2024 is the 21st year of a free library in a mountain village in Shaoyang, Hunan Province. 77-year-old Yang Guangxun started the “Ziqiang Library”.
Yang was born in this village and became a book lover when he was very young. He owned over 300 books at home. When he retired in 2002, he and his wife sometimes went back to the village for they didn’t need to work any longer. Learning village children often had trouble finding enough books to work, Yang decided to give away all his books to start the library in August 2003. He hoped everyone in the village will make their lives rich and colorful through reading.
Over the past 21 years, Yang has given away plenty of money to buy more books for the library. With 6 reading rooms, it now stores over 54,000 books and has 30,000 visitors every year. Since Yang and his wife don’t always live in the village, they invite relatives and friends to work as volunteers and take care of the library. There are 16 volunteers working in the library all year round as the library is open every day, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Thanks to the library, many villagers fall in love with reading, and many students get great grades or get into universities. They all think reading is the best thing in the world.
【小题1】What does the underlined word “
retire” mean in Chinese?
【小题2】Why did Yang give away all his books?
| A．To teach villagers learn to read. | B．To raise a lot of money for the library. |
| C．To help village children read books. | D．To make his life rich and meaningful. |
【小题3】Which of the following can best describe Yang?
| A．Confident. | B．Kind. | C．Smart. | D．Outgoing. |
【小题4】What can we infer (推断) from the last two paragraphs?
| A．Ziqiang Library can not develop any longer soon. | B．Villagers can read in the library just on weekdays. |
| C．Yang and his wife work in the library all the year. | D．Ziqiang Library has changed the life of the village. |
【小题5】What does the text mainly tell us?
| A．Volunteers work in a library. | B．An old man set up a free library. |
| C．Many people fall in love in reading. | D．A couple spent lots of money on books. |
