案例分析题Every Object Tells a Story凡事皆有戏Everyone has a particular object to which they attach a special meaning or story. Every Object Tells A(1) is a participative website that enables people to explore the stories and meanings behind collections of museum objects.(2) to the site can create their own stories and share their own interpretations and objects online.The project (3) on the art of storytelling and involves four regional museums, in partnership with Channel 4 and Ultralab, a (4) technology research centre at Anglia Polytechnic University. It will be led by the Victoria and Albert Museum. It (5) the personal meanings and histories behind objects to get people to look at them in new ways. It (6) designed to inspire them to create their own stories and share their interpretations and objects of personal significance (7) a growing online community.Video, audio, text and pictures combine on the site to offer an enticing, accessible (8) into the content. Users can choose to browse the hundreds of objects featured, or they can search for (9) particular theme or person. They can decide on the level of information they want on an object, from (10) stories conveyed through text and pictures, to the richer experience offered by accompanying video and audio. They will (11) encouraged to add their own interpretation or object to the collection, by uploading text, images, video or audio (12) the site or by sending text and images from a mobile phone. In so doing, they will be (13) to the website’s content and illustrating how a single object can convey different meanings to different people.The (14) stories and wonderful objects will appeal to a broad audience. The project has specific relevance to all key (15) of the National Curriculum in English and literacy. Outreach sessions in regional partner museums will encourage people to (16) involved in the project locally and a video booth will travel around England, visiting shopping centres, libraries, bus (17) and the like, to enable people to capture their object and story in a short video. This will (18) be uploaded onto the site.In addition to the national and local publicity given to the project, Channel 4 (19) promote the website from a number of its programmes, ensuring a wide appeal and providing an added (20) for people to contribute their content. (13)处填入()
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Directions:In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.The tragic impact of the modern city on the human being has killed his sense of aesthetics, the material benefits of an affluent society have diverted his attention from his city and its cultural potentials to the products of science and technology, washing machines, central heating, automatic cookers, television sets, computers and fitted carpets. He is, at the moment, drunk with democracy, well-to-do, a car driver, and has never had it so good.He is reluctant to walk. Statistics reveal that the distance he is prepared to walk from his parking place to his shopping center is very short. (41) __________. Congestion has become the predominant factor in his environment, and statistics suggest that two cars per household system may soon make matters worse.(42) __________. "Putting land to its highest and best use" becomes the principal economic standard in urban growth. This speculative approach and the pressure of increasing population leads to the "vertical" growth of cities with the result that people are forced to adjust themselves to congestion in order to maintain these relatively artificial land values. Paradoxically the remedy for removing congestion is to create more of it.Partial decentralization, or rather, pseudo-decentralization, in the form of large development units away from the traditional town centers, only’ shifts the disease round the anatomy of the town; if it is not combined with the remodeling of the town’s transportation system, it does not cure it. (43) __________.It is within our power to build better cities and revive the civic pride of their citizens, but we shall have to stop operating on the fringe of the problem. We shall have radically to replan them to achieve a rational density of population. We shall have to provide in them what can be called minimum "psychological elbow room." (44) __________. We must collect, in an organized manner, all and complete information about the city or the town, if we want to plan effectively.The principal unit in this process is "IM’ (one man). We must not forget that cities are built by people, and that their form and shape should be subject to the will of the people. (45) __________.The "man-educate’ man, the human, will have to set the target, and using the results obtained by science and his own engineering skill, take upon himself the final shaping of his environment. He will have to use his high moral sense of responsibility to the community and to future generations.[A] New systems of city management may be necessary to cope with the needs of today’s urban populations. Some planners insist that a decentralised decision-making process is fundamental to ensuring that cities work for and not against people.[B] As there are no adequate off-street parking facilities, the cities are littered with kerb parked cars and parking meters rear themselves everywhere.[C] Here the engineering solutions are strongly affected by the necessity for complicated intersections, which in turn, are frustrated by the extravagant cost of land.[D] Scientific methods of data collection and analysis will indicate trends, but they will not direct action. Scientific methods are only an instrument.[E] The convergence of economic growth, population growth and urban expansion offers both great challenges and great potentials for realizing metropolitan sustainability.[F] In the meantime, insult is added to injury by "land value." The value of land results from its use; its income is derived from the service it provides. When its use is intensified, its income and its value increase.[G] One of the ingredients of this will be proper transportation plans. These will have to be an integral part of the overall planning process which in itself is a scientific process where facts are essential. 44
