训练5|体裁: 说明文 主题: 社会现象 难度: ★★★★★ 建议用时: 8 min 正确率: /10
Has this ever happened to you? You are walking through a museum. All of a sudden, a work of art c 1 your eye. You lean in closer ... closer ... as close as you can. You let your fingertip brush the stone.
Do you want to reach out and touch the artwork? If so, you are not a 2!
Ms. Candlin used to work at a museum. For two years, she watched visitors in the British Museum. They were always touching things. But museum rules are very c 3. The rules say: No touching the art!
Some museums get millions of t 4 a year. They cannot all be allowed to pick up important items. After all, people are clumsy. They can break things. Sometimes their hands are dirty. The rule makes s 5.
So why do we still do it? Some wanted to make sure the things in the museum were r 6. Others thought if something wasn't behind glass, it was OK to touch. Maybe there is a bigger r 7. We need to touch to learn. Touching something helps us think about it in a new way. It c 8 us to the past.
Candlin once got to h 9 a very old stone ax. It was thousands of years old. The ax fit well in her hand. She thought that whoever had made it had a hand l 10 hers. That is a powerful idea, Candlin says. She remembers it whenever she goes to a museum. "I always want to touch things," she says. "And sometimes I do."
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1. catches 根据下文“You lean in closer ... closer ... as close as you can.”可知你尽可能地靠近，由此可知艺术品吸引了你的注意；catch one's eye 表示“引起某人注意”，句子时态是一般现在时。故填 catches。
2. alone 根据上文“Do you want to reach out and touch the artwork? If so”和下文“They were always touching things.”可知很多游客会触摸艺术品，你并不是唯一想伸手触摸艺术品的人。故填 alone。
3. clear 根据下文“The rules say: No touching the art!”可知博物馆的规定非常明确：禁止触碰艺术品。故填 clear。
4. tourists 根据上文“she watched visitors in the British Museum”和下文“They cannot all be allowed to pick up important items.”可知一些博物馆每年接待数百万游客；根据空前“millions of”可知此处应用名词的复数形式。故填 tourists。
5. sense 根据上文“They can break things. Sometimes their hands are dirty.”可知游客会打破艺术品，有时他们的手很脏，由此可知博物馆禁止触碰艺术品的规定是有道理的；make sense 表示“有道理”。故填 sense。
6. real 根据空前“Some wanted to make sure the things in the museum”可知有些人触摸博物馆的艺术品是想确保它们是真实的。故填 real。
7. reason 根据上文“So why do we still do it?”和下文“We need to touch to learn.”可知我们需要通过触摸来学习是人们触摸博物馆的艺术品的一个更重要的原因。故填 reason。
8. connects 根据空后“us to the past”可知触摸艺术品将我们与过去联系起来；根据上文“helps”可知句子时态是一般现在时。故填 connects。
9. hold 根据下文“The ax fit well in her hand.”可知斧子与她的手匹配，由此可知她用手拿着斧子。故填 hold。
10. like 根据上文“The ax fit well in her hand.”和语境“had a hand l 10 hers”可知斧子与她的手匹配，由此可知制作斧子的人有和她一样的手。故填 like。

【分析】
本题为说明文选词填空，需结合上下文语境、固定搭配、语法规则（时态、名词单复数等）逐一确定单词。首先通读全文，理解主旨：围绕博物馆游客想触摸艺术品的现象，探讨背后的原因及博物馆的规定。再逐空分析：结合前后文逻辑、固定短语、语法要求（如一般现在时主谓一致、名词复数）来匹配合适的单词。
【解析】
1. 根据下文“You lean in closer ... closer ... as close as you can”可知艺术品吸引了你的注意，固定搭配catch one's eye表示“引起某人注意”，句子时态为一般现在时，主语a work of art为单数，故填catches。
2. 根据上文“Do you want to reach out and touch the artwork? If so”及下文“They were always touching things”可知很多游客会触摸艺术品，你并非唯一有此想法的人，故填alone。
3. 根据下文“The rules say: No touching the art!”可知博物馆的规定非常明确，故填clear。
4. 根据上文“she watched visitors in the British Museum”及下文“They cannot all be allowed to pick up important items”可知一些博物馆每年接待数百万游客，millions of后接可数名词复数，故填tourists。
5. 根据上文“They can break things. Sometimes their hands are dirty”可知游客可能损坏艺术品或弄脏，因此博物馆禁止触碰的规定是有道理的，固定短语make sense表示“有道理”，故填sense。
6. 根据空前“Some wanted to make sure the things in the museum”可知部分人触摸艺术品是想确认其真实性，故填real。
7. 根据上文“So why do we still do it?”及下文“We need to touch to learn”可知触摸艺术品还有更重要的原因，故填reason。
8. 根据空后“us to the past”可知触摸艺术品将我们与过去联系起来，句子时态为一般现在时，主语it为单数，故填connects。
9. 根据下文“The ax fit well in her hand”可知Candlin曾拿着一把古老的石斧，故填hold。
10. 根据上文“The ax fit well in her hand”可知制作石斧的人有和她相似的手，故填like。
【答案】
1. catches 2. alone 3. clear 4. tourists 5. sense 6. real 7. reason 8. connects 9. hold 10. like
【知识点】
固定搭配、名词单复数、一般现在时
【点评】
本题为围绕博物馆游客触摸艺术品的社会现象展开的说明文，既考查了学生对英语词汇、固定搭配及语法知识的掌握，也引导学生思考人与历史的关联，需结合上下文逻辑逐一分析，难度适中偏难。
【难度系数】
0.2