Changes have come into museums. They are not places that one "should" go any longer but a place to get pleasure. If you go to a science museum in Canada, when harmless electricity passes through your body you can feel your hair stand on end. At the Children’s Museum in New York, you can strike an African drum. In some other museums in the USA, "Do Not Touch" signs do not exist. It is realized by more and more museum directors that when becoming a part of what they are seeing, people get the best learning effect. Many science museums encourage visitors to touch, listen, operate as well as experiment in order that they can discover scientific rules by themselves. The intention of the change is not only to provide pleasure, but make people feel easy in the scientific world. Suppose you don’t understand science, you will fear it; and when you fear science, you may not make the best use of it. The rise in wealth and spare time is one of the reasons for all these changes. Another reason is the increasing number of young people in the whole population. Among them are mainly college students or college graduates, with a new and totally different way of seeing the world. They want art which they can take part in. It’s also true in science and history. Ancient museums have been changing and the government is encouraging to build new, modern museums. There are more than 6,000 museums in the United States and Canada, which are almost twice as it was 25 years ago.
1. The directors of the museums have realized ( )
A. scientific rules are very important
B. people learn best when they touch something.
C. museums are the most popular places
D. people become interested if they take part
2. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? ( )
A. Scientific phenomena should be discovered by some people through experiment.
B. People are allowed to touch something in some museums.
C. The rising in wealth contributes to the changes in museums.
D. The intention of these changes is only to providing fun.
3. Why have young people caused the changes in museums? ( )
A. Because they are better educated.
B. Because they often go to museums to study.
C. Because they have more spare time.
D. Because they are very wealthy.
4. There are only about ____ museums in all the United States and Canada 25 years ago. ( )
A.3,500.
B.2,000.
C.3,000.
D.6,000.
5. The main idea of this text is to ( )
A. explain the difference between the old and modern museums
B. encourage people to go to America
C. introduce changes in modern museums
D. show people advantages to go museums
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