Philadelphia has the highest murder rate of any US city.

A.New York

B.Philadelphia

C.Washington D.C

D.Boston

What has the Philadelphia Museum of Art been obliged to do because of insufficient space？

A．Hire fifteen curators to plan gallery displays.

B．Strengthen its collection through donations.

C．Be cautious in allowing the public to view its artwork.

D．Be selective in accepting additional artwork.

anning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered facades and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too- distant future.

In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space and neighborhoods around them or are preparing to do so.

The reasons for this confluence of activity are complex, but one factor is a consideration everywhere — space. With collections expanding, with the needs and functions of museums changing, empty space has become a very precious commodity.

Probably nowhere in the country is this more true than at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has needed additional space for decades and which received its last significant facelift ten years ago. Because of the space crunch, the Art Museum has become increasingly cautious in considering acquisitions and donations of art, in some cases passing up opportunities to strengthen its collections.

Deaccessing — or selling off — works of art has taken on new importance because of the museum's space problems. And increasingly, curators have been forced to juggle gallery space, rotating one masterpiece into public view while another is sent to storage.

Despite the clear need for additional gallery and storage space, however, "the museum has no plan, no plan to break out of its envelope in the next fifteen years," according to Philadelphia Museum of Art's president.

This passage is mainly about the need for additional space in which of the following？

A．A neighborhood museum.

B．The Philadelphia Museum of Art.

C．Museums in the United States.

D．An aerospace museum.

ces that its aggressively looking for ways to cut energy use in its plants. At the company's annual meeting last week in Philadelphia, its Chief Executive Officer, Ben Parker outlined an ambitious set of steps that are expected to reduce energy consumption in the company's industrial kitchens up to 5% within two years. CHN Incorporated is also undertaking an initiative to cut the amount of solid waste it generates by asking all its suppliers to reduce the amount of packaging materials they use when shipping food ingredients to the company's plants.

What type of business is CHN Incorporated involved in？

A．Energy supply

B．Garbage disposal

C．Food manufacturing

D．Restaurant management

听力原文： A silver dollar is not worth a dollar--nor is any other silver coin really worth its face value. Silver coins are made of an alloy--a mixture of 10 per cent copper and 90 per cent silver---which lasts much longer in circulation than pure silver would. A silver dollar contains 90 cents worth of silver and a dime has 9 cents worth. It takes only a pennyworth of silver to make a nickel.

This was not the case in 1792, when the United States began minting coins of pure gold and silver. Citizens were welcome to stop in anytime with gold or silver in any form--cups, vases, or even gold fillings from their teeth--and have it melted down for spending money.

Today the mints in Philadelphia and Denver earn a yearly profit of about ＄40 million. Most of this comes from using alloys rather than pure silver in the production of the ＄2.5 billion worth of coins circulating in the United States. The Philadelphia plant also manufactures coins for foreign countries. In a recent year almost 130 million coins were made for the use of foreign governments.

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A．Because their value has been raised since they were made.

B．Because they contain more silver than they used to.

C．Because they contain less silver than they should do.

D．Because the metal wears down in use.

听力原文： US weather forecasters yesterday admitted that the deadly snowstorm that has swept along the east coast was a nasty surprise. "We're really cursing those computer models," said Andrew Woodcock, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sterling, Virginia. "They had the low (pressure system) way out to the sea."

The storm raced north along the coast on Monday and Tuesday, leaving nearly two feet of snow in places. Many schools and businesses across the east were closed again yesterday, along with all Philadelphia city offices and courts and most Maryland state offices.

Which description is NOT correct about the storm？

A．It is nasty.

B．It is a surprise.

C．It is predicted.

D．It is deadly.

听力原文： In 1968, the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, had a problem. The city' s school system needed a new school building and teachers but did not have the money to pay for this multi million-dollar project.

City officials solved the problem in a unique way. They decided m use the many scientific and cultural institutions in the city as the classrooms. Experts who worked in the various institutions would be the teachers. About 100 institutions in Philadelphia -- public, private, and commercial -- helped the program.

The experiment in institutions in education, known as the Parkway Program, began in February 1969. John Bremer, an Englishman and an innovator in the field of education, planned the program and became its director.

The Program has grown in size from 142 to 500 high school students and is so popular that thousands of applicants are denied places each year. The program gives a freedom to high school education never known before. Besides basic courses required for a diploma -- languages, history, science -- students may choose from more than one hundred other courses. Any subject will be offered if an instructor can be found. Every group of 15 boys and girls belongs to a "tutorial group", led by a teacher and one assistant. Students in the Program say that school is no longer a place but an interesting activity.

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A．City officials.

B．Experts in various institutions.

C．Newly-graduated university students.

D．Some famous scientists.

system needed a new school building and teachers but did not have the money to pay for this multi-million-dollar project.

City officials solved the problem in a unique way. They decided to use the many scientific mad cultural institutions in the city as the classrooms. Experts who worked in the various institutions would be the teachers. About 100 institutions in Philadelphia — public, private, and commercial — helped the program.

The experiment in institutions in education, known as the Parkway Program, began in February 1969. John Bremer, an Englishman and an innovator in the field of education, planned the program and became its director.

The Program has grown in size from 142 to 500 high school students end is so popular that thousands of applicants are denied places each year. The program gives a freedom to high school education never known before. Besides basic courses required for a diploma — languages, history, science — students may choose from more than one hundred other courses. Any subject will be offered if an instructor can be found. Every group of 15 buys and girls belongs to a "tutorial group", led by a teacher and one assistant. Students in the Program say that school is no longer a place but an interesting activity.

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A．City officials.

B．Newly-graduated university students.

C．Experts in various institutions.

D．Some famous scientists.