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Enjoy reading and appreciate life meaning. You must have always known reading is of importance and just think of the people who belong to book groups. They choose books to read and then meet to discuss them. Now, the website BookCrossing. com turns the page on the traditional idea of a book group.
Members go on the site and register the books they own and would like to share. BookCrossing provides an identification number to stick inside the book. Then the person leaves it in a public place, hoping that the book will have all adventure, traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds it.
Bruce Pederson, the managing director of BookCrossing, says, “The two things that change your life are the people you meet and books you read. BookCrossing combines both.”
Members leave books on park benches and buses, in train stations and coffee shops. Whoever finds their book will go to the site and record where they found it.
People who find a book can also leave a journal entry describing what they thought of it. Emails are then sent to the BookCrossing to keep them updated about where their books have been found. Bruce Pederson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.
BookCrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to the “real” and not the virtual (虚拟). The site now has more than one million members in more than one hundred thirtyfive countries.
[语篇解读] 本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了一个叫作BookCrossing的网站的功能和设置该网站的目的。
1.Why does the author mention book groups in the first paragraph?
A.To encourage readers to share their ideas.
B.To stress the importance of reading.
C.To attract more book groups.
D.To introduce the website.
解析 D 推理判断题。根据第一段内容可知,作者在第一段提到读书小组是为了介绍BookCrossing这个网站。
2.What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A.An adventure.
B.The book.
C.A public place.
D.The identification number.
解析 B 代词指代题。根据it所在句的意思可知,那些留下书的人希望自己的书能够随着找到它的人走得更远。其中的it指代前半句提到的同一事物the book。
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