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Time was when a visit to a museum included shopping for a postcard or an exhibition catalogue. Nowadays, most art institutions have expanded their wares to include home furnishings, jewelry, clothing, toys and books. While it might enhance the museum experience, selling all those products can become a distraction for administrators, taking away time and money from their primary business: exhibiting works of art. If that weren’t trouble enough, retail operations, intended to supplement museum admissions, don’t always end up in the black.
Last year, to try to solve the problem of doing art and commerce profitably, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (MFA) became one of the first museums in the country to spin off the management of its retail operations into a for-profit company, Museum Enterprise Partners Inc. (MEP). Owned by the MFA and senior management, MEP replaced the museum’s 30-year-old Enterprise division and the MFA became its first client. From its
A. The former is a for-profit company while the latter is a museum.
B. Both are run by the Boston city council and sponsored by the government.
C. The latter used to have 100 000-square-foot warehouse in Avon.

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Time was when a visit to a museum included shopping for a postcard or an exhibition catalogue. Nowadays, most art institutions have expanded their wares to include home furnishings, jewelry, clothing, toys and books. While it might enhance the museum experience, selling all those products can become a distraction for administrators, taking away time and money from their primary business: exhibiting works of art. If that weren’t trouble enough, retail operations, intended to supplement museum admissions, don’t always end up in the black.
Last year, to try to solve the problem of doing art and commerce profitably, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (MFA) became one of the first museums in the country to spin off the management of its retail operations into a for-profit company, Museum Enterprise Partners Inc. (MEP). Owned by the MFA and senior management, MEP replaced the museum’s 30-year-old Enterprise division and the MFA became its first client. From its
A. Selling home furnishings.
B. Showing works of art.
C. Exhibiting books and toys.

[简答题]Museum When was the last time you visited a museum

[简答题]Museum When was the last time you visited a museum

[简答题]Museum Do you often visit a museum

[填空题]Childhood is the time when there are few responsibilities to make life (11) . if a child has good (12) , he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything (13) . What’s more, life is always giving new things to the child — things that have (14) their interest for older people because they are too well-known. But a child has his (15) : he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is repeatedly being told not to do something, or being punished for what he has wrongly done.

[单项选择]There was a time when women were considered smart if they played dumb to a get a man, and women who went to college were more interested in getting a "Mrs. degree" than a bachelor’s. Even today, it’s not unusual for a woman to get whispered and unsolicited counsel from her grandmother that an advanced degree could hurt her in the marriage market. Despite the fact that more women than men now attend college, the idea that smart women finish last in love seems to hang on and on.
"There were so many misperceptions out there about education and marriage that I decided to sort out the facts," said economist Betsey Stevenson, an assistant professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. So along with Wharton colleague Adam Isen, Stevenson crunched national marriage data from 1950 to 2008 and found that the marriage penalty women once paid for being well educated has largely disappeared. "Marriage rates in the U.S. for college-educated women have risen enormously since
A. Marriage rates varied greatly among women in the 1950s.
B. College graduates feel no need to hide their strengths any more.
C. Education is still considered an obstacle to women’s marriage.
D. The more education women receive, the easier they can get marrie