Welcome to the British Museum, the grandest and the most spectacular of human hi

Welcome to the British Museum, the grandestand the most spectacular of human history.  The admission is free and weopen every day from 10:00 to 15:30. You can explore 10 departments including:

The Department of Africa, Oceania and theAmericas

The collection of the Department of Africa,Oceania and the Americas includes around 350,000 objects. The scope of thecollection is contemporary, and historical. It includes most of Africa,the Pacific and Australia, as well as the Americas. All of the collectionswere got during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and date from this time.

The Department of Asia

The Department of Asia covers the materialand visual cultures of Asia – a vast geographical area of Japan, Korea, China,Central Asia, Afghanistan, South Asia and South-East Asia. The collection datesfrom about 4000 BC, to the present day. It represents the cultures andways of life of local people and other minority groups.

The Department of Greek and Roman Empires

The Department of Greek and Roman Empiresfeatures antiquities (古董). It has one of the most comprehensive collections of antiquitiesfrom the Classical world, with over 100,000 objects. These mostly range in datefrom the beginning of the Greek Bronze Age (about 3200BC) to the time of theRoman emperor Constantine in the fourth century AD.

69. The scope of the Department of Africa,Oceania and Americas doesn’t include______.

A. Africa B. Australia    C.the SouthAmerica                  D. Britain

70. The earliest collection is from ______.

A. The Department of Africa, Oceania andthe Americas

B. The Department of Asia

C. The Department of Greek and RomanEmpires

D. All of the above

71. The Department of Asia represents______.

A. the geographic features of Asia

B. the relationships between Asiancountries

C. the life styles and cultural traditionsof some peoples

D. the cultural fights between some nativegroups

试题答案

【答案】

69----71    D B C

【解析】略