One can't visit the British Museum unless he pays.

听力原文： The British Museum originated in the private collections of Sir Hans Sloane, which he left to the nation on his death in 1753. He was a rich physician who devoted his whole life to collecting curiosities from all parts of the world. These curiosities, together with George the Second's library, were reopened to the public as the British Museum in 1759. Many valuable legacies, especially private libraries and collections of art, have been left to the Museum at different times.

An entire reconstruction of the original building of the Museum was begun in 1828, and was finished in 1852. Within the building is a large hall, from which open out passages and stairways to the various departments.

The treasures of the British Museum are so numerous that even so large a building could not hold everything, and the scientific and zoological collections have been housed in a separate building in Kensington, known as the Natural History Museum. Within the British Museum itself house the archaeological departments and the library, consisting of more than two million printed volumes with thousands of manuscripts.

What is the origin of the British Museum?

A．The private collection of Sir Hans Sloane.

B．The royal library of George the Second.

C．The national library.

D．The National History Museum.

According to the passage, a new Enlightenment Gallery was held in British Museum to

A．celebrate the completion of the new galleries.

B．show the development of the museum.

C．honor the role museums had played in various aspects.

D．exhibit some 17th century botanical specimens.

to London, and visit the British Museum and some 78. _______

What is the purpose of the final sentence of the passage?

A．To express pride in the cultural treasures of Athens

B．To refute the argument that more people can see the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum than at the Acropolis

C．To comment on the relative number of tourists at two of Europe's most famous tourist attractions

D．To express concern that the large number of tourists on the Acropolis will damage the Elgin Marbles, should they be returned

E．To provide an appropriate end to a rousing debate

The British government has decided to wipe out the obesity epidemic through a novel strategy-by offering fat people cash incentives. 1. According to the latest measure, employers will be urged to set up competitions with money, vouchers and other rewards for people who renounce junk food in favor of healthy eating and living. And those who will shed the maximum amount of pounds will earn the biggest prizes,reports the Telegraph. One competition,called The Biggest Loser,has a 130-pounds gift in store for the participant who loses the most weight in eight weeks. 2. The announcement comes after experts estimated that most of the population in Britain would be obese by 2050 unless urgent action is taken and the related rise in ill health would cost the National Health Service 50 billion pounds a year. According to ministers,giving people incentives to fight the flab will help avoid larger costs associated with treating cancer, heart disease and diabetes caused by obesity. The government said that it wants to make Britain the first major nation to quash the rising tide of obe-sity. And the milestone strategy-Healthy Weight,Healthy Lives-is their solution to the problem. The strategy will feature a series of projects run through a Well@work scheme led by British Heart Foundation, which will offer rewards to workers who lose weight. 3. There will also be a "Walking into Health"campaign, aiming to get a third of the population in England walking an extra thousand steps-around a kilometer-every day by 2012. "We will look at using financial incentives,such as payments, vouchers and other rewards,to encourage individuals to lose weight and sustain that weight loss,to eat more healthily,or to be consistently more physically active,"officials said.