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The British Museum is one of the biggest museums in the world. Inside, you feel smaller than usual because there are so many things to see.
The story of the British Museum goes hack about three hundred years to one unusual man, Sir Hans Sloane, a doctor. The doctor collected books, drawings, clothes, money, animals, flowers and other things from all over the world. The doctor wanted everything to stay together when he died, so that people could come and have a look. He bequeathed his collections to King George II for the country. So the British Museum began. King George II gave away his library, and the museum started to grow.
The British Museum opened in 1759, six years after Sir Huns Sloane died. At first the museum was only open three days a week and only ten people could enter for an hour. There wasn't much time to see things. Visitors had to run through the rooms.
By about 1800, things began to get better. Wonderful statues which were three thousand years old arrived from Egypt. King George IV sold all his books to the museum secretly. A hundred years ago not only old books but also new ones arrived at the museum, and more people came to read them. Since then many famous men have written and studied there. And the library of the museum is growing bigger and bigger. There are four kilometers of new shelves and about two million visitors every year.
【小题1】What was Sir Hans Sloane interested in________.
| A．Collecting all kinds of books. | B．Collecting all kinds of drawings. |
| C．Collecting all kinds of money. | D．Collecting all kinds of things. |
【小题2】What does the underlined word “bequeathed” in Paragraph 2 mean?
| A．handed out | B．put away | C．gave away | D．sold out |
【小题3】When did Sir Hans Sloane die?
| A．In 1753. | B．In1759. | C．In1765. | D．In1800. |
【小题4】Why did the visitors have to run through the museum at first?
| A．Because there were only several things to see. |
| B．Because the museum was the biggest one in the world. |
| C．Because they were not interested in the things in it. |
| D．Because they had only one hour to see all the things in it. |
【小题5】What is the passage mainly about?
| A．Sir Hans Sloane. | B．King George Ⅱ. |
| C．The history of British Museum. | D．The books in the museum. |
