Question

Today’s museums include plenty of high culture, but you can still find shrines（圣地）to the extraordinary. Here’s a look at five curious museum stops across Canada.

Vancouver Police Museum

The setting, terrible enough, is the old Coroner’s（验尸官）Court and forensics lab, including the morgue(room where dead bodies are kept). Artifacts, from the 1870s on, include badges, uniforms, police equipment, items from criminals, and even preserved organs—all in all an arresting experience.

Vulcan Tourism & Trek Station

Designed to resemble a spacecraft, the Treck Station celebrates Vulcan’s coincidental relationship to Mr. Spock’s planet, Go to a building that features an 800-piece collection of Star Trek memorabilia — including Spock’s ears and floor-to-ceiling space paintings. If you want to know more about it, click here: http//www. Vulcantourism. com

Accordion（手风琴）Museum

Through instruments, photos and recordings, the museum traces the history of the accordion and its influence on Quebec culture. They’ve even acquired Asian instruments that show the use of the free reed— call them ancient ancestors of the accordion—that date back 4000 years.

Chocolate Museum

It’s chocoholic heaven — whole museum featuring displays on how chocolate is made, hands-on exhibits, collections of historic chocolate boxes, and antique candy- making equipment and, of course, lots of chocolate treats ,located in an old candy factory building. Click below to learn all about their hours and admission rates. http:// www. Chocolate museum .ca

Potato museum

A 14--foot high potato greets you at what’s billed as the world’s largest exhibit of potato artifacts. Explore the humble potato’s role in the economy, a collection of farm tools related to growing and harvesting potatoes, Hall of Fame.

1.If you are very interested in thrilling movies, you will probably be attracted by     .

A. Accordion Museum         B. Vancouver Police Museum

C. Potato Museum            D. Chocolate Museum

2.We can infer from the passage that the ancestors of accordion originated in     .

A．Canada   B．America   C．Asia      D．Africa

3.The passage is most likely to be taken from     .

A．a magazine  B．a newspaper

C．a website  D．a brochure

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.C

【解析】

试题分析：本文是一篇说明文，介绍了各种博物馆，包括温哥华警察博物馆，祝融星旅行站博物馆，手风琴博物馆，巧克力博物馆和土豆博物馆。

1.B细节理解题。根据第二段提到The setting, terrible enough, is the old Coroner’s（验尸官）Court and forensics lab, including the morgue(room where dead bodies are kept)这些设施，很令人恐怖，是在验尸官法庭，取证室 ，包括停尸房，故选B项。

2.C细节推断题。根据第四段提到They’ve even acquired Asian instruments that show the use of the free reed— call them ancient ancestors of the accordion—that date back 4000 years他们是收购了亚洲的乐器，表示对于芦苇的利用，古老的乐器，故选C项。

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