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阅读理解。 “One City One Book” is a generic name (通称) for a community reading program that attempts to get everyone in a city to read and discuss the same book.Popular book picks have been Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird，Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying，and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. “One City One Book” programs take the idea of a localized book discussion club and expand it to cover a whole city.The first such program was “If All of Seattle Read the Same Book” in 1998，started by Nancy Pearl at Seattle Public Library’s Washington Center for the Book.The book chosen for the program was The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks，written in 1991.Other cities copied the idea，and the Library of Congress listed 404 programs occurring in 2007. Each city’s program has its own goals；these typically include building a sense of community and promoting literacy.Nancy Pearl warns against expecting too much from a program：“Keep in mind that this is a library program，it’s not an exercise in civics，and that it’s not intended to have literature cure the racial divide.This is about a work of literature.” Programs typically involve more than having everyone read the same book.Some other activities that have been included are：book discussion sessions，scholarly lectures on the book or related topics，a visit by the author，exhibits，related arts programming (especially showing a movie of the book if there is one)，and integration into school curricula.In Boston the “One City One Story” program used shorter stories and distributed tens of thousands of free copies of the story over the course of a month. American Library Association puts out a detailed step­by­step guide on how to organize a local program，including the critical step of picking the one book.The Center for the Book at the Library of Congress tracks all known programs and the books they have used. 【小题1】“One City One Book” programs________.A．ask everyone in a city to donate one bookB．can rid a city of racial divide through readingC．choose short stories for people to readD．encourage everyone in a city to read and discuss the same book【小题2】We know from the second paragraph that “One City One Book” programs________.A．became popular very quicklyB．have been held more than 400 times in SeattleC．were sponsored by the Library of CongressD．reached its peak in 2007【小题3】We can infer from the third paragraph that Nancy Pearl________.A．expects much from the programsB．didn’t expect that the programs would run so wellC．has a practical attitude towards the programsD．believes the programs will push forward community building【小题4】What kind of role does American Library Association play in the programs?A．It picks out the city which runs the programs well.B．It gives free books to the host city.C．It gives a practical guide to the programs.D．It keeps a record of all known programs. |
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