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Art museums are places where people can learn about various cultures(文化). The increasingly popular “design museums” that are opening today, however, perform quite a different role. Unlike most art museums, the design museum shows objects that are easily found by the general public. These museums sometimes even place things like fridges and washing machines in the center of the hall.

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 honoring 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 familiar with the exhibits. Unlike the average art museum visitors, design museum visitors seldom feel frightened or puzzled(困惑). This is partly because design museums clearly show how and why mass-produced products work and look as they do , and how design has improved 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 understanding.

In recent years, several new design museums have opened their doors. Each of these museums has tried to satisfy 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 strict than those to art museums, and visitors may also sense the humorous(幽默的) part of our society while walking around such exhibits as interesting and unusually attractive toys collected in our everyday life.

72. Showcases in design museums are different from store windows because they ______.

A. show more technologically advanced products

B. help increase the sales of products

C. show why the products have sold well

D. attract more people than store windows do

73. The author believes that most design museum visitors ______.

A. do not admire mass-produced products

B. are puzzled with technological exhibits

C. dislike exhibits in art museums

D. know the exhibits very well

74. The choices open to design museums ______.

A. are not as strict as those to art museums

B. are not aimed to interest the public

C. may fail to bring some pleasure to visitors

D. often contain precious exhibits

75. The best title for this passage is ______.

A. The forms of design museums

B. The exhibits of design museums

C. The nature of design museums

D. The choices open to design museums

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第二卷(共35分)

四、寫作(共兩節(jié)，滿分35分)

第一節(jié)：短文改錯(共10小題，每小題1分，滿分10分)

此題要求改正所給短文中的錯誤。對標(biāo)有題號的每一行作出判斷：如無錯誤，在該行右邊橫線上畫一個勾(√)；如有錯誤(每行只有一個錯誤)，則按下列情況改正：

此行多一個詞：把多余的詞用斜線( \ )劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。

此行缺一個詞：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號(∧)，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。

此行錯一個詞：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。

注意：原行沒有錯的不要改。

I still remember my middle school life in Tianjin yet. I was then 76. _____

in a school for students from Tibet. As we were all left home 77. _____

at early age, we met lots of problems in our daily life. We 78. _____

had to do the washing, cleaning and shopping by us. However, 79. ____

we seldom felt lonely or helplessly. We enjoyed our happy life. 80. ____

At weekends, we would play basketball, swimming in the pool 81. _____

or go for a picnic. We were living in a big family. We treat 82. _____

each other as brothers and sisters. If any one of us had any 83. _____

difficulty in our life and study, the other would help him out. 84. ____

It has been five years when we graduated, but those memories 85. _____

are as sweet as ever before.