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广西壮族自治区田阳高中2017-2018学年高二上学期英语期中考试试卷(含听力音频)
My parents and two older brothers arrived in Queens from Cuba in 1967, squeezing into a one-bedroom apartment that got even more cramped when I showed up two years later. Suspicious of everyone and unable to communicate in English, my parents weren't about to let their kids hang out in the streets. And since they both worked, we boys spent a lot of time at home.
The main public library on Merrick Boulevard was the first place I was allowed to visit on my own. I started going there when I was eight. Everything I needed was located on what seemed to me an endless single floor. Wandering around that building aimlessly on a Saturday afternoon offered a sense of freedom I'd never experienced before.
Once my father dropped me off, it didn't really matter what I did so long as I could explore. I find it interesting that people today say that libraries are no longer about books; they weren't really about books for me back in the 1970s, either. It was more about being around other people who looked like they were being productive-turning pages, making copies, patiently waiting for items. All this was attractive to me.
I felt a certain level of dignity and self-respect at the library. I didn't borrow books from the library despite spending practically every Saturday of my childhood there. I certainly went over hundreds and hundreds of them during my walks around the building- sports, politics and the solar system were my favorite sections.
But I felt no great need to bring books home. We had no room for books in our apartment anyway. I felt like a poor kid when I read books at home. I felt like everyone else when I read books at the library.
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