Question

    Art museums are places where people can learn about various cultures (文化). The increasingly popular “design museums” that are opening today, however, perform quite a different role. Unlike most art museums, the design museum shows objects that are easily found by the general public. These museums sometimes even place things like fridges and washing machines in the center of the hall.

    People have argued that design museums are often made use of as advertisements for new industrial technology. But their role is not simply a matter of sales—it is the honoring of excellently invented products. The difference between the window of a department store and the showcase in a design museum is that the first tries to sell you something, while the second tells you the success of a sale.

    One advantage of design museums is that they are places where people feel familiar with the exhibits. Unlike the aver age art museum visitors, design museum visitors seldom feel frightened or puzzled (困惑). This is partly because design museums clearly show how and why mass-produced products work and look as they do, and how design has improved the quality of our lives.  Art museum exhibits, on the other hand, would most probably fill visitors with a feeling that there is something beyond their understanding.

    In recent years, several new design museums have opened their doors. Each of these museums has tried to satisfy the public’s growing interest in the field with new ideas. London’s Design Museum, for example, shows a collection of mass-produced objects from Zippo lighters to electric type writers to a group of Italian fish-tins. The choices open to design museums seem far less strict than those to art museums, and visitors may also sense the humorous (幽默的) part of our society while walking around such exhibits as interesting and unusually attractive toys collected in our everyday life.

1. Showcases in design museums are different from store windows because they _______.

A. show more technologically advanced products

B. help increase the sales of products

C. show why the products have sold well

D. attract more people than store windows do

2. The author believes that most design museum visitors _______.

A. do not admire mass-produced products

B. are puzzled with technological exhibits

C. dislike exhibits in art museums

D. know the exhibits very well

3. The choices open to design museums _______.

A. are not as strict as those to art museums

B. are not aimed to interest the public

C. may fail to bring some pleasure to visitors

D. often contain precious exhibits

4. The best title for this passage is

A. The forms of design museums

B. The exhibits of design museums

C. The nature of design museums

D. The choices open to design museums

 

Answer 1

答案：C;D;A;C
解析：

1. 细节判断题。根据短文第二节中“The difference between the window of a department store and the showcase in a design museum is that the first tries to tell you something, while the second tells you the success of  a sale.”的叙述，本题的选项为C项是一目了然的。 2. 细节归纳综合题。短文第三节通过对design museums 和 art museums的对比，提出了design museums的优点“One advantage of design museums is that they are places where people feel familiar with the exhibits.”其中feel familiar with…，即know very well，因此，本题的答案自然是D项。 3. 事实细节判断题。短文最后一节“The choices open to design museums seem far less strict than those to art museums,…”中，“less…than…”与“not as…as…”基本同义。故本题选项为A项。 4. 标题判断题。本短文四节通过与art museums的对比，着重叙述了design museums的方方面面，即design museums的性质特点（the nature of design museums此处，nature意为“性质、本质、类别”）。

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