[originaltext] " I’ll meet you by the elephant. " That comment is heard a lo

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" I’ll meet you by the elephant. " That comment is heard a lot in Washington, D. C. The elephant is in an unusual place. It is in the center of a large building on the grassy Mall area of the capital city. (26) It is the first thing visitors see when they enter the National Museum of Natural History.
    The African elephant was fifty years old when it died in Angola in 1965. It weighed eight tons. It was so large that the hunter decided to give its re-mains to the Smithsonian Institution. Scientists at the National Museum of Natural History used the bones and skin to rebuild the elephant.
    As you enter the museum, you see a huge elephant that appears to be walking across the grassy area where it once lived. (27) Visitors of all ages stop to look up in wonder at its size. Then they walk around the elephant. They read facts about the animal, hear sounds of its natural environment and watch short films. This is what makes the Natural History Museum so popular. Visitors learn about the natural world in many different ways.
    The National Museum of Natural History is one of the most visited museums in the world. From six million to nine million people visit the building every year. More than one million of them are international visitors. (28) The visitors come to the museum to see many interesting things like examples of huge ancient dino-saurs, live insects, and remains of creatures that lived in ancient seas.
26. What will visitors see first when they enter the National Museum of Natural History?
27. What can visitors do in the Natural History Museum?
28. What else can visitors see in the museum?

选项 A、Examples of dinosaurs.
B、Samples of insects.
C、Remains of live birds.
D、Shows of sea animals.

答案 A

解析 本题询问参观者在国家自然历史博物馆还能看到些什么。短文最后提到参观者到博物馆来参观许多有趣的东西,例如,古时巨型恐龙的样本、活生生的昆虫和生活在古代海洋中的生物遗迹,故答案为A)。
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