With a good shopping position and the right amount(数量)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 flavor(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the unexpected books you pick up in that kind of collection: little-known eighteenth-century poets , or out-of-date geography books .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(偶尔的)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 borrow, and I never buy rubbish.

　　1.The author should not like to be back as a bookseller for life because .

　　A. he hated his job of selling books_________.

　　B. he lost his love of books.

　　C. the books in the shop gave him a dislike

　　D. he was unable to be honest about the books he sold

　　答案： B

　　解析：填空型细节题，对词法。

　　2. The books preferred by the author should be those_____.

　　A. stories making readers sleepless

　　B. valuable ones bought on sale

　　C. peculiar ones with great expectation

　　D. geography ones from the eighteenth century

　　答案： B

　　解析：填空型细节题，对词法。

　　3. The author will only buy new books .

　　A. if he feels dull and tired

　　B. after he gives up his job as a bookseller

　　C. which are interesting but hard to borrow

　　D. when he throws away old ones

　　答案： B

　　解析：填空型细节题，对词法。

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