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“Muum of the World” Travel Plan
Here’s the travel plan for some of the more unusual muums on our “Muum of the World” tour. I’ll nd you the full itinerary(行程)next week. The Muum of Bad Art(MOBA)(Boston, USA)shows what it describes as “art too bad to be ignored”. The muum hopes to bring the worst of art to the widest possible audience. As part of the visit, we’ll be shown some truly awful portraits, landscapes and sculptures.
The Devil’s Rope Muum(in Mclean, Texas)and The Kansas Barbed Wire Muum(in Lacros, Kansas)both claim to have the best barbed(有刺的)wire collections, telling the story of the wire’s role in the development of America. We’ll be visiting both of the.
The Washington Banana Muum(Auburn, Washington, USA)contains 4,000 objects related to the history of what the muum describes as “the world’s most perfect fruit.” During a guided tour around the muum, we’ll learn all sorts of interesting things, such as the fact that bananas were introduced to the USA in 1878 in the same exhibition as Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, and that banana is now the US’s number-one lling fruit.
The Hair Muum(Avanos, Turkey)is located in a cave in Cappadocia, in Central Anatolia. It contains 16,000 samples of people’s hair. You’ll be offered a chance to add your own hair to the collection. Later in the year, the muum manager lects 10 donors to attend a pottery workshop.
The Hair Muum(Avanos, Turkey)is located in a cave in Cappadocia, in Central Anatolia. It contains 16,000 samples of people’s hair. You’ll be offered a chance to add your own hair to the collection. Later in the year, the muum curator lects 10 donors to attend a pottery workshop. If you’re one of them, you’ll be invited to stay in his guest hou.
【语篇解读】这是一篇说明文。文章介绍了以世界各地的著名博物馆为看点的旅行路线,以及各博物馆的特色。
56. What do the four Muums have in common?
A. They are all located in the USA. B. They accept exhibits donated by visitors.
C. They exhibit the things with a long history. D. They show some odd things around the world.
【答案】D
【解析】细节理解题。根据文章倒数第二段可知“The Hair Muum”位于土耳其,其他三间博物馆位于美国,故A项错误。倒数第二段可知“You’ll be offered a chance to add your own hair to the collection.”只有The Hair Muum才接收游客将自己的头发加入到收藏品中,其他博物馆并无此要求,故B项错误。分析文章可知,全文并未提到各项藏品的时间,故C项错误。The Muum of Bad Art提到该博物馆展出的是“awful portraits, landscapes and sculptures.”可怕的肖像、景观和雕塑。The Washington Banana Muum展出的是最完美的水果,The Devil’s Rope Muum 展示的是绳索,The Hair Muum展示是人的头发,由此可判断四家博物馆展示的收藏品都很奇怪,D项符合题意,故选D。
57. Why was Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone mentioned in paragraph 4?
A. To explain the origin of bananas. B. To arou visitors’ interest in the muum.
C. To emphasize the importance of the exhibition. D. To compare the value of bananas and telephones.
【答案】B
【解析】推理判断题。第四段提到“the fact that bananas were introduced to the USA in 1878 in the same exhibition as Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone”,香蕉与1878年引入美国,与贝尔的电话在同一展览中,贝尔的电话是非常著名的发明,将香蕉与电话一起提到可以说明香蕉的重要性和其历史,从而引起游客的兴趣,B项符合题意,故选B。
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The key to getting people to work together effectively could be giving them the freedom to
choo their collaborators(合作者)and the comfort of working with established contacts, new rearch suggests.
In the study, David Melamed, an assistant professor of sociology at the Ohio State University and lead author of the study, and his co-authors found participants through the Amazon Mechanical Turk website — a rvice that allows rearchers to hire people from around the world for a variety of purpos. For this study, all participants were from the United States.
Tho who agreed to participate played online games in which each player started out with 1,000 monetary units that translated to $1 in real money they could pocket. If one player agreed to pay another player 50 monetary units, that cond person would actually acquire 100 units. Each of the 16-round games included about 25 participants, some of whom participated in multiple games. In all, 810 people participated in the rearch.
Some of the games included random networks, where certain people could interact. Othe
rs included clustered(群集的)networks, in which a small group had multiple connections — an arrangement that was designed to mimic(模拟)real life, where humans often run their lives in packs. And the networks were either static(静态的)or dynamic(动态的). In static networks, a player could interact only with the appointed partners. In dynamic networks, participants could cut their ties with another player and form new connections. Furthermore, some of the games included reputation information. Participants were labeled bad on their history of willingness to share money. The idea was to test whether tho known to collaborate were favored by other players bad on reputation — a factor shown in previous rearch to play a significant role in whether a person is likely to partner with another.
