题目

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.According to a nannual report by France government auditors,the Louvreis ( )A | in disorderB | in good conditionC | ruined by its staffD | full of junk

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. According to a nannual report by France government auditors,the Louvreis ( ) A | in disorder B | in good condition C | ruined by its staff D | full of junk

题目解答

答案

我们来逐步分析这道题：

题目原文回顾：

> According to a nannual report by France government auditors, the Louvre is ( )

选项为：

A. in disorder
B. in good condition
C. ruined by its staff
D. full of junk

解题思路分析：

我们需要根据文章内容，判断卢浮宫目前的状况，然后从四个选项中选出最符合文章描述的一个。

第一步：找出文章的主要信息

文章主要讲的是法国政府审计员发布的年度报告，批评卢浮宫的管理问题。以下是文章中的关键点：

  1. 效率低下、管理混乱、员工每天喝咖啡长达2-3小时：说明员工工作效率低下，管理不善。
  2. 卢浮宫不知道自己有多少幅画、多少员工、员工的工作时间：说明内部管理混乱，缺乏基本的数据统计。
  3. 2000年有600万游客，但售票和信息台存在“非常令人担忧的缺陷”：说明游客体验差。
  4. 25%的展览厅因安保人员不足而关闭：说明展览空间受限，管理不到位。
  5. 安保人员效率低下，甚至有员工在被解雇后两年仍未归还钥匙、搬出住房：说明员工纪律松散，管理混乱。
  6. 卢浮宫甚至没有完整清点所有藏品：说明管理严重失职。

第二步：分析选项

A. in disorder（处于混乱状态）
→ 文章多次提到管理混乱、效率低下、员工行为失当、缺乏基本统计数据等，完全符合“in disorder”的含义。

B. in good condition（状况良好）
→ 明显与文章内容相悖，文章指出很多问题，所以这个选项错误。

C. ruined by its staff（被员工毁了）
→ 虽然文章确实批评了员工的行为（如长时间喝咖啡、效率低、安保问题），但“ruined by its staff”语气过于强烈，且文章没有说员工“毁了”卢浮宫，而是说管理混乱和制度问题。因此这个选项过于绝对，不是最佳答案。

D. full of junk（堆满垃圾）
→ 文章没有提到卢浮宫“堆满垃圾”或类似内容，因此这个选项是错误的。

第三步：得出结论

综合以上分析，最符合文章内容的选项是：

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解析

本题考查对文章内容的理解和推理能力。解题思路是先梳理文章中关于卢卢浮宫的描述，提取关键信息，再再将各选项与这些信息进行逐一对比分析。

  1. 提取文章关键信息：
    • 文章指出卢浮宫存在效率低下、管理混乱的问题，如员工每天有2 - 3小时的咖啡休息时间。
    • 卢浮宫不清楚自身藏品数量、员工数量以及员工工作时长，说明内部管理缺乏基本的数据统计。
    • 2000年有600万游客，但售票和信息台存在“非常令人担忧的缺陷”，影响游客体验。
    • 25%的展览厅因安保人员不足而关闭，展览空间受限。
    • 安保人员效率低下，如1998年一幅画被盗，安保人员被解雇后两年仍未归还钥匙和搬出住房。
    • 卢浮宫还未完成藏品的完整清点。
  2. 分析各选项：
    • A选项：“in disorder”（处于混乱状态），文章中提到的管理混乱、员工行为失当、缺乏基本统计数据等情况，都符合“in disorder的含义，所以A选项正确。
    • B选项“in good condition”（状况良好），与文章中描述的卢浮宫存在诸多问题的内容相悖，所以B选项错误。
    • C选项“ruined by its staff”（被员工毁了），虽然文章批评了员工的行为，但“ruined by its staff”语气过于强烈，文章只是说管理混乱和制度问题，并没有说员工毁了卢浮宫，所以C选项不是最佳答案。
    • D选项“full of junk”（堆满垃圾），文章中并没有提到卢浮宫“堆满垃圾”或类似内容，所以D选项错误。