63．How many questions are answered in this passage?

    A．2    B．3    C．4    D．5

  62．What do we know about TOEIC?

    A．It is a must for those who go to American universities．

    B．Those who apply for a job with companies have to take it．

    C．It is to test a person’s language skills in the workplace．

    D．It’s a test designed for students to graduate from univeristies．

  61．The purpose of the passage is                ．

    A．to ask some questions on entering American universities

    B．to introduce readers the TOEIC

    C．to attract more people to click the websites

    D．to help do with some puzzles on entering American colleges

60．From the passage，we can learn that the museum               ．

    A．helps earn much money for its collections of art

    B．is called Fenway Court by the visitors

    C．was opened to the public on January 1st，1903

    D．is still affected by Isabella Gardner in management now

B

We answer some questions this week in our series on getting into an American college or university．

The first question has to do with our recent discussion of English language tests．Vo Ngoc Toan from Vietnam would like to know about the TOEIC，which is designed to men―sure skills in English as spoken in the workplace．People may be required to take it if they apply for jobs with companies or other employers．But TOEIC scores aren’t used for college admission in the United States．

The Educational Testing Service administrates the TOEIC．It says the test measures the     language skills of people working in an international environment．But，American colleges and  universities accept scores from the TOEFL and often the IELTS．If yoU missed our report on  these tests．you can find it at our website www．unsv．com．

Tahir Mahmood from Pakistan asks how to improve his English before taking these kinds of tests．Well，you can start by looking for ways to use English as much as you can．Watch American movies and TV shows and read books in English．Look for English speakers to talk to．

    The Internet has many free materials for English t learners．Visitors to www．unsv．com，for example，can read, listen and watch programs on many，different subjects。The US。Department  of Education recently launched a flee website designed to help immigrants learn English．The site is called USA Learns at usalearns．org，like chinadaily．com．cn in China．Next，a question from Turkey：Hasan Eker asks about。getting a postdoctoral(博士后的) position in the United States．This is work generally done by a person who recently earned a PhD．The National Postdoctoral Association in Washington has information about international postdocs on its website nationalpostdoc.org．

And，finally，we have questions from Iran，Afghanistan and Indonesia about how to pay for an education through jobs．There’re rules that restrict the kinds of jobs that foreign students can have while studying。in the United States．

 59．Which statement is NOT true according to the text?      

    A．Isabella-and Jack were classmates when studying in Paris．

    B．The museums at that time was not comfortable。

    C．Isabella opened the museum about five years after Jack’s death．

    D．Great as the museum was，visitors had to wait and pay to enter．

 58．In order to achieve her dream of owning an arts museum，Mrs Gardner       ．

    A．raised money from her friends and relatives

    B．sold out all her land and houses

    C．held special musical performances for money

    D．watched over the process of building the museum

 57．By saying“the greatest need in her country was art”in Paragraph 4．Mrs．Gardner

    meant that                    ．

    A．America was still a young developing country

    B．there were no museums in America at that time

    C．art fell far behind other fields of the American society

    D．Americans had no chance to enjoy the beautiful art

  56．The text is mainly about            ．

    A．how Isabella Gardner realized her dream of being an artist

    B．how Mr．and Mrs．Gardner added to their collections of art

    C．how Isabella’s museum was opened

    D．Isabella Stewart Gardner and her museum

After her husband’s death in 1 898．Isabella knew she had no time to lose in building her museum．She bought land，hired a building designer，and supervised(监督)every detail of her museum’s construction．

Mrs．Gardner opened her museum on January 1，1 903，which was then called Fenway  Court．She invited her friends that night for a special musical performance．The next month，she opened the museum to the public．At first，visits were limited to twenty days out of the  year．Visitors paid one dollar to enter．

Isabella Stewart Gardner died in 1 924 in Boston。In her will，she left the museum a million dollars and a series of requirements about how it should be managed, one that the permanent collection cannot be changed．

Isabella Stewart was born in New York City in 1 840．Her father made a great deal of money in the trade．During school，her parents took her to Italy to explore the country’s many cultural treasures．   

One of the private art collections Isabella visited in Milan had a deep influence on her．She wrote to her friends about her dream of owning a house one day with an art collection like the one she had seen in Italy．

In Paris，Isabella became close friends with one of her classmates，Julia Gardner，whose family was from Boston．Julia would later introduce Isabella to her brother，Jack．In 1 860，Isabella Stewart married Jack Gardner．

The couple had too much art to fit inside their home．So they decided to start planning a museum．Mrs．Gardner didn’t like the cold and empty．spaces of many museums during her time．She wanted a warm museum filled with light．She once said that she decided years ago that the greatest need in her country was art．America was a young country developing quickly in other areas．But the country needed more chances for people to See beautiful examples of art．