2021秋九年级英语上册 Module 5 Museums拓展阅读三（新版）外研版 (2).doc

1、The British Museum is the biggest museum in the world. Inside, you feel smaller than usual. There are many thingsto see. The story of the British Museum goes back three hundred years to one unusual man, Sir Hans Sloane, a doctor to King George. The doctor collected books, drawings, clothes, money, a

2、nimals, 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 Georgegave his library, and the museum started to grow. The British Museum opened in 1759, six years after Sir Hans S

3、loane died. At first the museum was only open three days a week and only ten people could enter in an hour. There wasnt much 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 from Egypt. King Geo

4、rge 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 kilometres of new shelves every year and there are about two million visitors every year.