单选题 In a famous lab trial, a chimp named Sultan put two interlocking sticks together and pulled down a bunch of bananas hanging just out of arm"s reach. Nearly a century later, eager tourists have conducted their own version of the experiment. Equipped with the camera extender known as a selfie stick, they can now reach for flattering CinemaScope selfies wherever they go.
Art museums have watched this development nervously, fearing damage to their collections or to visitors, as users swing their sticks. Now they are taking action. One by one, museums across the United States have been imposing bans on using selfie sticks for photographs inside galleries (adding them to existing rules on umbrellas, rucksacks, tripods and monopods), yet another example of how controlling overcrowding has become part of the museum mission.
The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington prohibited the sticks this month, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston plans to impose a ban. In New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has been studying the matter for some time, has just decided that it, too, will forbid selfie sticks. "From now on, you will be asked quietly to put it away," said Sree Sreenivasan, the chief digital officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "It"s one thing to take a picture at arm"s length, but when it is three times arm"s length, you are invading someone else"s personal space."
The personal space of other visitors is just one problem. The artwork is another. "We do not want to have to put all the art under glass," said Deborah Ziska, the chief of public information at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, which has been quietly enforcing a ban on selfie sticks but is in the process of adding it formally to its printed guidelines for visitors.
Last but not least is the threat to the camera operator, intent on capturing the perfect shot and oblivious to the surroundings. "If people are not paying attention in the Temple of Dendur, they can end up in the water with the crocodile sculpture," Mr. Sreenivasan said. "We have so many balconies you could fall from, and stairs you can trip on."

单选题 In the first paragraph, the author suggests that ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 推断题。根据题干关键词定位到第一段。第一句句意为“一个名叫苏丹的黑猩猩把两根连锁棍连到一起，拉下了它的手够不到的一串香蕉”，接下来文章指出现在游客们使用自拍杆，不管走到哪儿都能随意自拍。所以，这两件物品对于各自使用者都非常有用。故D项“相机延长器对于人们是有用的，就像连锁棍对于苏丹一样有用”为正确答案。A项“苏丹像人类一样聪明”和B项“游客很容易自恋”属于过度推断，原文并没有体现。人们用自拍杆自拍，并不是为了获得够不到的东西，故C项错误。

单选题 Recently, the newly-added items that are banned by museums in the US are ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。根据题干关键词定位到第二段。第三句意为“美国的博物馆一个接一个发布禁令，禁止在博物馆内使用自拍杆(之前已遭禁止的物品包括伞、背包、三脚架和单脚架)”，所以自拍杆是最近遭到禁止的物品，故C项为正确答案。backpacks是文中rucksacks的近义词，umbrellas是原文复现，D项“相机的支撑设备”是原文tripods and monopods“三脚架和单脚架”的上义词，三项均不符合题干，故排除。

单选题 That US museums impose bans on using selfie sticks reveals that ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。根据题干关键词定位到第二段。末句的第二个分句用转折词yet连接，后面提到“……这再次表明，控制过度拥挤已经成为博物馆的任务之一”，故A项“博物馆里的游客过度拥挤”为正确答案。B项“现存的禁令不起作用”，C项“博物馆正在采取行动”，D项“人们喜欢挥舞自拍杆”均不符合文意。

单选题 According to Sree Sreenivasan, when selfie-stick users take pictures, they ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。根据题干关键词定位到第三、五段。Sree Sreenivasan出现在第三段后半部分，他说you will be asked quietly to put it away“我们将委婉地请求你把它(自拍杆)收起来”，此处的quietly指“委婉地、平和地”，故A项“(他们)应该保持安静”不符合文意。第三段末句中的three times指“(但是如果你伸出的东西是胳膊的)三倍”，而C项指的是“……(伸出胳膊)三次”，故排除。第五段最后也出现了Mr. Sreenivasan，此处他说明如果人们用自拍杆时不留神就会摔倒或被绊倒。故B项“(人们)可能容易分散注意力”为正确答案。D项是根据文中的名词balconies和stairs出的干扰项。

单选题 Selfie sticks have been banned in case of all the following problems EXCEPT ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。根据题干关键词定位到第四、五段。第四段“其他游客的私人空间只是其中一个问题，艺术品则是另一个问题”承上启下，涵盖了使用自拍杆带来的两个问题，A项和B项分别进行了概括。第五段首句是该段的中心句，指出带来的问题还有“自拍杆对使用者同样有威胁”，D项也是问题之一。C项“浪费纸质游客指南”文章没有提到，为正确答案。