In 1638, John Harvard donated some money and about four hundred books to a new university. This was the beginning of the library at Harvard University. The gift was so important that the university was named for John Harvard.

Thomas Bray began the first free lending library in the late 1600s. He set up more than 30 or these libraries in the American colonies. However, the idea for this kind of free library ended when Bray died in 1730. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin and some friends started the first subscription（訂閱費(fèi)） library in the United States. In a subscription library people pay money to become members, but they mayborrowthe books without paying again.

In the United States, every child had a free education. This idea soon led to free libraries. One of the first libraries that used tax money to buy books was a library in Peterborough, New Hampshire. This library was set up in 1833.

1.The main idea of paragraph 2 is________.

A. Franklin started the first subscription library

B. in a subscription library people pay money to become members

C. Bray and Franklin were important in the history of public libraries

D. Bray died in 1730 and Franklin died in 1833

2.The underlined word “borrow” means_______.

A. read and write with no help from another person

B. use for a short time and then return

C. like very much

D. lend

3.The reading does not say it, but we can guess that_______.

A. there were free schools in the United States before there were free libraries

B. free schools and free libraries in the United States began at about the same time

C. the library in New Hampshire also had a free school in it

D. there were free libraries in the United States before there were free schools

4.Havard University began_______.

A. in 1731 B. in 1730

C. in 1833 D. in 1638

5.At the library that Franklin started, ________.

A. children could use books for no money at all

B. people paid a little money in the beginning but none after that

C. people paid a lot of money in the beginning but none after that

D. both A and B

1.C 2.B 3.A 4.D 5.B 【解析】本文介紹了美國圖書館的來歷。Thomas Bray 在17世紀(jì)末創(chuàng)辦了第一家免費(fèi)借閱的圖書館。在1773年Benjamin Franklin和他的一些朋友創(chuàng)辦了第一家會(huì)員圖書館。在1833年，在Peterborough, New Hampshire建立了一家用稅收買書的圖書館，大家可以免費(fèi)借書。 1.C 推理...
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