One day in 1965，when I worked at View Ridge School in Seattle，a fourth­grade teacher approached me.She had a student who finished his work before all the others and needed a challenge.“Could he help in the library？” she asked.I said, “Send him along.”
Soon a slight，sandy­haired boy in jeans and a T­shirt appeared.“Do you have a job for me？” he asked.
I told him about the Dewey Decimal System(杜威十進分類法) for shelving books.He picked up the idea immediately.Then I showed him a stack(摞) of cards for long­overdue books that I was beginning to think had actually been returned but were misshelved with the wrong cards in them.He said，“Is it kind of a detective job？” I answered yes，and he became working.
He had found three books with wrong cards by the time his teacher opened the door and announced，“Time for break！”He argued for finishing the finding job；she made the case for fresh air.She won.
The next morning，he arrived early.“I want to finish these books，”he said.At the end of the day，when he asked to be a librarian on a regular basis，it was easy to say yes.He worked untiringly.
After a few weeks I found a note on my desk，inviting me to dinner at the boy’s home.At the end of a pleasant evening，his mother announced that the family would be moving to a neighbouring school district.Her son’s first concern，she said，was leaving the View Ridge library.“Who will find the lost books？” he asked.
When the time came，I said an unwilling good­bye.I missed him，but not for long.A few days later he came back and joyfully announced，“The librarian over there doesn’t let boys work in the library.My mother got me transferred back to View Ridge.My dad will drop me off on his way to work.And if he can’t，I’ll walk！”
I should have had an idea such focused determination would take that young man wherever he wanted to go.What I could not have guessed，however，was that he would become a genius of the Information Age：Bill Gates，tycoon(企業(yè)巨頭) of Microsoft and America’s richest man.
小題1:What was the author when the story happened?
A．A teacher.B．A librarian.
C．A detective.D．A student.
小題2:Why was the boy sent to the library by the fourth­grade teacher?
A．He failed to finish his work on time.
B．He challenged the teacher in the class.
C．He disturbed all the other students in the class.
D．He needed something to do to challenge himself.
小題3:What was the boy told to do on his first day in the library?
A．To rearrange the books according to the new system.
B．To put those overdue books back to the shelves.
C．To find out the books with wrong cards in them.
D．To put the cards back in the long­overdue books.
小題4:The boy got transferred back to View Ridge because ________.
A．he didn’t get along well with the librarian in the new school
B．he was not allowed to work in the new school’s library
C．he missed his old schoolmates and teachers
D．he had to walk a long way to go to school

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:C
小題4:B

小題1:　B
解析　細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)前三段老師把小比爾·蓋茨帶到作者那里被安排整理圖書的事可知，作者是一位圖書管理員。
小題2:D
解析　細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段第二句“She had a student who finished his work before all the others and needed a challenge.”可知，男孩比所有其他人提前完成了學習任務，老師帶他到圖書館找些事情挑戰(zhàn)自己。
小題3:C
解析　細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段第一句可知，是讓他從書架上找出書卡放錯的圖書。
小題4:B
解析　細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段“‘The librarian over there doesn’t let boys work in the library.My mother got me transferred back to View Ridge.’”可知，他因不能在新學校的圖書館工作而要求轉(zhuǎn)回原來的學校。
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A．build upB．make upC．clear up D．give up
小題20:
A．regret B．forgiveC．rightD．punish

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