The British Museum is the biggest museum in the world．Inside，you feel smaller than usual．There are many things to see．
The story of the British Museum goes back three hundred years to one unusual man，Sir Hans Sloane，doctor to King GeorgeⅡ．The doctor collected books，drawings，clothes，money，animals，flowers，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．The British Museum began．King GeorgeⅡgave his library，and the museum started to grow．
The British Museum opened in 1759，six years after Sir Hans Sloane died．At first the museum was only open three days a week and only ten people could enter in an hour．There wasn't much time to see things．Visitors had to run though the rooms．
By about 1800，things began to get better．Wonderful statues，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 is growing faster and faster．There are four kilometers of new shelves every year and there are about two million visitors every year．
（1）Sir Hans Sloane was interested inDD．
A．collecting all kinds of books
B．collecting all kinds of drawings
C．collecting all kinds of money
D．collecting all kinds of things
（2）When you go inside the British Museum，you feel smaller than usual becauseBB．
A．the museum is empty
B．the museum is too big
C．there are too many things in it
D．you are too small
（3）Sir Hans Sloane diedAA．
A．in 1753
B．in 1759
C．in 1765
D．in 1800
（4）The passage is mainly aboutCC．
A．Sir Hans Sloane
B．GeorgeⅡ
C．the history of British Museum
D．the books in the museum
【答案】D；B；A；C
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