C) Read the passage and fill the blanks with proper words (14分)

As we know, museums are buildings where many valuable and important objects are kept so mat people can go and see them. For example, art museums are places where people can learn about d__86____kinds of cultures. More and more popular "design museums" that are opening today, however, performquite a different role. Unlikemost museums, the design museum shows objects that are e__87____foundin bur daily life, such as fridges and washing machines.

The advantage of design museums is mat they are places where people feelf 88     with the exhibits. Being different from the art museum visitors, design museum visitors s   89   feel frightened or puzzled. This is partly because design museums clearly show how and why mass-products(批量产品) work and look as they do, and how design has i  90   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

Several new design museums have opened their doors in recent years. Each of these museums has tried to satisfy the public's growing i  91   in the fieldwith new ideas. London's DesignMuseum, forexample, shows a collection of mass-produced objects from electric typewriters to a group of Italian fish-tins. The choices open to design museum seem m   92   less strict than those to art museum, and visitors may also sense(感觉到) the humorous part of our society while walking around such exhibits as interesting and unusually attractive joys collected from our everyday life.

D)Answer the questions(12分)

In the busy city of New York, such an astonishing thing ever happened.

On a Friday night, a poor young artist' stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Many people slowed down their paces-and put some money into the hat of the young man.

The next day, the young artist came to the gate of the subway station, and put his hat on the ground gracefully. Different from the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it on me ground and put some stones on it. Before long, the young violinist ,was surrounded with people, who were all attracted by the words on that paper. It said, "Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Please come to claim it soon."

Seeing this, it caused a great excitement and people wondered what it could be. After about half an hour, a middle-aged man ran there in a hurry and rushed through the crowd to the violinistand grabbed his shoulders and said, "Yes, it's you. You did come here. I knew that you're an honest man and would certainly come here"

The young violinist asked calmly, “Are you Mr. George Sang?"

The man nodded. The violinist asked, "Did you lose something?"

"Lottery, it’s lottery," said the man.

The violinist took out a lottery ticket on which George Sang's name was seen. "Is it?" he asked.

George nodded promptly and seized the lottery ticket and kissed it, and then he danced with the violinist.

The story turned out to be this: George Sang is an office clerk. He bought a lottery ticket issued by a bank a few days ago. The awards opened yesterday and he won a prize of $500,000. So he felt very happy after work and felt the music was so wonderful, that he took out 50 dollars and put in the hat. However the lottery ticket was also thrown in. The violinist was a student at an ArtsCollege and had planned to attend advanced studies in Vienna. He had booked the ticket and! would fly that morning. However when he was cleaning up he found the lottery ticket. Thinking that the owner would return to look for it, he cancelled-the flight and came pack to where he was given the lottery ticket.

Later someone asked the violinist: "At that time you were in needed to pay the tuition fee and you had to play the violin in the subway station every day to make the money. Then why didn't you take the lottery ticket for yourself?"

The violinist said, "Although I don't have much money, I live happily; but if I lose honesty I won't be happy forever."

93. Where did the poor young artist play the violin?

He played his violin_______________________ in New York

94. What attracted the people, the music or the words on the paper?

________________________________ . 

95. What did George Sang put into the young artist's hat on Friday?

 He put_______________________ into the hat.

96. Why did the young artist cancel the flight to Vienna?

________________________________________                        

97. The young artist didn't need money, did he?

________, ____________.

98. What can we learn from the young artist?

_______________________________________

VII.Writing(共20分)

99.Write at least 60 words about the topic "On my Way(to)...".   （以“在我去……的路上”为题写一篇不少于60个词的短文，标点符号不占格）

（注意：短文中不得出现考生的姓名、校名及其它相关信息，否则不予评分。）

Use the following points as a reference.   ( 以下问题仅供参考)

  • What did you want to do on that day?
  • What happened on the way?
  • What is your impression?

(注意：短文中不得出现任何人名、校名及其它相关信息，否则不予评分。)