问题

中国劳动人民发明造纸术,最早是在

A.春秋时期

B.战国时期

C.西汉时期

D.东汉时期

答案

答案:C

造纸术是汉朝劳动人民发明的。蔡伦只是在此基础上改进了造纸术,从而推动了纸的应用。所以不能说蔡伦发明了造纸术,而应说改进. 造纸术最早是由西汉时期的劳动人民发明的,东汉蔡伦改进了造纸术.选C

阅读理解

阅读理解。

     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 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 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 them 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 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 because ______.

A. the museum is empty      

B. the museum is very big

C. there are too many things in it  

D. you are too small

3. Sir Hans Sloane died ______.

A. in 1753  

B. in 1759  

C. in 1765  

D. in 1800

4. At first, the visitors had to run through the museum because ______.

A. there are only several things to see              

B. the museum was the biggest one in the world

C. they were not interested in the things in it        

D. they had only one hour to see all the things in it

5. The passage is mainly about ______.

A. Sir Hans Sloane             

B. George II    

C. the history of British Museum  

D. the books in the museum              

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