This 7,000-square-foot museum aims to entertain and educate children up to age 9.In its Global City exhibit, people can go shopping for groceries, order lunch at a diner, pretend that they're doctors or construction workers, and more.In other fun exhibits, they learn about Austin's history, explore the world of water, and experience life on a large Texas farm.
Open time:From Tuesday to Saturday, 10∶00 a.m.~5∶00 p.m.
On Sunday, 12∶00 a.m.~5∶00 p.m.
Address:201 Colorado St, Austin, Texas 78701
Phone:512-4722499
Brooklyn Children's Museum
Founded in 1899, it is the world's oldest children's museum, featuring interactive exhibits, workshops, and special events.The Mystery of Things teaches children about cultural and scientific objects and Music Mix welcomes young virtuosos(名家).
Open time:From Wednesday to Friday, 2∶00 p.m.~5∶00 p.m.
On Saturday and Sunday, 10∶00 a.m.~5∶00 p.m.
Address:145 Brooklyn Ave, Brooklyn, New York 1213
Phone:718-7354400
Children's Discovery Museum
This museum's hand-on exhibits explore the relationships between the natural and the created worlds, and among people of different cultures and times.Exhibits include Streets, a 5/8-scale copy of an actual city, with streets lights, and waterworks, which shows how pumps can move water through a reservoir system.
Open time:From Monday to Saturday, 10∶00 a.m.~5∶00 p.m.
On Sunday, from noon.Closed on holidays.
Address:180 Woz Way, Guadalupe River Park, San Jose, California 95110
Phone:408-2985437
Children's Museum of Indianapolis
This museum is the largest of its kind.Exhibits cover science, culture, space, history, and explorations.Among them are the Space Quest Planetarium(additional fee), the 33-foot-high Water Clock, the Playscape gallery for preschools, and the Dinosphere exhibit, along with hand-on science exhibits.
The largest gallery, the Center for Exploration, is designed for ages 12 and up.
Open time:From Tuesday to Sunday, 10∶00 a.m.~5∶00 p.m.
Closed on Thanksgiving Day and December 25.
Address:3000 N Meridian St, Indianapolis, Indiana 46208
Phone:317-3343322
(1)
Suppose that December 25 is Tuesday, which of the following museums can you visit?
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A.
Brooklyn Children's Museum.
B.
Austin Children's Museum.
C.
Children's Discovery Museum.
D.
Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
(2)
If you want to see how pumps can move water through a reservoir system, you should visit the museum in ________.
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A.
Texas
B.
New York
C.
Indiana
D.
California
(3)
After entering the museum you need to pay an additional fee to see ________.
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A.
the Center for Exploration
B.
Waterworks
C.
the Global City exhibit
D.
the Space Quest Planetarium
(4)
Which of the following is not exhibited in Children's Museum of Indianapolis?
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A.
culture
B.
special events
C.
explorations
D.
history
(5)
The purpose of writing this passage is to ________.
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A.
introduce some museums and encourage parents to visit them with their children
B.
compare some museums and decide which one is the best
Not even Dan Brown and his Da Vinci code-breakers(密码破译者)dared deal with the mystery of Mona Lisa’s smile.But Nicu Sebe, a computer expert at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, did.He used ‘emotion recognition’ software to process the famous painting and found Mona Lisa happy(83 per cent)and slightly disgusted(厌烦的)(9 per cent).
Faces show emotions.Psychology, computer science, and engineering researchers are joining forces to teach machines to read expressions.If they succeed, your computer may one day“read”your mood.Machines equipped with emotional skills could also be used in teaching, gaming, mind-reading, etc.
“Mind Reader”, a system developed by Rosalind Picard at MIT(the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)in the US, uses input from a video camera to do real-time analysis of facial expressions.It reports on whether you seem“interested” or“agreeable”or if you’re“confused”.The system can help people recognize others’ emotions.Picard says this means we could teach a machine to be as sensitive as a human.In fact, a machine can be even smarter than people since it can tell if a person is lying or just“performing”by analyzing one’s facial movements.
Jeffrey Cohn, a psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh, uses the Facial Action Coding System to recognize human emotions.The system sorts more than 40 action units(AUS)of the face to tell people’s real emotions.He studied a videotape of a criminal who said to be sad about the murder of several family members and tried to pin the blame on someone else.But Cohn saw no real sadness in the woman’s face.
Sadness is a group of AUS that is difficult to do at the same time.You have to pull down the corners of your lips while bringing your eyebrows together and raising them.What the woman did was raise her cheeks to make a lip curl(撇嘴).Her brows stayed smooth.
(1)
The best title of this passage is“________”.
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A.
The emotion on your face
B.
Look at your face
C.
Your face tells a story
D.
Telling a lie
(2)
The missing sentence“This means, even though your mouth lies, your face doesn’t, and the machine will know it all.”should be put at the end of ________.
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A.
Paragraph 2
B.
Paragraph 3
C.
Paragraph 4
D.
Paragraph 5
(3)
How many facial emotion analyses are mentioned in this passage?