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Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
"Someday," Andy Warhol once mused, "all department stores will become museums, and all museums will become department stores." If this has not happened literally, it has practically. Look at the recent debut of a shop-within-a-shop at the SoHo branch of the MoMA Design Store: the first North American Muji outlet. A consumer-goods chain with 280 stores in Japan, Muji has managed to stake out space in something so presumably untouchable as a museum design boutique partly because the 270 or so objects for sale in the SoHo store are "appealing, useful and essential" items for the "design-savvy consumer." These include office supplies and storage pieces, but also items like a very clever set of $42 cardboard speakers. The Muji style is sleek, clean, unfussy and, at least by some standards, affordable.
The name Muji is a shortening of Mujirushi Ryohin, which translates to "no-brand goods." Emphasizing quality design, sensible use of materials and utilitarian practicality, Muji uses the slogan "Lower Priced for a Reason." While the stereotype of the logo- obsessed Japanese consumer lingers, unadorned Muji has thrived. In fact, from the original line of 40 Muji products, the company now offers more than 5,000 - everything from clothing to bicycles to furniture to packaged food.
Museum stores have lately become more savvy about selling consumer furniture made by the same famous designers exhibited in actual museum shows. The MoMA-Muji collaboration takes this idea to the next logical step. The brand's fine-design aura and exotic rarity are good for the shop - but the shop has an aura of its own, one that gives Muji goods a bit more sparkle than they might have if they were in an ordinary store.
26. The main purpose of author to write this passage is:
A) To introduce the museum like Muji company.
B) To forecast what a department store will become.
C) To promote the successful experience of Muji company.
D) To tell the readers how a department store becomes prosperous.
27. What did Andy Warhol mean by saying all department stores will become museums, and all museums will become department stores (Line 1, Para. 1) ?
A) There will be no department store in the future.
B) Department stores are becoming more and more like museums with the goods savvy-designed while museums are be coming more and more like department stores with fussy items.
C) All department stores will become museum.
D) All museums will be replaced by department stores in the future.
28. What dose savvy (Line 1, Para. 3) mean in this passage?
A) Wit B) Sensible
C) Cheap D) Stupid
29. The meaning of "While the stereotype of the logo-obsessed Japanese consumer lingers, unadorned Muji has thrived." (Line 4, Para. 2) is
A) Japanese consumers believe in the logo of Muji and that's why Muji has become flourished.
B) Japanese consumers always linger so Muji becomes thrive.
C) Muji stores are so unadorned that Japanese consumers can only linger.
D) Muji obsesses Japanese consumers by its logo in order to make them linger.
30. What is NOT correct according to this passage?
A) Reasonable price is a style of Muji, at least by some standards.
B) Now you can find most of the everyday stuffs in Muji stores.
C) In Muji stores, furniture designed by famous designers is now available.
D) Muji can thrive only because it has a fine-design aura.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors（流星）but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through, and this is essential for plants to make the food which we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment endurable. Various kinds of rays come through the air from outer space, but enormous quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage.
Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. The unit of radiation is called "rem". Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1 rem without being damaged; the figure of 60 rems has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage - a person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will no be discovered until the birth of deformed children or even grandchildren.
Missions of the Apollo flights have had to cross belts of high amount of rems. So far, no dangerous amounts of radiation have been reported, but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere, working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far.
31. According to the first paragraph, the atmosphere is essential to man in that _______.
A) it protects him against the harmful rays from space
B) it provides sufficient light for plant growth
C) it supplies the heat necessary for human survival
D) it screens off the falling meteors
32. We know from the passage that _______.
A) exposure to even tiny amounts of radiation is fatal
B) the effect of exposure to radiation is slow in coming
C) radiation is avoidable in space exploration
D) astronauts in spacesuits needn't worry about radiation damage
33. The harm radiation has done to the Apollo crew members _______.
A) is significant B) seems overestimated
C) is enormous D) remains unknown
34. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
A) the Apollo mission was very successful
B) protection from space radiation is no easy job
C) astronauts will have deformed children or grandchildren
D) radiation is not a threat to well-protected space explorers
35. The best title for this passage would be _______.
A) The Atmosphere and Our Environment
B) Research on Radiation
C) Effects of Space Radiation
D) Importance of Protection Against Radiation
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
It has been thought and said that Africans are born with musical talent. Because music is so important in the lives of many Africans and because so much music is performed in Africa, we are inclined to think that all Africans are musicians.
The impression is strengthened when we look at ourselves and find that we have become largely a society of musical spectators（旁观）. Music is important to us, but most of us can be considered consumers rather than producers of music. We have records, television, concerts, and radio to fulfill many of our musical needs.
In most situations where music is performed in our culture it is not difficult to distinguish the audience from the performers, but such is often not the case in Africa. Alban Ayipaga, a Kasena semiprofessional musician from northern Ghana, says that when his flute（长笛）and drum ensemble（歌舞团）is performing. "Anybody can take part". This is true, but Kasena musicians recognize that not all people are equally capable of taking part in the music. Some can sing along with the drummers, but relatively few can drum and even fewer can play the flute along with the ensemble. It is fairly common in Africa for there to be an ensemble of expert musicians surrounded by others who join in by clapping, singing, or somehow adding to the totality of musical sound. Performing nucleus and the additional performers, active spectators, and passive spectators may be difficult to draw from our point of view.
36. The difference between us and Africans, as far as music is concerned, is that _______
A) most of us are consumers while most of them are producers of music
B) we are musical performers and they are semiprofessional musicians
C) most of us are passive spectators while they are active spectators
D) we are the audience and they are the additional performers
37. The word "such" (Para. 3, Line 2) refers to the fact that _______
A) music is perforated with the participation of the audience
B) music is performed without the participation of the audience
C) people tend to distinguish the audience from the performers
D) people have records, television sets and radio to fulfill their musical needs
38. The author of the passage implies that _______
A) all Africans are musical and therefore much music is performed in Africa
B) nor all Africans are born with musical talent although music is important in their lives
C) most Africans are capable of joining in the by playing musical instruments
D) most Africans perform as well as professional musicians
39. The word "nucleus" (Para. 3, Line 9) probably refers to _______
A) musicians famous in Africa
B) musicians at the outer circle.
C) musicians acting as the core in a performance
D) active participants in a musical performance
40. The best title for this passage would be _______
A) The Importance of Music to African People
B) Differences Between African Music and Music of Other Countries
C) The Relationship between Musicians and Their Audience
D) A Characteristic Feature of African Musical Performances
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