2006年度成考英语内部资料—连载(六)

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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the unexpected books you pick up in that kind of collection: little-known eighteenth-century poets , or out-of-date geography books .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. According to the passage , is one of the necessary conditions to run a bookshop .
A. an educated shop-ownerB. a good position at a street corner
C. a regular journey out of the shopD. the force of large chain-stores

2. The author should not like to be back as a bookseller for life because .
A. he hated his job of selling booksB. selling books was only a part-time job
C. the books in the shop gave him a dislike D. he was unable to be honest about the books he sold

3. The books preferred by the author should be those .
A. stories making readers sleeplessB. valuable ones bought on sale
C. peculiar ones with great expectationD. geography ones from the eighteenth century

4. The author will only buy new books .
A. if he feels dull and tiredB. after he gives up his job as a bookseller
C. which are interesting but hard to borrow D. when he throws away old ones