TheMuseumofChildhoodisAustrali-优题课

Grandpa was a carpenter (木匠). One day he was making some boxes for the clothes his church was sending to an orphanage (孤儿院) in Egypt. On his way home, he reached into his shirt pocket to find his glasses, but they were gone. He drove back to the church, but his search turned out to be fruitless.
Suddenly, he realized what happened. The glasses had slipped out of his pocket and fallen into one of the boxes, which he had nailed shut. His new glasses were heading for Africa!
Grandpa had six children and he had paid twenty dollars for the glasses that morning. “It's not fair,” he told God as he drove home. “I've been very faithful (忠诚的) in giving my time and money to YOUR work.”
Several months later, the director of the orphanage was on holiday in the United States. He wanted to visit all the churches that helped him in Egypt, so he came to speak on Sunday night at my grandfather's small church in Chicago.
“But most of all,” he said, “I must thank you for the glasses you sent last year. You see, I had just broken my glasses. Then your boxes arrived. To my surprise, I found a pair of glasses in it and it fit me very well!”
The people listened, happy for the amazing glasses, but thought that the man must have confused their church with another. There were no glasses on their list of items to be sent overseas. Sitting quietly in the back, with tears in his eyes, Grandpa realized that God had played a big trick on him.
Where were Grandpa’s glasses lost?

A．In a church in Egypt.	B．In the box he made.
C．On his way home.	D．At the orphanage.

How did Grandpa feel when he found his glasses were lost?

A．Calm.	B．Worried.
C．Surprised.	D．Disappointed.

Who got the glasses in the end?

A．Grandpa.

B．The orphanage.

C．Grandpa’s workmate.

D．The director of the orphanage.

The people except the author’s grandpa in the church _________.

A．sent the pair of glasses to Africa on purpose

B．knew the glasses that belonged to Grandpa

C．thought the director had made a mistake

D．were not interested in the director’s speech

Venue (地点) The Ian Potter Centre
Admission Free entry
Charles Blackman is famous for his beautiful painting of dreams. In 1956, he heard for the first time Lewis Carroll’s extraordinary tale of Alice in Wonderland –the story of a Victorian girl who falls down a rabbit hole, meets a lot of funny characters and experience all kinds of things. At that time, Blackman’s wife was suffering form progressive blindness. The story of Alice moving through the strange situations, often disheartened by various events, was similar to his wife’s experiences. It also reflected so much of his own life. All this contributed to the completion of the Alice in Wonderland paintings.
Illustrator Workshop
Go straight to the experts for an introductory course in book illustration. The course includes an introduction to the process of illustration and its techniques, workshop exercise and group projects.
Dates Sunday 17 June &Sunday 5Aug.10am—1pm
Venue Gas Works Arts Park
Wonderful World
Celebrate the exhibition and Children’s Book Week with special activities just for the day, including a special visit from Alice and the White Rabbit
Date Sunday 24 June,11am—4pm
Venue Exhibition Space, Level 3
Topsy-Turvy
Visit the exhibition or discover wonderful curiosities in artworks in the NGV Collection and make a magic world in a box. Alice and the White Rabbit will be with you. Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland will be screened
Dates Sunday 8,15,22,29 July, and Tuesday 24-Friday 27 July, 12noon—3pm
Venue Theatre, NGV Australia
Drawing Workshop
Distortions of scale ( 比例失真) can make artworks strange but interesting. Find out how Charles Blackman distorted scale in his paintings to create a curious world. Then experiment with scale in your own drawings. More information upon booking.
Date Friday 27 July,10:30am-3pm
Venue Foryer, Level 3
Charles Blackman’s paintings come from ________.

A．his admiration for Lewis Carrioll

B．his dream of becoming a famous artist

C．his wish to express his own feelings

D．his eagerness to cure his wife’s illness

Which two activities can you participate in on the same day?

A．Topsy-Turvy and Drawing Workshop.

B．Illustrator Workshop and Drawing Workshop.

C．Wonerful World and Topsy –Turvy.

D．Illustrator Workshop and Wonderful World.

To understand the Alice in Wonderland paintings, you should go to ________.

A．Exhibition Space .Level 3

B．Gas Works Arts Park

C．Theatre, NGV Australia

D．Foyer, Level 3

Activities concerning children’s books are to be held

A．on June 24,2007	B．on July15,2007
C．on July 24,2007	D．on August 5,2007

Many gardeners believe that “talking” to their plants helps them grow---it turns out that they may not be crazy after all. According to the scientists from the University of Exeter, plants may keep communicating with each other through a secret “unseen” language.
For their experiment, the scientists picked a cabbage plant that is known to send out a gas when its surface is cut. In order to get video evidence of the communication, they changed the cabbage gene by adding the protein---luciderase(虫荧光素酶), which is what makes fireflies(萤火虫) glow in the dark.
When the changed cabbage plant was in full bloom, they cut a leaf off with a pair of scissors, and almost immediately, thanks to the luciderase, they could see the plant sending out “methyl jasmonate(茉莉酸甲酯)”.
While this was a known fact, what was surprising was the fact that the minute this gas began to give out, the nearby cabbage plants seemed to sense some kind of danger and started to send out a gas that they normally have to keep predators(捕食者) like caterpillars(毛虫) away.
What the scientists are not sure is whether the plants are trying to warn the other leaves or the near plants about the danger---something that will require further research However, the team, which is led by Professor Nick Smirnoff, is quite excited about the findings because this is the first time it has been proved that plants do not live a passive life, but actually move, sense and even communicate with each other.
However, before you get all concerned, they are quite sure that plants do not feel the pain when they are cut, since they do not have nerves---so go ahead and bite into that juicy carrot!
What’s the best title of the passage?

