Question

    I never knew anyone who’d grown up in Jackson without being afraid of Mrs. Calloway, our librarian. She ran Jackson’s Carnegie Library absolutely by herself. SILENCE in big black letters was on signs hung everywhere. If she thought you were dressed improperly, she sent you straight back home to change your clothes. I was willing; I would do anything to read.

My mother was not afraid of Mrs. Calloway. She wished me to have my own library card to check out books for myself. She took me in to introduce me. “Eudora is nine years old and has my permission to read any book she wants from the shelves, children or adults,” Mother said.

Mrs. Calloway made her own rules about books. You could not take back a book to the library on the same day you’d taken it out; it made no difference to her that you’d read every word in it and needed another to start. You could take out two books at a time and two only. So two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. I knew this was extreme happiness, knew it at the time.

My mother shared this feeling of mine. Now, I think of her as reading so much of the time while doing something else. I remember her reading a magazine while taking the part of the Wolf in a game of “Little Red Riding Hood” with my brother’s two daughters. She’d just look up at the right time, long enough to answer—in character —“The better to eat you with, my dear,” and go back to her place in the magazine article.

1.Which of the following best describes Mrs. Calloway?

A.Quiet. B.Considerate.

C.Boring. D.Strict.

2.What do the underlined words “this feeling” refer to in the last paragraph?

A.Interest in games. B.Love for Mrs. Calloway.

C.Desire to read. D.Fear of the library rules.

3.Where is the text probably from?

A.A guidebook. B.An autobiography.

C.A news report. D.A book review.

Answer

1.D

2.C

3.B

【解析】

这是一篇记叙文。文章主要内容为作者非常喜爱阅读，并保持着在图书馆中阅读和借阅书籍的习惯，而作者的母亲也和作者一样拥有对读书的渴望。

1.

推理判断题。根据第一段中I never knew anyone who’d grown up in Jackson without being afraid of Mrs. Calloway our librarian.( 我从来没见过哪个在杰克逊长大的人不害怕我们的图书管理员卡洛维夫人)以及SILENCE in big black letters was on signs hung everywhere. If she thought you were dressed improperly, she sent you straight back home to change your clothes.(到处都挂着牌子，上面用黑色的大字写着“肃静”。如果她认为你穿得不合适，她会直接让你回家换衣服)可知Mrs. Calloway很严格。故选D。

2.

词义猜测题。根据下文Now, I think of her as reading so much of the time while doing something else.( 现在，我觉得她在做其他事情的同时，也在阅读)可知作者的妈妈也非常喜欢阅读，故作者的母亲和作者一样渴望读书。故划线短语this feeling指的是“渴望读书”。故选C。

3.

推理判断题。结合文章主要内容可知，作者非常喜爱阅读，并保持着在图书馆中阅读和借阅书籍的习惯，而作者的母亲也和作者一样渴望读书。故可推测文章可能来自于一份自传。故选B。