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 Are you looking for a good book to read? Do you need information about universities in the United States? Do you want to know the correct price of a used car? Would you like to read newspapers and magazines from different countries? Do you need a quiet place to study? Did you answer "yes" to any of these questions? Then you should visit "the information place" -- your local library.

     A library is more than just a place where books are stored. A library is a source of information. That information may come from books (fiction, nonfiction, or reference books), from periodicals (newspapers, magazines, and journals), from audio-visual material (records, cassettes microfilm, video tapes, etc.) or even from a computer terminal.

     Students go to libraries to study and to write research papers. The periodicals room of a university library is where foreign students often find newspapers and magazines from their countries. In the reference room, they can find catalogs from many universities in the U.S. and other countries. If you are buying a used car, the reference librarian can show you the Blue Book, which lists the prices of new and used cars. People who need information in a burry can telephone the reference librarian at many libraries.

     There are as many different library services as there are types of people who use them. Children's libraries provide materials for young readers. They sometimes have storytellers who read stories to groups of children, and a few have computers for the children to play with. Music lovers can listen to recordings of their favorite musicians in music libraries. Some libraries have painting and sculpture exhibits, and most libraries offer special services for blind people, such as books in Braille, "talking" books, and Kurzweil Reading Machines.

     Libraries provide entertainment as well as information. Novels and short stories from a library's fiction collection are a good source of enjoyable reading practice. Public libraries often sponsor lectures on topics of interest to members of the community, and a few even offer concerts and films. No matter what your interests are, you will find that a library can be a great place to enjoy yourself while you learn.

Vocabulary:

periodicals 期刊

audio-visual material 視聽材料

Reading comprehension:

  1. What is another name for a library?____

[A]  A bookstore.

[B]  The periodicals room.

[C]  A reference librarian.

[D]  The information place.

  2. In the reference room of the library you can find ____.

[A]  the fiction collection

[B]  newspapers and magazines

[C]  university catalogs

[D]  materials for young readers

  3. Which of the following is NOT an example of a library service?____

[A]  Used cars.

[B]  Art exhibits.

[C]  Children's storytellers.

[D]  Kurzweil Reading Machines.

 4. "A library can be a great place to enjoy yourself while you learn." This means you can ____in a library.

[A]  talk and laugh as much as you want

[B]  find entertainment and information

[C]  play with computers

[D]  have a lot of rooms to work in

  5. What is the main idea of the whole text? Choose the BEST answer.____

[A]  There are many kinds of libraries.

[B]  A library is a place where books are stored.

[C]  Libraries provide entertainment.

[D]  Libraries offer many different services.

Key: 1-5 DCABD

Background information：

據(jù)媒體報道，中國人年均讀書0.7本，與韓國的人均7本，日本的40本，俄羅斯的55本相比，中國人的閱讀量少得可憐。

在這個世界上有兩個國家的人最愛讀書，一個是以色列，另一個是匈牙利。以色列人均每年讀書64本，而以色列的猶太人更甚，占全國人口80%以上的猶太人人均每年讀書達68本之多。

猶太人有個習俗，當孩子出生時，母親就會翻開《圣經》，滴上一點蜂蜜，讓小孩去舔《圣經》上的蜂蜜，通過這一舔，讓孩子對書產生美好的第一印象：書是甜的。當孩子稍稍董事時，幾乎每一個母親都會問這樣一個問題：“假如有一天你家里突然起火，你首先會搶救什么？”當孩子回答是錢或鉆石時，母親會嚴肅地告訴他：“這些都不重要，你首先應該搶救的是書！書里藏著的是智慧，這要比錢或鉆石貴重得多，而智慧是任何人都搶不走的。”因而猶太人是世界上唯一一個沒有文盲的民族，就連猶太人的乞丐也是離不開書的，即使在乞討，他們的身邊總會帶著每天必讀的書，更別說衣食無憂的人了。

在猶太人眼里，愛好讀書看報不僅是一種習慣，更是人所具有的一種美德。在以色列書刊價格非常昂貴，每本書的售價在20美元以上，每份報紙也在6美元以上，但普通以色列人對購買圖書和訂閱報刊都十分慷慨。這個僅有500萬人口的國家，持有借書證的就有100多萬人，是全世界人均擁有圖書最多的國家。

這里說一個最典型的例子，“安息日”是以色列猶太人一個非常重要的宗教活動日，在“安息日”所有的猶太人都要停止所有商業(yè)和娛樂活動，商店、飯店、娛樂等場所都得關門停業(yè)，公共汽車要停運，就連航空公司的班機都要停飛，人們只能待在家中“安息”祈禱。

但有一件事是特許的，那就是全國所有的書店都可以開門營業(yè)。而這一天光顧書店的人也最多，大家都在這里靜悄悄地讀書。

而另一個國家匈牙利，它的國土面積和人口都不足中國的百分之一，但卻擁有近兩萬家圖書館，平均每500人就有一座圖書館，而我國平均45.9萬人才擁有一所圖書館。匈牙利平均每人每年購書20本，比同地區(qū)的西歐人要多得多，而我國上世紀90年代統(tǒng)計，平均每人每年購書只有5本，現(xiàn)在還在下降。

匈牙利也是世界上讀書風氣最濃的國家，常年讀書的人數(shù)達500萬以上，占人口的1/4還多。知識就是力量，知識就是財富。一個崇尚讀書學習的國家，當然會得到豐厚的回報。以色列人口稀少，但人才濟濟。建國時間雖短，但諾貝爾獎獲得者就有8個，而諾貝爾獲獎者中猶太血統(tǒng)的人占18.5%。

以色列環(huán)境惡劣，國土大部分是沙漠，像巴勒斯坦等阿拉伯國家的糧食不夠吃，還要以石油換食品，而以色列卻把自己的國土變成了綠洲，而且生產的糧食不但自己吃不完，還源源不斷地出口到其他國家。他們憑著聰明和智慧，創(chuàng)造出驚人的物質和精神財富。

而匈牙利，諾貝爾獎得主就有14位，涉及物理、化學、醫(yī)學、經濟、文學、和平等眾多領域，若按人口比例計算，匈牙利是當之無愧的“諾獎大國”。他們的發(fā)明也非常多，可謂數(shù)不勝數(shù)，既有火柴、圓珠筆這樣的小物件，也有電話交換器、變壓器、汽化器、電視顯像管這樣的尖端產品。