A． Plants Can Send Some Gas

B． Plants Can Communicate with Each Other

C． The “Unseen” Language of Plants

D． Plants Can’t Feel Pain

What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 1 mean?

A． Gardeners	B． Plants
C． Scientists	D． Fireflies

When the plant sent out methyl jasmonate, which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?

A． The nearby cabbage plants seemed to sense some kind of danger.

B． The nearby cabbage plants started to send out a gas.

C． The nearby cabbage plants tried to warn the near plants.

D． The nearby cabbage plants communicated through a secret language.

According to the experiment, plants ________________.

A． don’t live a passive life

B． can feel pain when they are cut

C． can warn the other leaves about danger

D． can talk with each other

When we see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we realize how important our eyes are.
People who are near-sighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Everything else seems blurry. Many people who do a lot of work, such as writing, reading and sewing become near-sighted. People who are far-sighted suffer from just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses, too.
Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. They have what is called astigmatism (散光). This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts (白内障). Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.
Having two good eyes is important for judging distances. Each eye sees things from a slightly different angle. To prove this to yourself, look at an object out of one eye; then look at the same object out of your other eye. You will find the object’s relation to the background and other things around it has changed. The difference between these two different eye views helps us to judge how far away an object is. People who have only one eye cannot judge distances as people with two eyes.
We should take good care of our eyes .

A．only when we can see well

B．only when we cannot see perfectly

C．even if we can see well

D．only when we realize how important our eyes are

The underlined word blurry in the second paragraph probably means .

A．obvious

B．possible

C．clear

D．unclear

Having two eyes instead of one is particularly useful for .

A．seeing at night

B．seeing objects far away

C．looking over a wide area

D．judging distances

People who suffer from astigmatism have .

A．one eye bigger than the other

B．eyes that are not exactly the right shape

C．a difficulty that can be corrected by an operation

D．an eye difficulty that cannot be corrected by glasses

The Doll and the White Rose
I was walking around in a mall, when I saw a cashier(出纳员) hand this little boy some money back．The cashier said, “I'm sorry, but you don't have enough money to buy this doll．”The little boy seemed very disappointeD.
I walked toward him and asked him who he wished to give this doll to．"It's the doll that my sister wanted so much for Christmas．She was sure that Santa Claus would bring it to her: But Santa Claus can't bring it to her where she is now．I have to give the doll to my mommy so that she can give it to my sister when she goes there．"His eyes were so saD."My sister has gone to be with GoD.Daddy says that Mommy is going to see God very soon too, so I thought that she could take the doll with her to give it to my sister．"
My heart nearly stoppeD.The little boy looked up at me and continued, "I told Daddy to tell Mommy not to go yet．I need her to wait until I come back from the mall．"
I quickly reached for my wallet and said," Suppose we check again, just in case you do have enough money for the doll．"
"OK, I hope I do have enough," he saiD.I put some of my money with his without him seeing and we started to count it．There was enough for the doll and even some spare money．
Surprisingly, the little boy cried, "Thank you God for giving me enough money!" Then he looked at me and added, "I asked last night before I went to sleep for God to make sure I had enough money to buy this doll, so that Mommy could give it to my sister．He heard me! I also wanted to have enough money to buy a white rose for my mommy, but I didn't dare to ask God for too much．But he gave me enough to buy the doll and a white rose ! "
Then I remembered two days before a local newspaper reported an accident in which a woman and a little girl were badly injureD.The little girl died right away, and the mother was left in a critical state．Was this the family of the little boy?
Two days after I met the little boy, I read in the newspaper that the woman had passed away．I couldn't stop myself from going to the funeral．Teary-eyed, I felt that my life had been changed forever．
The boy wanted to buy the doll because ．

A．he had always been eager for such a doll

B．Santa Claus didn't give him any Christmas gift

C．he would give it to his mother as a birthday surprise

D．he wanted to turn his sister's Christmas wish into reality

We can learn from the story that ．

A．the boy's sister died after staying in hospital for two weeks

B．the boy's family were all seriously injured in a car accident

C．the author gave the boy some extra money without his notice

D．the boy's mother always wished to receive a white rose on Christmas

The story most probably conveys the message that ．

A．a kind act can bring joy and hope to others

B．a gift is a perfect way to express love for others

C．losing a family member is a heavy blow to children

D．a religious belief can help one solve problems in his life

A．closed	B．holding special activities
C．not closed until 4:00	D．not closed until 4:30