She always works overtime as she has a large family to _____ .A.provideB.provide with
She always works overtime as she has a large family to _____ .
A.provide
B.provide with
C.be provided
D.provide for
She always works overtime as she has a large family to _____ .
A.provide
B.provide with
C.be provided
D.provide for
第1题
When Louis Nevelson works, she _________
A. can carve anything into a great piece of artistic work
B. refuses to make sculpture work for churches
C. doesn't confine her talents into any specific categories
D. always has her religious belief in mind
第2题
第3题
When, If Ever, Can Museums Sell Their Works?
The director of the art-rich yet cash-poor National Academy Museum in New York expected strong opposition when its board decided to sell two Hudson River School paintings for around $15 million.
The director, Carmine Branagan, had already approached leaders of two groups to which the academy belonged about the prospect. She knew that both the American Association of Museums (AAM) and Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) had firm policies against museums' selling off artworks because of financial hardship and were not going to make an exception.
Even so, she said, she was not prepared for the directors group's immediate response to the sale. In an e-mail message on Dec. 5 to its 190 members, it condemned the academy, founded in 1825, for "breaching one of the most basic and important AAMD's principles" and called on members "to suspend any loans of works of art to and any collaboration on exhibitions with the National Academy."
Branagan, who had by that time withdrawn her membership from both groups, said she "was shocked by the tone of the letter, like we had committed some crimes." She called the withdrawal of loans "a death knell (丧钟声)" for the museum, adding, "What the AAMD have done is basically shoot us while we're wounded."
Beyond shaping the fate of any one museum, this exchange has sparked larger questions over a principle that has long seemed sacred. Why, several experts ask, is it so wrong for a museum to sell art from its collection to raise badly-needed funds and now that many institutions are facing financial hardship, should the ban on selling art to cover operating costs be eased?
Lending urgency to the discussion are the efforts of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, which has one of the world's best collections of contemporary art but whose funds is said to have shriveled(萎缩) to $6 million from more than $40 million over the last nine years. Wouldn't it be preferable, some people asked this month, to sell a Mark Rothko painting or a couple of Robert Rauschenberg's legendary "combines" -- the museum owns 11 -- than to risk closing its doors. Finally, the museum announced $30 million donations by the billionaire Eli Broad last week that would prevent the sales of any artworks.
Yet defenders of the prohibition warn that such sales can irreparably (不能挽回地) damage an institution. "Selling an object is a knee-jerk (下意识的)act, and it undermines core principles of a museum," said Michael Conforti, president of the directors' association and director of the Clark Art Institute in Williams-town, Massachusetts. "There are always other options."
The sale of artwork from a museum's permanent collection, known as deaccessioning(博物馆收藏品等出售), is not illegal in the United States, provided that any terms accompanying the original donation of artwork are respected. In Europe, by contrast, many museums are state-financed and prevented by national law from deaccessioning.
But under the code of ethics of the American Association of Museums, the proceeds should be "used only for the acquisition, preservation, protection or care of collections." The code of the Association of Art Museum Directors is even stricter, specifying that funds should not be used "for purposes other than acquisitions of works of art for the collection."
Dorm Zaretsky, a New York lawyer who specializes in art cases, has sympathized with the National Academy, asking why a museum can sell art to buy more art but not to cover overhead costs or a much-needed education center. "Why should we automatically assume that buying art always justifies a deaccessioning, but that no other use of proceeds -- no matter how important to an institution's mission--ever can" he wrote.
Even Patty Gerstenblith, a law professor at DePaul University in Chicago kno
A.abundant in artworks
B.expecting strong resistance
C.abundant in money
D.selling three paintings
第4题
_________________(无论多么频繁地演奏), the works of Beethoven always attract large audiences.
第5题
A. Because she works for a museum.
B. Because she's a Lincoln scholar.
C. Because she does it as a hobby.
D. Because she teaches a course on currency exchange.
第6题
A.full-time
B.part-time
C.good-paid
D.excited
第7题
A) performing
B) performed
C) to be performed
D) being performed
第8题
A. Because she is Professor Bill's daughter.
B. Because she works part-time as Professor Bill' s secretary.
C. Because she used to do the job herself.
D. Because she just came out of an interview for the job.
第9题
A.on an average working day.
B.on Sundays.
C.when she is on vacation.
D.when she works on the night shift.
第10题
A.Because she works for a museum.
B.Because shes a Lincoln scholar.
C.Because she does it as a hobby.
D.Because she teaches a course on currency exchange.
第11题
Sources at the Beijing People's Political Consultative Conference said resistance to home service work is melting away from minds of the city's laid-off workers.
The Conference suggested the establishment of municipal centers which supervise property management, household mending and installation, and house keeping services.
Modern city life is creating a need for industrialization home services. This will create job opportunities for laid-off workers, said vice director of the Social Judicial Committee of the Conference.
Beijing residents have long desired a home service industry. The demand is expected to drive new economic growth. There are few high quality home help services in Beijing and customers are always complaining.
In the past, few laid-off workers in Beijing desired to work as home, helpers, jobs largely taken by young women from the countryside. At the same time, some city residents have not felt safe trusting rural girls with modem household machines or with their small children. Many people would pay more for reliable house keepers who are more familiar with city life, but they have had no way of getting one, even though the city is home to thousands of laid-off workers.
By the end of June this year, there were 30,600 jobless workers in the city. Most of them are women in their 40' s, who are not blessed with particular skills and who have had their work ethics shaped by the planned economy. Many of them were at a loss when they first realized they had lost their jobs and a way of life they had got used to for decades.
They never imagined being laid-off by state-owned enterprises; they never considered other kinds of employment. For them, the private sector meant taking risks; housekeeping implied lower social status. Gao Yunfang, 44, is a pioneer who is breaking the ice. She sells the Beijing Morning Post in the morning, and works at two households in the afternoon. She earns 1,000 yuan per month. So she no longer worries about her daughter's tuition at a university in Shanghai.
What is talked about in the passage?
A.Home service.
B.Modem city life.
C.Laid-off workers.
D.Social status.