学生啦：课时作业（七）Unit 3 Section I Welcome to the unitReadingI阅读理解Some people call it a travelling museum.Others refer to it as a living or an open-air museum.Built in Brazil to honour Columbus'first voyage to the New World,the Nin"a,a Columbus-erareplica (of a ship,provides visitors with an accurate visual of the size and sailingequipment of Columbus'favourite ship from over 500 years ago.I joined the crew of the Nin"a in Gulf Shores,Alabama,in February,2013.As part of aresearch project sponsored by my university,my goal was to document my days aboard the ship ina blog.I quickly realized that I gained the most valuable insights when I observed or gave tours toschool-age children.The field-trip tour of the Nin'a is hands-on leaming at its best.In thissetting,.students could touch the line,pass around a ballast stone(压舱石)，and move theextremely large tiller that controlled the direction of the ships in Columbus'days.Theysoon came to understand the labour involved in sailing the ship back in his time.I was pleasedto see the students become active participants in their leaming process.The Nin'a is not the only travelling museum that provides such field trips.A visitto Jamestown Settlement,for example,allows visitors to board three models of the ships thatbrought the first settlers from England to Virginia in the early 1,600s.Historical guides,dressedin period costumes,give tours of the Susan Constant,Godspeed,and Discovery.Theseguides often portray a character that lived and worked during that period.Students touring theseships are encouraged to interact with the guides in order to better understand the daily life in thepast.My experience on the Nin'a helps testify (my long-held belief that students stayinterested,ask better questions,and engage in higher-order thinking tasks when they are activelyabsorbed in the leaming process.The students who boarded the Nin'a came as passive leamersThey left as bold explorers.1.What occupation is the author engaged in?A.Shipping.B.Education.C.Ecological tourism.D.Museum administration.2.What can we learn about the Nin a introduced in the passage?A.She is a replica of a ship that Columbus built in Brazil.B.She is always crowded with foreign tourists during holidays.C.She is the boat Columbus sailed in his voyage to the New World.D.She displays what Columbus'favourite ship was like and how it operated.3.What is the third paragraph mainly about?A.Guidelines for visitors on the ships.C.Duties of the guides in the British museums.