Question

With a good shopping position and the right amount of money, any educated person ought to be able to make a living out of a bookshop. It is not a difficult trade to learn and the large chain-stores can never force the small bookseller out of existence as they have done to the corner shop. But the hours of work are very long---I was only doing a part-time job, but my boss put in a seventy---hour week, besides regular journeys out of shopping hours to buy books.

The real reason why I should not like to be back in the book trade for life, however, is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller cannot always tell the truth about his books, and that gives him a dislike for them. There was a time when I really did love books---loved the sight and smell and feel of them---if they were fifty or more years old, that is. Nothing pleased me quite so much as to buy a bargain lot of them on sale for several pounds. There is a peculiar flavour（独特的味道）about the unexpected books you pick up in that kind of collection: little-known eighteenth-century poets, or out-of-date geography books. For occasional reading---in your bath, for example, or late at night when you are too tired to go to bed---there is nothing as good as a very old picture story-book.

But as soon as I went to work in the bookshop I stopped buying books. Seen in a mass, five or ten thousand at a time, books were dull and even a little tiresome. Nowadays I do buy one occasionally, but only if it is a book that I want to read and can’t be borrowed easily, and I never buy rubbish.

1.List two conditions that are necessary to run a bookshop. (No more than 9 words)

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2.Why didn’t the author want to go back to the book trade? (No more than 10 words)

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3.What did the author feel most pleased about? (No more than 8 words)

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4.How did the author feel when he saw large quantities of books in the bookshop? (No more than 6 words)

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5.What kind of books does the author buy occasionally now? (No more than 10 words)

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Answer 1

1.a good shopping position; the right amount of money.

2.Because he lost his love of books while in it.

3.Buying a lot of old books on sale.

4.He felt bored/dull or even annoyed/impatient.

5.The books/The ones/Those that attract/interest him and are hard to borrow.

Or: The interesting books that are hard to borrow.

The books/Those that are interesting and hard to borrow.

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述作者在一家书店打工。只要有好的商铺位置和适量的金钱应该就有能力以卖书为生。但是工作时间非常长，这让我有些疲倦。而真正的原因是我再也不想回去从事以卖书为生的人生了，当我在书店，看到到处都堆得乱七八糟，满满的书，我失去了对书本的热爱，以前我会到处选书，买书。而一旦回到书店打工，我就再也不想买书了。除非是我特别想读，而且又是借不到的书，我才会偶然购买，我再也不会买回一堆垃圾了。

1. a good shopping position and the right amount of money, any educated person ought to be able to make a living out of a bookshop.“有个好的商铺位置和适量的金钱，任何受过教育的人都能开书店谋生”。故填a good shopping position; the right amount of money.

2. real reason why I should not like to be back in the book trade for life, however, is that while I was in it I lost my love of books.“但是，我再不想回去卖书的真正原因是，当我身处书店，我就失去了对书的热爱”。故填Because he lost his love of books while in it.

3. pleased me quite so much as to buy a bargain lot of them on sale for several pounds.“让我非常高兴的是，我只需花费几英镑就能买回很多特别便宜的书”。故填Buying a lot of old books on sale.

4. in a mass, five or ten thousand at a time, books were dull and even a little tiresome.“当大批，且同时看到五千或一万册在一起后，书本就令人心烦乃至微感恶心”。故填He felt bored/dull or even annoyed/impatient.

5. I do buy one occasionally, but only if it is a book that I want to read and can’t be borrowed easily, and I never buy rubbish.“现在，我也会偶尔买一两本书，但仅仅是我特别想读的，且轻易借不到的书，我才会买，我再也不会买回一堆垃圾了”。故填The books/The ones/Those that attract/interest him and are hard to borrow.Or: The interesting books that are hard to borrow.Or: The books/Those that are interesting and hard to borrow.

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