Inefficiency, mismanagement and three-hour coffee breaks are ruining the Louvre (卢浮宫) experience for millions of visitors, according to an annual report by France's government auditors(审计员). The famed museum, home of the Mona Lisa, does not know how many paintings it has, how many staff it employs, or how much time they spend on the job, the report says. It blames the mess on the fact that two-thirds of the 1,800 staff are civil servants. The six million people who visited the museum in 2000, most of them foreign tourists, had first to overcome "very worrying deficiencies" at the ticket and information counters, the report says, noting that the staff routinely take coffee breaks totaling between 2 and 3 hours a day. Visitors are unlikely to see the whole museum, not just because it is so enormous, but because it is never fully open. Up to 25% of the exhibition rooms were closed to the public in 2000 because of a shortage of security staff. Those security staff that are on duty are more of a liability(阻碍) than an asset, the report says: a security guard was sacked(解雇) when a Corot painting was stolen in 1998, but it took him more than two years to return his keys and move out of the rent-free flat the museum had given him. Nor, if a work does get stolen, is the Louvre necessarily likely to know about it. It has still not got around to making a complete inventory of themIt can be concluded from the passage thatA | visitors are fascinated by the Mona LisaB | some masterpieces were stolen from the Louvre because of a shortage of security guardsC | visitors are unlikely to see the whole museum because of its mismanagement
Inefficiency, mismanagement and three-hour coffee breaks are ruining the Louvre (卢浮宫) experience for millions of visitors, according to an annual report by France's government auditors(审计员). The famed museum, home of the Mona Lisa, does not know how many paintings it has, how many staff it employs, or how much time they spend on the job, the report says. It blames the mess on the fact that two-thirds of the 1,800 staff are civil servants. The six million people who visited the museum in 2000, most of them foreign tourists, had first to overcome "very worrying deficiencies" at the ticket and information counters, the report says, noting that the staff routinely take coffee breaks totaling between 2 and 3 hours a day. Visitors are unlikely to see the whole museum, not just because it is so enormous, but because it is never fully open. Up to 25% of the exhibition rooms were closed to the public in 2000 because of a shortage of security staff. Those security staff that are on duty are more of a liability(阻碍) than an asset, the report says: a security guard was sacked(解雇) when a Corot painting was stolen in 1998, but it took him more than two years to return his keys and move out of the rent-free flat the museum had given him. Nor, if a work does get stolen, is the Louvre necessarily likely to know about it. It has still not got around to making a complete inventory of them It can be concluded from the passage that A | visitors are fascinated by the Mona Lisa B | some masterpieces were stolen from the Louvre because of a shortage of security guards C | visitors are unlikely to see the whole museum because of its mismanagement
题目解答
答案
我们来逐句分析这段文字,并从中推导出正确答案。
原文分析:
> "Inefficiency, mismanagement and three-hour coffee breaks are ruining the Louvre experience for millions of visitors..."
这句话指出卢浮宫存在效率低下、管理混乱和员工长时间喝咖啡等问题,影响了游客的体验。
> "The famed museum, home of the Mona Lisa, does not know how many paintings it has..."
说明卢浮宫连自己有多少藏品都搞不清楚,说明管理非常混乱。
> "Two-thirds of the 1,800 staff are civil servants."
说明员工中很多人是公务员,这可能意味着工作态度不够积极。
> "Six million people who visited the museum in 2000... had to overcome 'very worrying deficiencies' at the ticket and information counters..."
游客在购票和咨询时遇到严重问题,进一步说明管理不善。
> "Staff routinely take coffee breaks totaling between 2 and 3 hours a day."
员工每天花2-3小时喝咖啡,说明效率极低。
> "Up to 25% of the exhibition rooms were closed to the public in 2000 because of a shortage of security staff."
由于安保人员不足,25%的展厅关闭,说明安保资源不足。
> "A security guard was sacked when a Corot painting was stolen in 1998..."
1998年一幅画被盗,说明确实发生了盗窃事件。
> "It has still not got around to making a complete inventory of them."
说明连藏品清单都没有整理好,管理极其混乱。
选项分析:
A | visitors are fascinated by the Mona Lisa
(游客对蒙娜丽莎着迷)
原文中确实提到了蒙娜丽莎,但并没有提到游客“着迷”,只是说它是卢浮宫的藏品之一。这个选项属于过度推断,不能从文中直接得出。
B | some masterpieces were stolen from the Louvre because of a shortage of security guards
(由于安保人员不足,一些杰作从卢浮宫被盗)
原文中提到:
- 1998年一幅Corot画作被盗;
- 安保人员不足导致25%的展厅关闭;
- 但并没有明确说这幅画被盗是因为安保人员不足,虽然两者都提到了,但没有因果关系的直接说明。
所以这个选项属于可能但未被证实的推断,不能直接从文中得出。
C | visitors are unlikely to see the whole museum because of its mismanagement
(由于管理不善,游客不太可能看到整个博物馆)
原文中明确提到:
- 博物馆非常大;
- 但从未完全开放;
- 25%的展厅因安保人员不足而关闭;
- 员工效率低下,管理混乱。
这些都说明管理不善导致游客无法看到全部展览。
因此,这个选项是可以从文中直接得出的结论。
✅ 正确答案:
$\boxed{C}$
解析
本题考查对文章内容的理解和推理能力。解题思路是先对文章整体内容进行分析,梳理出文章所描述的卢浮宫存在的各种问题,然后再逐一分析每个选项,判断选项是否能从文章中直接得出。
文章内容分析
文章指出卢浮宫存在效率低下、管理混乱等问题,具体表现为:不知道自己有多少藏品、员工工作态度不积极、游客在购票和咨询时遇到严重问题、员工每天花大量时间喝咖啡、展厅因安保人员不足而关闭、发生盗窃事件且管理混乱连藏品清单都没整理好。
选项分析
- A选项:文章中提到了蒙娜丽莎,但并没有提到游客“着迷”,只是说它是卢浮宫的藏品之一。所以这个选项属于过度推断,不能从文中直接得出。
- B选项:文章中提到了1998年一幅Corot画作被盗以及安保人员不足导致25%的展厅关闭,但并没有明确说这幅画被盗是因为安保人员不足,虽然两者都提到了,但没有因果关系的直接说明。所以这个选项属于可能但未被证实的推断,不能直接从文中得出。
- C选项:文章中明确提到博物馆非常大,但从未完全开放,25%的展厅因安保人员不足而关闭,员工效率低下,管理混乱。这些都说明管理不善导致游客无法看到全部展览。所以这个选项是可以从文中直接得出的结论。