新托福作文天天练：第十二期

本期话题:

Many people visit museums when they travel to new places. Why do you think people visit
museums? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

参考范文:

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When people travel to new places, they often choose the local museums as a must-see place.
Sometimes the museums are even more attractive than the most famous place of interest. This
phenomenon can be easily explained if the function of museums is taken into account. As we
have known, museums can help us know the history, the customs and the most representative
products of that place.
从功能入手。三方面：

Different place has different history. And the most convenient way to know the history is to visit
the local museum. Last year when I traveled to Xi’an, an old city, I went to the history museum to
explore the course of its development. With the background knowledge provided by the museum,
I found that it was easier for me to understand the city. So the museum can clear away the barriers
between tourists and the city by making them familiar with its history.
了解历史。举例：西安之行

To a tourist, the most attractive part of a place is usually its customs, which can be demonstrated by the local museum.In the Beijing custom museum, the real life of typical Beijingers is vividly shown. A tourist can satisfy his curiosity by knowing the origin and characteristics of the quart-yard, the most classical building in Beijing. With the help of museums, tourists can have a deeper understanding of the life of local people.
感受文化。举例：北京民俗博物馆

Every place has its own representative products, which are usually handcrafts. Tourists can have
the access to a wonderful show of these handcrafts in the local museum. For example, in Jingde
town, the most famous pottery-making（earthenware pots, etc made by hand 陶器） place in China, tourists can be excited by the beautiful
pottery products and the complicated making process exhibited in the pottery museum. It will be a
pity for a tourist not to experience the wonderful show of the local products in the museum.
代表产品。举例：手工

In a word, museums serve as a bridge between tourists and the place they travel to. That is why
people are so eager to visit museums when they travel to new places.
桥梁作用

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Museums are presents the whole world left to us, with which we can learn lots of things we did
not previously know, be aware of what has happened in the past as well as what is going to
happen in the future, or gain self-understanding. Personally, among countless factors which
influence the reason for visiting museums, there are three conspicuous aspects as follows.
很文学的一段。数不尽的原因中略谈几点。

The main reason for my propensity（ A propensity to do something or a propensity for something is a natural tendency that you have to behave in a particular way. 倾向; 习性）for visiting museums is that more about local histories can be
known in this way. Nowadays, many museums are mainly operating for responsibilities to collect,
preserve（If you preserve a situation or condition, you make sure that it remains as it is, and does not change or end. ） historic treasures and exhibit fine art and antiquities（Antiquities are things such as buildings, statues, or coins that were made in ancient times and have survived to the present day. [pl]古迹）. For instance, the National Museum
of Chinese History, the first of these kinds to be established（If someone establishes something such as an organization, a type of activity, or a set of rules, they create it or introduce it in such a way that it is likely to last for a long time. ） in China has over 300,000 items,
including more than 2,000 first-grade pieces items, 100,000 photographs of cultural relics and
over 200,000 professional books. As you walk around the General Chinese History exhibition
rooms, looking at the cultural relics and imagining the past, you may feel that you are traveling
along a path spanning（If something spans a long period of time, it lasts throughout that period of time or relates to that whole period of time. ） the course of Chinese history.
助于了解历史

Another reason can be seen by every person is that you can see something rare so much as unique
in museums. For example, Emperor QinShihuang, the first emperor in Chinese history, is known
as the Emperor Qin’s Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses. Today, the Emperor Qin's Terra-cotta
Museum, "the eighth Wonder of the world", is not only a treasure house where the tourists can
learn histories, but also a main scenic（If a place has scenic beauty, its scenery is attractive.） spot of China. The vivid pottery figures, colorful uniforms
and various weapons, acclaimed as the peak of perfection, are unique forever.
奇观，见函

Furthermore, visiting museums can enrich our knowledge about various sides, such as preventive（Preventive actions are intended to help prevent things such as disease or crime. 预防）
measures（ preventive measures 预防性措施. ）of a disease, the reason of earthquake, man’s region, the latest development of the laser
and so on. The inventive genius may be inspired in someone by making exhibits, because
knowledge is acquired more easily in this way than being taught in class.
增加知识，是学习更灵活有效的方式

Still, people might list other reasons to explain why they always visit museums while traveling to
new places, but the three points I have explored in the above discussion, I believe, are most
relevant（Something that is relevant to a situation or person is important or significant in that situation or to that person.） to the issue under discussion.

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Many people visit museums when they travel to new places. By visiting museums, one can learn
as much as possible about those places where one visit in a shout time.
方便了解

First of all, one can learn about the history of the places in museums. Today, almost every town in
the world has realized the importance to set up their own museums to exhibit historic items which
belong to their past. When we visit a new place, we can get almost everything we need about its
history in the museums. Last summer vacation, I and several classmates traveled to the city of
Taian. At the foot of Mount Tai located a museum about General Feng Yuxiang. After visiting it,
we knew a lot about Mr. Feng and what he did to the local people. He was respected by there
people, and so did us.
历史

Second, visiting museums gives information about local culture. After a long exhausting journey,
what a good thing to sit in the museum theatre watching a performance about local culture. When
we travel to a new place, especially for a limited time when you cannot go everywhere, so you
can get as much information as possible about local culture by visiting museums.
文化

What is more, visiting museums gives us a good chance to make new friends. Surely, there are a
lot of people will visit museums like us. We can chat with them about what we see and what we
hear. At the end of visiting, we sit together to have a cup of coffee and we become good friends.
By exchanging telephone number, we can also keep in touch with each other late. What a good
experience!
交朋友

In a word, more and more people visit museums when they travel to new places because they
want to get more pleasure from their journey.
使旅途更愉快