案例分析题Passage ThreeUffizi Tries to Outdo LouvreUffizi试图胜过卢浮宫Italy is to try to turn the Uffizi gallery in Florence into Europe’s premier art museum, with an ambitious 56m euro scheme to double its exhibition space.Giuliano Urbani, Italy’s culture minister, said the enlarged gallery would surpass "even the Louvre".By the time work is completed, visitors to the extensively remodeled Uffizi will be able to see 800 new works, including many now confined to the gallery’s storerooms for lack of space.The project—the outcome of nine months of intensive work by a team of architects, engineers and technicians—is a centrepiece of the cultural policy of Silvio Berlusconi’s government.With refurbishment plans also afoot for the Accademia in Venice and the Brera in Milan, Italy is bent on securing its share of a market for cultural tourism that is threatened not just by the Louvre, but also by the " art triangle" of Madrid, which takes in the Prado, the Thyssen collection and the Reina Sofia museum of art.Schemes for the expansion of the Uffizi’s exhibition space stretch back almost 60 years. The latest was mooted in the mid-1990s.But the one adopted by the present Italian government has reached a far more advanced stage than any of its forerunners. Roberto Cecchi, the government official in charge of the project, said yesterday that all that remained to do was to tender for contracts.The first changes will be seen as early as next week when a collection of pictures by Caravaggio and his school, including the artist’s Bacchus, currently crammed into a tiny room on the second floor, is to be moved to more expansive premises on the first.Mr.Cecchi said the biggest problem faced by his team was "inserting a museum into a building that is itself a monument". The horseshoe-shaped Palazzo degli Uffizi, began in 1560, was designed by the artist and historian Giorgio Vasari.The latest plans are bound to stir controversy, involving as they do the creation of new stairwells and lifts in the heart of the building. There has already been an outcry over one proposed element, a seven-storey, canopy-like structure for a new exit by the Japanese architect Arata lsozaki.But Mr.Urbani said in Florence on Tuesday that part of the scheme was "subject to further evaluation".At the heart of the plan is the opening up of the first floor of the vast building, which for decades was occupied by the local branch of the national archives.This will allow visitors to follow a more extensive, and ordered, itinerary that would turn the Uffizi into what Antonio Paolucci, Tuscany’s top art official, called "a textbook of art history".As at present, visitors will be channelled to the second floor, where they will be able to study early works by Cimabue and Giotto before moving on to admire the gallery’s extraordinary collection of Renaissance masterpieces, including Botticelli’s Primavera.But most of what was painted after 1500 is to be moved down a storey to new exhibition space, and on the ground floor there will be a more extensive collection than at present of modern art. The overall increase in exhibition space will be from 6,000sq metres to almost 13,000.Asked if the expansion might not increase the risk of inducing Stendhal’s syndrome—the disorientation, noted by the French novelist, in those who encounter dozens of Italian Renaissance masterpieces—Mr. Cecchi replied fatalistically, "Yes. It’ll double it". The fact that a group of architects, engineers and technicians spent nine months on the projec! shows that().
A. it was a large-scale project involving collaboration of experts from various fields
B. it was completed at amazing speed
C. the government attached great importance to the project
D. the government was following the correct cultural policy
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B. Go to the lab.
C. Go swimming.
案例分析题B Customs of Bulgaria: Marriage and Family保加利亚习俗:婚姻与家庭The average age for women to marry is between 18 and 25.25 tend to (1) when somewhat older. A church wedding often (2) the legal civil ceremony, and a large reception, which often involves (3) music and dancing, is held in the evening. Wedding traditions include (4) money on the bride’s dress to represent future prosperity, the groom (5) the bride at her home, and the couple pulling on opposite (6) of a loaf of bread—whoever gets the largest piece will be (7) boss of the family. Honeymoons are a new tradition.The principle (8) mutual support is valued in the Bulgarian family. The elderly are (9) cared for by their adult children. Unmarried adults live with their (10) and many newly married couples live with one set of parents (11) they are able to get housing of their own. Most families (12) urban areas live in apartments, which are in shortsupply, while (13) in rural areas usually have their own houses. Many village houses (14) owned by families who live in urban areas, who use them (15) summer and weekend retreats, or for retired parents.Most families in (16) areas do not have more than two children, while families in (17) areas tend to be larger. Grandparents play an important role in (18) care, particularly in urban areas, where most women work outside the (19) . Men of the younger generation have begun to help with household (20) , once considered only women’s responsibility. (1)处填入()