The world’s first institution of its kind was founded in 1753, based on

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问题 The world’s first institution of its kind was founded in 1753, based on the collections left to the nation by Sir Hans Sloane, a wealthy doctor who had made it clear that he expected them to be open to public view. A committee of eminent (著名的) trustees was【C1】_______to organize the museum in a 17th-century mansion called Montagu House, bought with【C2】_______raised by a public lottery, and late in 1758 the trustees decided to open to the public, though as David Wilson makes clear in his The British Museum: A History, they had reservations about who should be let in. There were【C3】_______doubts about servants and members of the lower classes, whose presence could offend visitors from【C4】_______up the social ladder. No drunks were welcome, and for the collections’ safety it was provided that visitors must be shown【C5】_______by the museum’s officers and not allowed to walk through the rooms【C6】_______.
The number of visitors in the early years【C7】_______to some 12,000 people a year, who came to see the antiquities from Aztec Mexico to Ancient Egypt to India and Japan, the classical statues, the natural history and geological【C8】_______, the manuscripts and drawings, coins and medals. The Egyptian mummies (木乃伊) particularly【C9】_______early visitors. Reputable scholars were allowed to work in the reading rooms. In the early days they included philosophers. Purchases and【C10】_______swiftly augmented (增加) the collections and the museum was well on its way.
A) alone
B) assembled
C) assigned
D) belongings
E) fascinated
F) gifts
G) grave
H) higher
I) items
J) money
K) noble
L) prevented
M) ran
N) round
O) simply [br] 【C9】

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答案 E

解析上句指出，博物馆参观人数众多，都是为了目睹稀世珍宝的风采。而本句则用particularly强调木乃伊的地位，可推断其应该令参观者心生向往。结合备选项可知，fascinated“深深吸引，迷住”符合题意，故为答案。

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