[Đáp án IELTS Reading] Public Libraries (Giải thích chi tiết)

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Public Libraries

A. The word public comes from a Latin word, publicus, meaning people. A public library is for all the people in a community to use. It charges no fee for its services. The public library will have available, within the limits of its budget, a wide variety of books and other materials. These books or other materials may be borrowed, or taken out for a specific time, by anyone in the community. The library loans its materials.

B. Public libraries are usually tax-supported. There are a few that are instead supported from money that has been donated. And there are some that receive port of their money from taxes and part from gifts.

C. Few public libraries are exactly alike. Not only are the shapes and sizes of the building different, but also are the number of books and other materials in each. Your nearest library may be like the Los Angeles Public Library, which has over 4,538,458 books and bound periodicals (magazines and journals( in its collection. Or it may be like the Cherokee County Public Library, which has only about 3,800 books in its collection.

D. Libraries vary in other ways, too, for instance, in the number of hours (or days) they are open or in the number of people who work there. Most public libraries, however, arrange their books and other materials in similar ways. They divide their collection into two basic age groups, children and adult. Adult books are in one place; children’s books are in another. The books are further separated by the kind of books. Storybooks – works of fiction – are separated from information, or fact books – nonfiction.

E. People often want to refer to, that is, look something up in a certain basic information book. Thus reference books, which are rarely read cover to cover, are put in a special place in the library, a reference section of perhaps a reference room. Reference books are never to be taken out from the library building.

F. Each library decides for itself how it should further arrange its books and other materials. In a large city library, certain nonfiction materials may be put into a special area pr separate room. For instance, there may be a separate room just for all the materials a library has on music. In another large city, the music materials might not be kept so separate. It would depend on what the people in that city had indicated they found useful.

G. A library’s holdings are everything the library has in its collection. These holdings almost always reflect the community’s special interest. Suppose, for example, there was a town where Morgan horses were widely raised and trained. That town’s library would most likely have a great deal of material about Morgan horses. Since the people who were interested in Morgan horses would probably be less interested in other breeds of horses, the library might have only a small amount of material on Mustangs or Appaloosas.

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Question 1-7: TRUE / FALSE / NOT GIVEN

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage?

TRUE: if the statement agrees with the information.
FALSE: if the statement contradicts the information.
NOT GIVEN: if there is no information on this.

Public libraries are free for everyone living in the community to use.
Most public libraries are funded exclusively by private donations.
The Los Angeles Public Library has the largest collection of books in the United States.
In most public libraries, books are organized based on the age of the readers.
Reference books can be borrowed for a short period of time if requested.
The way a library organizes its special collections often depends on the preferences of the local people.
A library in a town known for horse breeding will definitely have more books on Mustangs than Morgan horses.

Question 9-14: SENTENCE COMPLETION (ONE WORD ONLY)

Complete the sentences below. Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.

The term “public” has its origins in a (8) ……………….. word meaning “people”.
Some libraries are funded by (9) ……………….. while others rely on tax money or a combination of both.
Libraries can differ significantly in terms of their physical (10) ……………….. and the size of their collections.
Fiction books, also known as (11) ……………….., are kept separately from nonfiction books.
Because (12) ……………….. books are mainly used for looking up specific information, they must remain inside the library building.
In large cities, certain materials, such as those related to (13) ……………….., may be placed in a dedicated room.
A library’s (14) ……………….. usually represent the specific interests of the local community.

Đáp án kèm phân tích

Questions 1-7: TRUE / FALSE / NOT GIVEN

1. Public libraries are free for everyone living in the community to use.

Đáp án: TRUE
Giải thích: Đoạn A khẳng định thư viện công cộng dành cho tất cả mọi người trong cộng đồng và không thu phí dịch vụ (“It charges no fee for its services”).

2. Most public libraries are funded exclusively by private donations.

Đáp án: FALSE
Giải thích: Đoạn B cho biết phần lớn thư viện công cộng được hỗ trợ bởi tiền thuế (“usually tax-supported”), chỉ một số ít mới dựa hoàn toàn vào tiền quyên góp.

3. The Los Angeles Public Library has the largest collection of books in the United States.

Đáp án: NOT GIVEN
Giải thích: Đoạn C đưa ra con số hơn 4,5 triệu cuốn sách của thư viện Los Angeles như một ví dụ về quy mô lớn, nhưng không hề so sánh hay khẳng định đây là thư viện lớn nhất nước Mỹ.

4. In most public libraries, books are organized based on the age of the readers.

Đáp án: TRUE
Giải thích: Đoạn D nêu rõ hầu hết các thư viện chia bộ sưu tập thành hai nhóm tuổi cơ bản: trẻ em và người lớn (“divide their collection into two basic age groups, children and adult”).

5. Reference books can be borrowed for a short period of time if requested.

Đáp án: FALSE
Giải thích: Đoạn E nhấn mạnh sách tham khảo không bao giờ được phép mang ra khỏi tòa nhà thư viện (“Reference books are never to be taken out from the library building”).

6. The way a library organizes its special collections often depends on the preferences of the local people.

Đáp án: TRUE
Giải thích: Đoạn F giải thích việc sắp xếp các khu vực riêng biệt phụ thuộc vào những gì người dân trong thành phố đó cho là hữu ích (“depend on what the people in that city had indicated they found useful”).

7. A library in a town known for horse breeding will definitely have more books on Mustangs than Morgan horses.

Đáp án: FALSE
Giải thích: Đoạn G lấy ví dụ nếu một thị trấn nuôi ngựa Morgan, thư viện sẽ có rất nhiều tài liệu về loài này và chỉ có một lượng nhỏ tài liệu về các loài khác như Mustang.