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 ba ck three hundred years to one unusual man, sir hans sloane, a doctor of king george ii. 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 george ii gave his library, and the museum started to grow.
The british museum opened in 1759, six years after sir hans sloane die d at first the museum was only open three days a week and only ten people could enter it in an hour. There wasn.t mu ch time to see things. Visitors had to run through the rooms.
By about 1800, things began to get better. Wonderful statues, three thousand years old, arrived at from egypt. 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 about two million visitors every year.
1. Sir hans sloane was 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
2. When you go inside the british museum, you feel smaller than usual be cause ______.
A. the museum is empty
B. the museum is very big
C. there are few things in it
D. you are too small
3. Sir hans sloane died ______.
A in 1753
B. in 1765
C. in 1800
D. in 1759
4. At first, the visitors had to run through the museum be cause ______.
A. the museum was the biggest one in the world
B. they were not interested in the things in it
C. they had only one hour to see all the things in it
D. there were only a few things to see
5. The passage is mainly about ______.
A. george ii
B. sir hans sloane
C. the books of the museum
D. the history of the british museum
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