1、2020年新目標(biāo)八年級下冊Unit9 拓展閱讀訓(xùn)練 擴(kuò)寬視野，啟迪心智 韓老師 A The British museum is one of the biggest museum in the world. It is the oldest museum in Europe. It was opened in 1759. Sir Hans Sloan who lived in London at that time was a great collector. He collected everything: clothes, books, pictures, stones and ancie

2、nt things. But he died in 1753 and the King bought his collection for 20,000. That was the beginning of the British museum. It is in Great Russell Square of London. There are more than thirteen million objects at the British Museum nowadays.You can visit the great Reading Room which is round in shap

3、e. The Reading Room is in the center of the museum. Many famous scientists and writers worked here. Among them are Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, Charles Darwin and many others.Nowadays, there are many wonderful collections in the British museum, from ancient Egyptian mummies to Greek and Ro

4、man art.Walking through the halls and rooms of the museum you can study two million years of world history and culture.If you are lucky to be a visitor, you should see The Lewis Chessmen. It is a large group of chess pieces carved from whale teeth in the 12th century. See the chess set in Room 40, o

5、n the Upper floor. It also advise you to visit Room 4 on the Ground Floor. Here you can see the huge head of an Egyptian pharaoh. In Room 24 on the Ground Floor you can see The Easter Island Statue, which was probably made in 1200.Every year more than 6 million visitors come to the museum. The entrance is