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

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] 【C6】
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答案 A
解析 由句意可知，考虑到藏品的安全，参观者必须在博物馆工作人员的带领下游览。由此可推出参观者不能一个人在房间内走动，所以空格处应填入alone“独自”。
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