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Adopt-A-Book at Leeds University Library Is there a book that means a lot to you？ A book that has encouraged you？ A book that is of great value in the history of a subject you care about？ A book with some personal importance to you？ A work by Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Tolkien-or something only you would think of？ If there is, there may well be a copy in Leeds University Library ' s Special Collections, and from as little as￡ 25 you can Adopt-A-Book at Leeds. We will place a bookplate in the book re-cording your support for the Library. You can also adopt a book as a gift for someone else-per-haps to celebrate a special event, like a binhday or wedding.
Please help us to protect our rare (珍稀的) books and keep them safe for present and future users. Our copies of many of the most important works ever printed are kept in safe conditions and the collections are well known worldwide. They are consulted(参阅) by thousands of students and researchers visiting from all over the world, and you may have worked with the valuable works yourself during your studies. When you adopt a healthy book, you help us to revive(使复苏) an-other that ' s not so fit !
65. The writer uses questions at the beginning __________ .
[ A] to show the value of works by Shakespeare, Newton and Tolkien
[ B] to show the popularity of the library with students and teachers
[C] to draw readers ' attention to the low price for adopting a book
[D] to draw readers' attention to the Adopt-A-Book programme

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Millions of Americans survive(生存)in low-paying jobs. The Working Poor(319 pages) , by David Shipler, a Pulitzer-winning former reporter, shows just how barely they get by. In his tour around the world of low-paying jobs, Shipler describes a kind of domino model of a downward cycle. " Poor housing can worsen a child ' s illness, which leads to a call for a doctor, which results in a medical bill that cannot be paid, which ruins a credit record, which raises the in- terest rate on an auto loan(货款) , which results in the buying of a used car, which causes a mother to be late for work, which limits her pay raise and earning ability, which keeps her to poor hous-ing, which worsens the illness, and so on. "
What Shipler aims to do in the book is to produce a picture of all of those dominoes at once, the problems that keep the working poor on the edge of household disaster(灾难). As the condi-
tions for the lowest-paid workers keep worsening, he writes, " the low-paid employees have been
testing the American belief in hard work. "
To those who don ' t quite make it from paycheck to paycheck, convenience stores in poor neighborhoods lend money at interest rates of about 20% for a two-week loan. If that can ' t be
repaid, it' s gladly rolled over-for another 20% . In the space of a few months, he or she owes
twice as much in interest as he borrowed.
Shipler doesn ' t place all the blame on society. The people he meets often lack the soft skills that employers require, like showing up on time, following directions, even knowing how to comb their hair. To be sure, they need better schools and medical care, but they also need to know better than to use their hard-earned checks to get drunk and disorderly, or go in for ill-advised sex and foolish spending.
64. The main purpose of this text is to _______ .
[ A] show how the poor can improve their living conditions
[ B ] discuss the reasons why many Americans are poor
[ C ] introduce David Shipler ' s book about the poor
[ D] describe how a reponer has become a writer