Question

　　SAN FRANCISCO--The“Reading Wizard”（巫师）, an 11-year-old boy, whose offer to read to children without being paid at a local library was refused by libraries, will get to read to younger kids after all.

　　Mayor Willie Brown last Wednesday ordered San Francisco Public Library officials to al-low John O'Connor to read to preschool children to get them interested in books and stop them from watching television and video games.

　　“I didn't expect this kind of attention,”John said.“It's just shocking.”

　　John has chosen his first book, The King's Giraffe, and made up fliers inviting neighborhood children, aged from three to six, to the Presidio Branch every Wednesday afternoon He planned to call himself the“Reading Wizard”and wear a special hat, fake glasses and a black coat.

　　But his idea was refused--on the phone, in person and finally with a letter from Toni Bernardi, the chief of the library's children and youth services. Using terms like“age-appropriate material”（适龄读物）,she wrote that only library workers were allowed to read to children.

　　John then went to a member of the city board of supervisors（督导董事会）, who advised him to write letters to the library officials.“Our libraries are supposed to turn kids on, not turn them off.”

(1) Who is the“Reading Wizard”?

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A．Presidio Branch.

B．The King's Giraffe.

C．John O'Conner.

D．Toni Bernardi.

(2) The 11-year-old boy asked librarians at the local library for permission to ________.

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A．play video games

B．wear something strange

C．design fliers for new books

D．read stories to young children

(3) By dressing up as a wizard, the boy probably hoped to ________.

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A．put up a performance

B．frighten the three-year-old boys

C．get the officials shocked

D．attract the children's attention

(4) We can infer that Mayor Willie Brown ________.

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A．praised the boy for his new idea

B．received a call from the library for children

C．informed the boy to stop reading to children

D．held a party for John and his friends at the library

(5) The underlined sentence in the passage means that our libraries ________.

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A．should allow kids to read to younger children

B．should get children interested, not bored

C．should open the door while the children are outside

D．will turn on the lights when kids come in, and turn them off when kids go out

Answer 1

答案：C;D;D;A;B
解析：

(1) C；从第一段和第二段可以看出。 (2) D；从第一段能看出，他想为小孩读书。 (3) D；从第二、四段能找到答案。 (4) A；市长通知图书馆允许John O'Connor为小孩读书。 (5) B；这是最终目的。