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Unlike most young women her day, she was able to meet other well-educated people on different occasions.A. of B.on? C.for D.in
请选用所给的单词填空，注意有一个是多余的。每个单词只能用一次。
| A．dislike B．satisfy C．center D．familiar E．understanding F．role G．honoring H．frightened I．improved J．strict |
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 3 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 4 with the exhibits．Unlike the average art museum visitors, design museum visitors seldom feel 5 or puzzled．This is partly because design museums clearly show how and why mass-produced products work, and how design has 6 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 __7__．
In recent years, several new design museums have opened their doors．Each of these museums has tried to 8 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 typewriters to a group of Italian fish-tins．The choices open to design museums seem far less _9 than those to art museums．
After two classes, I started to recognize several of the faces in each class. There was always someone braver than the others who would introduce themselves and ask me questions about how I was liking Forks. I tried to be diplomatic, so mostly I just lied a lot to appear to be skilled at dealing with people. At least I never needed the map.
One girl sat next to me in both Trig and Spanish, and she walked with me to the cafeteria for lunch. She was tiny, several inches shorter than my five feet four inches, but her wildly curly dark hair made up a lot of the difference between our heights. I couldn't remember her name, so I smiled and nodded as she gossiped about teachers and classes. I didn't try to keep up.
We sat at the end of a full table with several of her friends, who she introduced to me. I forgot all their names as soon as she spoke them. They seemed impressed by her bravery in speaking to me. The boy from English, Eric, waved at me from across the room.
It was there, sitting in the lunchroom, trying to make conversation with seven curious strangers, that I first saw them.
They were sitting in the corner of the cafeteria, as far away from where I sat as possible in the long room. There were five of them. They weren't talking, and they weren't eating, though they each had a tray of untouched food in front of them. They weren't staring at me, unlike most of the other students, so it was safe to stare at them without fear of meeting an over interested pair of eyes. But it was none of these things that caught and held my attention.
I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all extremely, inhumanly beautiful. They were faces you never expected to see except perhaps on the airbrushed pages of a fashion magazine, or painted by an old master as the face of an angel. It was hard to decide who was the most beautiful -- maybe the perfect blond girl, or the bronze-haired boy.
1.What does the underlined word “diplomatic” mean?
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A．smooth |
B．clever |
C．honest |
D．delight |
2.From the passage, we can infer that _______________.
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A．“I” was really liking the new place. |
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B．“I” was not interested in what the girl said. |
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C．“I” had a bad memory, so it’s hard to remember names. |
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D．“I” was good at making friends. |
3. According to the last two paragraphs, why did “they” catch “my” attention?
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A．Because “they” weren’t talking. |
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B．Because “they” sat in the corner. |
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C．Because “they” didn’t eat the food. |
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D．Because “they” looked incredibly beautiful. |
4.According to the passage, which statement is NOT true?
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A．The girl walked with “me” was a little short. |
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B．“I” saw the five students for the first time. |
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C．Those students sitting in the corner had finished their food. |
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D．“I” probably wanted to know more about those five students. |