题目内容
阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项,并将答案写在答题卡上。
Museums have changed. They are no longer places that one “should” go but to enjoy.
At a science museum in Canada, you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless electricity passes through your body. At the Children's Museum in New York, you can play an African drum. There are no “Do Not Touch” sign in some other museums in the USA.
More and more museum directors have realized that people learn best when they can become part of what they are seeing. In many science museums, the visitors are encouraged to touch, listen, operate and experiment so as to discover scientific rules for themselves.
The purpose is not only to provide fun, but also help people feel at home in the world of science. If people don't understand science, they will be afraid of it; and if they are afraid of science, they will not make the best use of it.
One cause of all these changes is the increase in wealth and spare time. Another cause is the growing number of young people in the population. Many of them are college graduates. They see things in a new and different way. They want art that they can take part in. The same is true of science and history.
The old museums have been changing and the government is encouraging the building of new, modern museums. In the States and Canada, there are more than 6000 museums, almost twice as many as there were 25 years ago.
1.The directors of the museums have realized ________.
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A.the importance of scientific rules
B.people learn best when they look at something
C.visitors prefer to learn from museums
D.people are interested if they take part
2.Why has the growing population of young people caused the changes in museums?
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A.Because there are more young people.
B.Because they are stronger.
C.Because they have less spare time.
D.Because they are better educated.
3.Twenty-five years ago there were about ________ museums in the United States and Canada.
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4.Which of the following is not shown in Paragraph Two?
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A.People should go to a museum to learn something.
B.People are encouraged to take part in what they are seeing.
C.People are enjoying themselves fully in modern museums.
D.People will understand science better by trying to discover the scientific rules themselves.
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