Many famous museums throughout the world can offer you good chances to admire art. Washington, D.C has the National Gallery of Art，Paris has the Louver, London, the British Museum. Florida International University(FIU) in Miami also shows art for people to see. And it does so without a building, or even a wall for its drawings and paintings.
FIU has opened what it says is the first computer art museum in the United States. You don’t have to visit the University to see the art. What you need is just a computer linked to a telephone. That’s enough.
You can call the telephone number of a University computer and connect your own computer to it. All of the art is stored in the school computer. It is computer art, produced electronically by artists on their own computers. In only a few minutes, your computer can receive and copy all the pictures and drawings.
Robert Shostak is director of the new computer museum. He says he started the museum because computer artists had no place to show their work.
A computer artist could only record his pictures electronically and send the records, or floppy discs, to others to see on their computers. He could also put his pictures on paper. But to print good pictures on paper, the computer artist will have to need a very expensive laser printer.
Robert Shostak says the electronic museum is mostly for art or computer students at schools and universities. Many of the pictures in the museum are made by students. Mr Shostak said the FIU museum will make computer art more fun for computer artists because more people can see it. He says artists enjoy their work much more if they have an audience. And the great number of home computers in America could mean a huge audience for the electronic museum.
小题1:The main purpose of this text is to give information about____________.
A．famous museums throughout the world
B．an electronic art museum in Miami, U.S.A
C．art exhibitions in Florida International University
D．the latest development in computer art in the USA小题2:To see the art in FIU museum, which of the following should you have at first?
A．some records or floppy discs
B．a computer and a printer
C．your own pictures and drawings
D．a computer connected by telephone line小题3:_________ are stored in the electronic museum in FIU.
A．Paintings drawn by computer
B．Different styles of paintings
C．Some very traditional paintings
D．Drawings done by students of FIU小题4:The museum was started when ___________.
A．FIU wanted to encourage computer scientists
B．Robert Shostak decided to help computer artists
C．art students needed a place to show their works
D．computer scientists wanted to do something about art小题5:The words “an audience” in the last paragraph refers to ___________.
A．art students
B．computer owners
C．exhibits in the museum
D．those who will enjoy art
