Unit 4 Earthquakes language points课时作业

第一节 阅读理解

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　　A second-grade education has not stopped garbage collector Jose form bringing the gift of reading to thousands of Colombian children.

　　Jose started rescuing books from the trash almost 20 years ago. He was driving a garbage truck at night through the country's wealthier neighborhoods. The discarded reading material slowly piled up, and now the ground floor of his small house is a makeshift community library stacked from floor to ceiling with some 20,000 books. They range from chemistry textbooks to children's classics.

　　He says books are luxuries for boys and girls in low-income neighborhoods such as his, with new reading material at bookstores too expensive. There are 19 public libraries in Bogota, a city of 8.5 million people,.But they tend to be located far away from poorer areas."This should be in all neighborhoods, on each corner of every neighborhood, in all the towns, in all departments, and all the rural areas," says Joes. "Books are our salvation and that is what Colombia needs."

　　The 53-year-old Jose has a love of reading he attributes to his mother.She always read to him even though she was too poor to keep him in school."She used to read me stories every night," said Jose.

　　He has traveled to book fairs in Mexico and Chile to share his experience of starting a library with thrown-away reading material. "To me, books are the greatest invention and the best thing that can happen to a human being."

　　While Jose still examine the rubbish for additions to his library, his fame as Colombia's "Lord of the Books" has also brought him thousands of donated books. He has sent many to other libraries around the country. That is because he doesn't have room for them all.

　　He says he doesn't reject technology that allows books to be read digitally. But he prefers to read the printed word on paper.

"There's nothing more beautiful than having a book in your pocket, in your bag or inside your car," he says.