51. The museum was started when 　　　　.

　　 A. Robert Shostak wanted to do something for computer scientists

　　 B. Robert Shostak wanted to help computer artists

　　 C. art students needed a place to show their works

　　 D. computer scientists wanted to do something about art

50. To see the art in FIU museum, you need　　　 .

　　 A. floppy discs　　　　　　　　 　 B. a computer and a printer

　　 C. pictures and drawings on paper

　　 D. a computer connected to the museum by telephone line

49. The main purpose of this text is to give information about　　 .

　　 A. museums throughout the world　

　　 B. an electronic art museum in Miami, U.S.A.

　　 C. art exhibitions in Florida International University

　　 D. latest development of computer art

48. What's the writer's purpose in this text?

　　 A. To describe Mollie Hunter's most successful books.

　　 B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter's books.

　　 C. To introduce Mollie Hunter's work to a wider audience.

　　 D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter's existing readers.

C

There are many famous museums throughout the world where people can enjoy art. Washington, D.C. has the National Gallery of Art (美术馆); Paris has the Luvre; London, the British Museum. Florida International University (FIU) in Miami also shows art for people to see. And it does so without a building, or even a wall for its drawings and paintings.

FIU has opened what it says is the first computer art museum in the United States. You don't have to visit the University to see the art. You just need a computer linked to a telephone. You can call the telephone number of a university computer and connect your own computer to it. All of the art is stored in the school computer. It is computer art, produced electronically by artists on their own computers. In only a few minutes, your computer can receive and copy all the pictures and drawings.

Robert Shostak is director of the new computer museum. He says he starts the museum because computer artists had no place to show their works.

A computer artist can only record his pictures electronically and send the records, or floppy discs, to others to see on their computers. He can also put his pictures on paper. But to print good pictures on paper, the computer artist needs an expensive laser printer.

Robert Shostak says the electronic museum is mostly for art or computer students at schools and universities. Many of the pictures in the museum are made by students. Mr Shostak said the FIU museum will make computer art more fun for computer artists because more people can see it. He says artists enjoy their work much more if they have

an audience. And the great number of home computers in America could mean a huge audience for the electronic museum.

47. In comparison with children of earlier years, Mollie feels that modern children are 　　　.

　　 A. more intelligent　　　　　　　　　　 　B. better informed

　　 C. less eager to learn　　　　　　　　　 D. less interested in reality

46. What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child?

　　 A. She didn't expect to become a writer. B. She didn't enjoy writing stories.

　　 C. She didn't have any particular ambitions. D. She didn't respect her teacher's views.

45. In Mollie Hunter's opinion, which of the following is one sign of a poor writer?

　　 A. Being poor in life experience.　　 B. Being short of writing skills.

　　 C. The weakness of description.　　　 D. The absence of a story.

44. What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book?

　　 A. It should not aim at a narrow audience.

　　 B. It should be attractive to young readers.

　　 C. It should be based on original ideas.

　　 D. It should not include too much conversation.

43. All the following show Windows 95 is important to Microsoft Company except　　　 .

　　 A. Windows 95 will build up people's faith (信心) in the country's future products

　　 B. Windows 95 will bring about a great change in the whole computer industry

　　 C. other companies don't think highly of Windows 95

　　 D. Windows 95 will help sell more powerful computers

B

“A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right,” says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is. In Mollie's opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which is what every writer should be doing. “If you aren't telling a story, you're a very dead writer indeed,” she says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain (让人愉快), Mollie is indeed an entertainer. “I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language,” she says. “This love goes back to early childhood. I've told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said ‘Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you’ll be a writer.’ So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer.”

This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical (自传体的) and gives a picture both of Mollie's ambition (理想) and her struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably(不可避免地)brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fields-sadly now covered with modern houses.“I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood. I'll never go back,”she said. “Never.”“When I set one of my books in Scotland,”she said,“I can recall my romantic (浪漫的) feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at work. And that's important, because children now know so much so early that romance can't exist for them, as it did for us.”

42. Some believe that Windows 95 will not only bring in a lot of money but also　　 .

　　 A. replace the older products　　　　

　　 B. threat (威胁) other computer companies

　　 C. help sell other products produced by Microsoft Company

　　 D. bring about changes in other fields