阅读模拟 121 · 图书馆创客空间
划词查词是会员功能；查词面板（右上角按钮，或快捷键 /）不限次数，任何单词都能查。
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试卷内划词查词为会员功能 · 右上角查词面板不限
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The reading room on the first floor of the central library in Inverness still whispers; the ground floor now hums. In what was once a newspaper archive, residents queue for 3-D printers, borrow sewing machines and record podcasts in a soundproofed booth. The booths are booked a week ahead, and a board by the door lists the evening's short classes, from coding for beginners to how to hem trousers. Across the network, the central branch alone now lends out about sixty pieces of equipment a month, most of it free with a standard library card.
The logic, librarians explain, is defensive in the best sense. Visits had been drifting down for a decade as search engines answered the questions people once asked at the desk. Rather than mourn, the library asked what it uniquely offers: space, trust and staff who help strangers with complicated things. Membership among eighteen-to-thirty-year-olds, which had slumped, has recovered by about a third since the makerspace opened — and the borrowers, it turns out, also borrow books.
Traditionalists are not persuaded. Grinders drown out readers, and every broken nozzle is money not spent on books. A library that chases every fashion, they warn, will forget what it was for. Letters to the local paper recall the childhood magic of the quiet floor with real feeling.
The head librarian's answer is arithmetic rather than rhetoric. He borrowing of books never actually fell — the new floors added visitors without subtracting old ones. A quiet library was never the point — a useful one was. The whispering upstairs continues, now funded by the humming below.
Which statement best sums up the passage about Inverness?
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What does the passage about Inverness say about the lending of equipment?
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In the passage about Inverness, why do some critics question the makerspace programme?
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In the Inverness passage, what is the author's attitude toward the makerspace programme?
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In the passage about Inverness, what does the author mean by "a quiet library was never the point — a useful one was"?
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