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周测卷(十四)(范围:必修第三册Unit4)
(时间:40分钟满分:100分)》
1.阅读理解(共8小题,每小题5分,满分40分)》
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阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
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Jose Alberto Gutierrez's life would never be the same again after finding a copy of Anna
Karenina by Leo Tolstoy in the garbage 20 years ago.It happened while he was driving his garbage
truck through wealthier neighborhoods at night and seeing deserted books.It sparked his desire to start
rescuing books from the garbage.He took home between 50 and 60 books every morning after his
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nine-hour shift.Eventually,he turned his book collection into a community library.
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Colombia's capital city of Bogota has 13 million residents and 19 public libraries.However,these
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libraries tend to be far away from where rural and poorer communities live.The option of buying new
books is non-existent for families struggling to make ends meet.Having access to a library of books
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and being taken away to another world while immersed in a book is a luxury for the kids who visit
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Gutierrez's library.
Gutierrez grew up poor,and his family could not afford to educate him beyond primary school.
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Nevertheless,his mother was a keen reader and read stories to him every night.Her love for books left
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a deep impression on Gutierrez,who never let a lack of formal education stop him from reading
classics by the likes of Victor Hugo,Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Today,his community library,called "The Strength of Words",occupies most of his home and
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is piled from floor to ceiling with fiction and non-fiction titles.Everything from school textbooks to
story books can be found in his collection of more than 20,000 books!
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The Strength of Words library opens every weekend.It is not just school-going children who are
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enjoying the benefits of The Strength of Words library.Adults are also welcome to expand their
horizons and develop new skills to build a better life for themselves.
Despite having done so much for his community,Gutierrez is not yet content to call it a