7、Going on a road trip? The St．Louis
Arch，Statue of Liberty and Golden Gate Br_[dga are
great tourist sites．But if you prefer offbeat
destinations, check out the following roadside attractions．
World's
Largest Ball of Paint
Alexandria, Ind．
In 1977,
Michael Carmichael set out to create the biggest ball of paint anywhere．Starting with a base-ball as center,
he painted layer after layer of paint day after day, year after year．The ball weighs more than 1,300 pounds, with more than 20,000 coats
of paint, which is recognized by Guinness World Records．Visitors can paint the ball themselves and become part of history．
The
Museum of Dirt
Boston,
Mass．
The
museum is the idea of Glenn Johnson．Labeled （贴有标签的） glass bottles contain such
treasures as dirt from the Great Wall of China, as well as sand from a desert
in Saudi Arabia and Omaha Beach in France．Best of all,
the cost of seeing this museum is dirt cheap: It's free．
Mount
Horeb Mustard Museum
Mount
Horeb，Wis．
It's
heaven for hotdog lovers! This museum claims to have the world's largest
collection of prepared mustards （芥末）．Its more than 4,100 bottles of spices come from 60 nations,
including Turkey and China．Visitors learn the history
of mustard, from how it's made to how it's advertised and sold．The museum's creator, Barry Levenson, loves mustard so much, he even
puts it on ice cream!
Paper
House
Rockport,
Mass．
Swedish
immigrant （移民） Ellis
Stenman was much ahead of his time in 1922, when he started to build a two-room
house almost entirely out of newspaper．At the time,
people didn't give much — if any —thought to recycling paper．In fact,
"recycling" wasn't even a word yet．The house
is framed with wood, but the walls are made of 215 layers of newspaper．In all, he used about 100,000 newspapers．
1．The underlined word "offbeat" in the first
paragraph can be best replaced by______．
A．great
B．foreign
C．unusual
D．historical
2．If you want to add your own work to what you visit,
you may choose______ ．
A．World's Largest Ball of
Paint
B．The Museum of Dirt
C．Mount Horeb Mustard
Museum
D．Paper House
3．Which of the following is true of Barry Levenson
according to the text?
A．No spices but mustards can be found
in his museum．
B．He travels around the world to
collect mustards．
C．Mustard is advertised and sold in
his museum．
D．In a way, he shows much preference
for mustard．
4．What can be inferred from the text?
A．Michael must have the largest ball
in the world．
B．Glenn must have paid a visit to China．
C．Lots of hotdog lovers will travel to
Mount Horeb．
D．Ellis could be seen as a pioneer in his time．
5．According to the text, we know that
A．Michael will never stop painting the
large ball
B．there is no charge at the Museum of Dirt
C．Barry is the owner of the mustard
museum
D．Paper House was completely made of paper