【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 are places where people can learn about various cultures. 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 salesit 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. This is partly because design museums clearly show how and why massproduced 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 massproduced objects from Zippo lighters to electric typewriters to a group of Italian fishtins. The choices open to design museums seem far less strict than those to art museums , and visitors may also sense the humorous part of our society while walking around such exhibits as interesting and unusually attractive toys collected in our everyday life . 1. 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 2. The author believes that most design museum visitors . A. do not admire massproduced products B. are puzzled with technological exhibits C. dislike exhibits in art museums D. know the exhibits very well 3. 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 4. 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 Unit 4 A garden of poems I. Speaking Task 1 Your ment! Directions: Read aloud a poem by a writer of your age and tell what it’s about. What does the writer try to tell you? Do you enjoy it? Why? Why not? You want to fly, But you can39。t. You just can39。t seem to get free. To let your wings spread. Just let them feel the breeze. All you have is earned, But yet your told you are spoiled And give in everything. I don39。t understand, What did I do to make you shield me? Did I not try at what you wanted. I thought it would please you, but it didn39。t. Why? What did I ever do to you? Let me free. Let me breath. Just let my wings spread And feel the breeze. Pleas..... Let go and grow on my own. If I need you I will go to you. I have to solve my own problems, you can39。t. You will not be here all my life。 So I ask one thing of you. Let my wings spread and let me fly. Task 2 A promising poet? Directions: First, use the words in the form to plete the passage and then work in groups to discuss the following questions 1. What made Wu Bin full marks in his Chinese writing in the NCEE? 2. Do a survey to see how many of your classmates are crazy about poems. If any, which do you they prefer, ancient or modern poems? Chinese or foreign poems? 3. Some people think teenagers should be encouraged to learn more about Chinese ancient famous poems. Do you agree? Few students get full marks in their Chinese writing in the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE。 高考 ). But Wu Bin, who has just taken the exam, is (1) to be one of those rare students. He wrote a poem. I39。ve never (2) my poem to be given full marks. I only thought that it would not be that bad, said the 18yearold boy. Wu (3) from Ruiquan Middle School in Weinan, Shaanxi Province. He said when he heard the news, two strong feelings (4) up inside him — surprise and excitement. Writing a poem in the NCEE is always considered a (5) because teachers find it hard to mark students39。 poems. Also, there are seldom opportunities for students to read or practice writing poems. And only in the last three years have students been allowed to hand in a poem in their writing test. It39。s (6) for students to write a good argumentative (議論的 ) or narrative (記敘的 ) story. Wu started working on his piece in the last 50 minutes of the test. Since he spent almost half that time (7) his ideas, Wu decided to save time by writing a poem that needed fewer words than other types of writing. In the exam, he was asked to (8) why it39。s not wise for people to make judgments using their hearts rather than their heads. When I looked out the window, the shining sun gave me some ideas on a similar truth. People with sunglasses will say the sunlight is red, orange, yellow, or blue, but everyone knows that its real color is white, he said. So Wu39。s 27line modern (9) philosophically (富有哲理地 ) showed his ideas on the topic. And it turned out to be a great success with the teachers who (10) his paper. II. Understanding