单选题A recent spate of art thefts at a major museum has led to a drastic increase in the insurance premiums that the museum must pay to insure its collection. Many art fans are concerned that the museum, which traditionally has charged no entrance fee, will

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As we know, museums are buildings where many valuable and important objects are kept so that people can go and see them. For examples, art museums are places where people can learn about (56) v ______ cultures. More and more popular "design museums" that are opening today, however, perform quite a different role. (57) U ______ most art museums, the design museum shows objects that are easily found in our daily life, such as fridges and washing machines.
The (58) ______ (优势) of design museums is that they are places where people feel familiar with the exhibits. Being different from the art museum visitors, design museums visitors (59) s ______ feel frightened or puzzled. This is partly because design museums clearly show how and why mass-products work and look as they do, and how design has (60) i ______ the quality of our lives. Art museum exhibits, on the other hand, would most probably fill visitors with a feeling that there is something (61) b ______ their understanding.
Several new design museums have opened their doors in (62)______ years. Each of these museums has tried to satisfy the public′s growing interest in the field with new (63) i ______ London′s Design Museum, for example, shows a collection of mass-produced objects from electric typewriters to a group of Italian fish-tins. The choices open to design museums seem (64) f______ less strict than those to art museums, and visitors may also sense the humorous part of our society while walking around such exhibits as interesting and unusually attractive toys (65) ______(收集) from our everyday life.
第（63）题答案

What is NOT mentioned about the awards?

A.They will be judged by more than one person
B.Money will be given away to the winners
C.Winners will get a chance to go away next summer
D.The winning pieces will be presented in an art museum

The museum contains several____works of Renaissance art, including two paintings by Raphael, one by Durer, one by Titian, and an early sketch by Tintoretto.

A.useless
B.priceless
C.valueless
D.worthless

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Changes in Museums
Museums have changed.They are no longer places that one"should"visit;they are places to enjoy and learn.
At a science museum in Ontario,Canada,you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless electricity passes through your body.At the Metropolitan（大城市的）Museum of Art in New York City , you can look at the seventeenth century instruments while listening to their music.At New York's American Museum of Natural History recently,you can help make a bone-by- bone reproduction of the museum's dinosaur（恐 龙）,a beast that lived 200 million years ago.
More and more museum directors are realizing that people learn best when they can somehow become part of what they are seeing.In many science museums,for example,there are no guided tours.The visitor is encouraged to touch,listen,operate,and experiment so as to discover scientific principles for himself. The purpose is not only to provide fun but also to help people feel at home in the world of science.The theory is that people who do not understand science will probably fear it,and those who fear science will not use it to best advantage.
One cause of all these changes is the increase in wealth and leisure time.Another cause is the rising percentage of young people in the population.Many of these young people are college students or college graduates.Leon F.Twiggs,a young black professor of art once said,"They see things in a new and different way.They are not satisfied to stand and look at works of art;they want art they can participate（参加）in."The same is true of science and history.

New York's American Museum of Natural History is opened recently.
A:Right
B:Wrong
C:Not mentioned

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Changes in Museums
Museums have changed.They are no longer places that one"should"visit;they are places to enjoy and learn.
At a science museum in Ontario,Canada,you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless electricity passes through your body.At the Metropolitan（大城市的）Museum of Art in New York City , you can look at the seventeenth century instruments while listening to their music.At New York's American Museum of Natural History recently,you can help make a bone-by- bone reproduction of the museum's dinosaur（恐 龙）,a beast that lived 200 million years ago.
More and more museum directors are realizing that people learn best when they can somehow become part of what they are seeing.In many science museums,for example,there are no guided tours.The visitor is encouraged to touch,listen,operate,and experiment so as to discover scientific principles for himself. The purpose is not only to provide fun but also to help people feel at home in the world of science.The theory is that people who do not understand science will probably fear it,and those who fear science will not use it to best advantage.
One cause of all these changes is the increase in wealth and leisure time.Another cause is the rising percentage of young people in the population.Many of these young people are college students or college graduates.Leon F.Twiggs,a young black professor of art once said,"They see things in a new and different way.They are not satisfied to stand and look at works of art;they want art they can participate（参加）in."The same is true of science and history.

