2024届高三英语一轮复习实事语法填空之大英博物馆

实事语法填空

Ⅰ—The British Museum

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A call for the British Museum to return Chinese artifacts after the recent alleged theft of about 2,000 items is heating up social media in the country. In the piece published on Sunday night, Global Times asked the museum to give back all Chinese cultural relics "free of charge”.

The BBC has reached out to the British Museum for comment 1._____      is yet to hear back. The museum has been under pressure after around 2,000 items 2.      (report) "missing, stolen or damaged" two weeks ago. A member of staff was sacked when the news first 3._______       (come) out. Last week, its director Hartwig Fischer also announced he would step down.

"The huge loopholes in the management and 4.     (secure) of cultural objects in  the British Museum5.___  _      (expose) by this scandal have led to

the collapse of a long-standing and widely circulated claim that 'foreign cultural objects are 6.________        (good) protected in the British Museum'," the editorial reads.

The British Museum has the biggest collection of Chinese antiquities in the West. According to its website, it has about 23,000 Chinese objects, 7.        (span) from the Neolithic age to the present, 8.______       include a large range of precious items such as paintings, prints, jade, bronzes and ceramics. One of the most famous is 9.     reproduction of a scroll called "Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies(《女史箴图》)", a masterpiece 10.       (consider) a milestone in Chinese art history.

 

Keys: 1.but  2.were reported  3.came  4.security  5.exposed

6.better   7.spanning   8.which  9.the  10.considered

 

参考词汇：artefact['ɑːtɪfækt] 手工艺品；文物 =artifact（美） 

alleged[ə'ledʒd] 声称的；可疑的

heat up本意加热、变暖；针对某件事，指「加剧，激化」

reached out伸手、伸手去抓;口语和书面语中，可表示「联系某人」

sack [sæk]袋子（想想电视剧里离职抱着袋子走，也就容易理解也有解雇的意思）；解雇

step down字面意思往下走，也指辞去某个职位、下台

loophole['luːphəʊl]n. 换气孔；漏洞 vt. 钻空子（尤其指法律、合同等方面「漏洞」）

scandal['skændl] n. 丑闻；反感；耻辱 v. 诽谤

collapse[kə'læps]v. （使）倒塌；（使）崩溃；n.倒塌；暴跌

long-standingadj. 长久的；经久不衰的（传统文化类话题作文里可以用，形容「文化悠久」have a long-standing culture）

widely circulated字面意思广泛地+流通、循环，多用来形容流言、观点等这类信息「广为流传，传播甚广」

reproduction[ˌriːprə'dʌkʃn]n.再现；复制   admonitions[ˌædmə'nɪʃn] n. 警告；劝告

 

 

II. —The Histoty of the British Museum

 

The British Museum is one of the finest museums in the world, with a vast collection 1.      (base) on the private collection of an 18th-century antiquarian but now grown to encompass a remarkable array of objects from across the globe and illustrating the sweep of human history from ancient times to the present day.

Sir Hans Sloane was an avid collector of antiquities, with an eclectic taste 2.      (rang) from Egyptian coffins to Greek statues. When Sloane died in 1753 he left a collection of over 71,000 artefacts to King George II, on the condition that the king pay his heirs £20,000 - an astronomical sum for the time. Essentially, Sloane was selling his collection to the nation.