C

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.

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

A.potato Museum           B.Chocolate Museum

C.Vancouver Police Museum  D.Accordion Museum

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

A.Canada  B.America  C.Africa  D.Asia

30.People having a sweet tooth may prefer visiting        .

A.Accordion Museum    B.Potato Museum

C.Chocolate Museum    D.Vulcan Tourism & Trek Station

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

A.a magazine  B.a website  C.a newspaper  D.a brochure

D.

Shenzhen’s transport police recently declared a policeman a “star” member of staff, after he continued to serve in his post even after losing his newborn son. After a netizen made that known, internet users were merciless in their criticism, claiming Sun had sacrificed his son for his career and was unqualified to be a father or even a human being. Though Sun’s wife said via her micro blog he was the best husband and father in the world, it didn’t stop the tide of condemnation.

I feel deeply sorry for this man. It’s not that he should have received the award. It’s traditional in China for individuals to make sacrifices for a group or the country, which remains to be questioned. What annoys me is the netizens pouring anger on the father instead of showing sympathy. Why are they so quick to claim the moral high ground and set themselves up as judges? Whether the father accompanied his son until the last moment or not is a personal affair. The treatment of Sun is a case in point—of the “tyranny(专制)of the majority”. And the majority is not always correct or fair.

Micro blogs have been a growing trend in China in the last few years, becoming a channel for ordinary people to express their opinions, which was previously the preserve of elites(精英) and the media. The positive side of this has been praised enough. But we also need to examine the downside: Self-proclaimed(自诩的)online arbiters of what is right and wrong form another type of unfair rule running cruelly over opinions that don’t match their own. Without knowing enough details and without any serious thought, they pronounce their judgment as opinion of the “majority”.

We should question this expression of personal opinion and the commonness of group attacks. What we need is real, independent critical thinking instead of an Internet mob(暴徒).

I have no idea how to change the situation but I do hope it happens.

32.What do we know about the policeman referred to ?

A.He was a model policeman but a failure as a father.

B.He cared little about the loss of his newborn son.

C.He was severely under verbal(言语上的) attack of the netizens.

D.He did not even have his wife’s understanding.

33.The writer of the passage probably will agree that       .

A.the policeman quite deserved the honor of the award.

B.individuals’ sacrifice for a group is undoubtedly a good act.

C.micro blogs are a preserved channel for elites and the media only.

D.some netizens claim their unsound judgments as opinion of the majority.

34.The underlined word “arbiters” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to       .

A.bloggers   B.referees   C.criminals  D.programmers

35.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A.Tyranny of the majority online goes wild

B.Policeman who lose baby son got awarded

C.Micro blogs need tough control

D.How to stay away from Internet mobs