When visiting museums nowadays,people can take part in many activities.
A:Right
B:Wrong
C:Not mentioned

The elegant f 20m extension of Tate St Ives,a gallery that was overwhelmed by its own success when it opened in 1993,has won the&100,000 museum of the year award,the most lucrative museum prize in the world The artist Melanie Manchot,one of the judges,said it had been"a profound experience"to visit after the work,which she believes has transformed the gallery As soon as I walked into Tate St Ives I had an amazingly strong feeling that they're doing some thing innovative.Ive visited before,but now the whole building,the galleries,the views,all feel different-they have been given a new lease of life.The extension has not so much been an addition as a complete reimagining The St Ives gallery beat a strong shortlist,including the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull which was completely refurbished in time for Hull's term in 2017 as city of culture The other contenders were the Brooklands Museum in Weybridge,where the finishing straight of the world's first purpose-built motor-racing circuit was restored the Glasgow Womens Library-the only one in the UK dedicated to womens history-which has grown over 25 years from a shopfront with no funding to an award-winning resource in a listed building;and the Postal Museum in London,once a niche archive with 3,000 visitors a year,but now a purpose-built museum with a spectacular attraction in Mail Rail,the restored train that once carried post far below the capital's streets Tate St Ives reopened in October 2017.Visitors surged back in,and there were 11,000 visitors over the opening weekend alone.The project involve refurbishing the orginal galleries,and adding an extension by Jamie Fobert Architects and the environmental engineering company Max Fordham.The original museum opened in a town that had been famous for its artists,including Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.It was built on a spectacular but tight site,designed by the architectural practice Evans&Shalev directly overlooking the beach on the footprint of an old gasworks.In its first six months,there were 120,000 visitors;the gallery had planned for 50,000 visitors a year.Tate St Ives has since averaged 240,000 visitors annually swamping the gallery spaces,overwhelming the shop and other visitor facilities,and causing queues down the stairs for the rooftop cafe.The whole gallery had to be closed every time a new exhibition was hung The original proposal to extend produced a rash of"Stop the Tate"posters in windows throughout he town,and protests about everything from property prices being driven up by arty incomers to the loss of parking spaces After extensive public consultation,the architects'eventual solution was to double the gallery space by excavating into the hillside behind the original building--which drove up the cost to f 20m from the original estimate of 12m.
Which of the following is true about other contenders for the UK's Museum of the Year Award?

A.Brooklands Museum restores and preserves the bridge of motor racing
B.Glasgow Womens Library was previously only accessible to women
C.Postal Museum has grown from a small archive to a large mail rail museum
D.Postal Museum is dedicated to the preservation of restored trains and mails

Construction on a new wing at the Markunas Museum ____as soon as additional funding has been arranged.

A.has been resumed
B.to be resuming
C.was resumed
D.will resume

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Changes in Museums
Museums have changed.They are no longer places that one"should"visit;they are places to enjoy and learn.
At a science museum in Ontario,Canada,you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless electricity passes through your body.At the Metropolitan（大城市的）Museum of Art in New York City , you can look at the seventeenth century instruments while listening to their music.At New York's American Museum of Natural History recently,you can help make a bone-by- bone reproduction of the museum's dinosaur（恐 龙）,a beast that lived 200 million years ago.
More and more museum directors are realizing that people learn best when they can somehow become part of what they are seeing.In many science museums,for example,there are no guided tours.The visitor is encouraged to touch,listen,operate,and experiment so as to discover scientific principles for himself. The purpose is not only to provide fun but also to help people feel at home in the world of science.The theory is that people who do not understand science will probably fear it,and those who fear science will not use it to best advantage.
One cause of all these changes is the increase in wealth and leisure time.Another cause is the rising percentage of young people in the population.Many of these young people are college students or college graduates.Leon F.Twiggs,a young black professor of art once said,"They see things in a new and different way.They are not satisfied to stand and look at works of art;they want art they can participate（参加）in."The same is true of science and history.

In America today,all science museums are open to the public and free.
A:Right
B:Wrong
C:Not mentioned

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Changes in Museums
Museums have changed.They are no longer places that one"should"visit;they are places to enjoy and learn.
At a science museum in Ontario,Canada,you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless electricity passes through your body.At the Metropolitan（大城市的）Museum of Art in New York City , you can look at the seventeenth century instruments while listening to their music.At New York's American Museum of Natural History recently,you can help make a bone-by- bone reproduction of the museum's dinosaur（恐 龙）,a beast that lived 200 million years ago.
More and more museum directors are realizing that people learn best when they can somehow become part of what they are seeing.In many science museums,for example,there are no guided tours.The visitor is encouraged to touch,listen,operate,and experiment so as to discover scientific principles for himself. The purpose is not only to provide fun but also to help people feel at home in the world of science.The theory is that people who do not understand science will probably fear it,and those who fear science will not use it to best advantage.
One cause of all these changes is the increase in wealth and leisure time.Another cause is the rising percentage of young people in the population.Many of these young people are college students or college graduates.Leon F.Twiggs,a young black professor of art once said,"They see things in a new and different way.They are not satisfied to stand and look at works of art;they want art they can participate（参加）in."The same is true of science and history.

Young people who are well-educated like the art they can participate in.
A:Right
B:Wrong
C:Not mentioned

The main idea of the last paragraph is that( )

A.London still keeps buildings familiar to Dickens so as to commemorate him
B.many places in London offered inspirations to Dickens
C.a museum has been set up in honor of Dickens
D.for all the drastic changes，some places are still reminiscent of London in Dickens’s time