭第一天向公众开放，而不是上海图书馆第一天开放，选项B错误；“A crowd of more than 200 people were pictured lining up outside the Shanghai Library at 11 a.m. on March 4” 3月4日上午11点，一群超过200人的人被安排在上海图书馆外排队，选项C错误；“Some waited more than nine hours for a try-out in the booth, according to library management．” 根据图书馆管理，有些人在展台等了九个多小时。可知人们为了感受阅读亭，等了很长时间。故选D。