首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Complete the sentences below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. The British Library The library was officially op
Complete the sentences below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. The British Library The library was officially op
admin
2014-10-30
33
问题
Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
The British Library
The library was officially opened in______.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to your very own tour of the British Library on this lovely afternoon. My name is Tony Walters and I’m your guide for today. Could I please see your tickets for the guided tour? I’d also like to remind you that any tickets bought today do not include a visit to the reading rooms. I’m afraid we don’t do visits on Fridays—or any weekday during working hours, so as not to disturb the readers. But if you do want to see those rooms, the only day there are tours is on Sundays. So, I don’t want anyone to be disappointed about that today. OK? Thank you.
Right. We’ll start with a brief introduction. As many of you know, this is the United Kingdom’s National Library and you can see that this is a magnificent modern building. It was first designed by Sir Colin St. John Wilson in 1977, and inaugurated by Her Majesty the Queen more than twenty years later, in 1998.
As you can see, the size is immense and the basements alone have 300 kilometres of shelving—and that’s enough to hold about 12 million books. The total floor space here is 100.000 square metres and, as I’ll show you, the library houses a huge range of facilities and exhibition spaces, and it has a thousand staff members based here in the building—so, you can appreciate the scale of our operation.
In fact, this was the biggest publicly-funded building constructed in the United Kingdom last century. It is still funded by the government as a national institution, of course, and it houses one of the most important collections in the world. The different items come from every continent and span almost 3,000 years.
The library isn’t a public library, though—you can’t just come in and join and borrow any of the books. Access to the collections is limited to those involved in carrying out research—so, it’s really a huge reference library for that purpose, and anyone who wants to consult any materials that are kept here can formally apply to use the library reading rooms.
Right, well, here we are, standing at the Meeting Point on the lower ground floor just to the right of the Main Entrance. I’ve given you all a plan of the building so that we can orientate ourselves and get an idea of where we’ll be going. Now, outside the Main Entrance you’ll see the wide Piazza with the stunning sculpture of Newton. The sculptor was Paolozzi, but it’s based on the famous image by William Blake—and it’s definitely worth a closer look. On the other side of the Piazza from the statue is the Conference Centre, which is used for all kinds of international conventions—we’ll take a quick look inside at the end of our tour.
Looking ahead of us now, you’ll see that we’re standing opposite the staircase down to the basement where you’ll find the cloakroom, and to the left of that, we have the information desk where you can find out about any current exhibitions, the times of the tours and anything you need to know—if you don’t have a tour guide. As you can see, on this lower ground floor we also have a bookshop— that’s the area over to the left of the main entrance. You’ll be free to browse there when we get back to the ground floor.
Now, opposite the main entrance on this floor we have the open stairs leading up to the upper ground floor. And at the top of them, in the middle of the upper ground floor, you can see a kind of glass-sided tower that rises all the way up through the ceiling and up to the first floor. This is called the King’s Library. It’s really the heart of the building. It was built to house the collection that was presented to the nation in 1823 by the King. You can see it from every floor above ground. When we go up there, you’ll find the library’s Treasures Gallery on the left. Can you find it on your plan? That’s the exciting one, so we’ll be visiting that first, but we’ll also take a look at the stamp display situated behind it, on the way to the cafe—a lot of people miss that. The Cafeteria runs along the back of the floor and, in the right-hand corner you’ll find the lifts and toilets... ha, always good to locate them... The other main area on that floor is the Public Access Catalogue section and I’ll show you how that operates when we get up there...
选项
答案
1998
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/0qAO777K
本试题收录于:
雅思听力题库雅思(IELTS)分类
0
雅思听力
雅思(IELTS)
相关试题推荐
CarlaL.Peterson’sDoersoftheWord(1997),astudyofAfricanAmericanwomenspeakersandwritersfrom1830-1880,isanimpor
Discussiontopics:DiscussingproblemswithothersExamplequestions:Whyisitgoodtodiscussproblemswithotherpeople?Doy
.Whydoyouthinkordinarypeopleareinterestedinthelivesoffamouspeople?.Howhasthedevelopmentofeconomyaffected
Howcanthegovernmenthelppeopletoinsureorimprovetheirhealthatwork?
WRITINGTASK1Youshouldspendabout20minutesonthistask. ThechartsbelowshowthenumberofJapanesetouriststravellin
Thechartshowsthenumberofdaystheaverageemployeehasoffworkperyearinfourdifferentcountries.Summarisetheinfor
Nowadays,moreandmoreworkcouldbecompletedbythemachineorrobotswithartificialintelligence.Dothepositiveeffectso
GLOBALISATONFormany,thesurpriseoffindingaMcDonald’soutletinMoscoworBeijingprovidesnogreatersymbolofthesp
ReadthetextbelowandanswerQuestions21-27.HowtoPrepareforaPresentationThefirsttimeyourbosss
Answerthequestionsbelow.ChooseNOMORETHANTHREEWORDSAND/ORANUMBERfromthepassageforeachanswer.Whataspectofsc
随机试题
骨肉瘤好发于
A、冠心苏合丸B、人参再造丸C、通心络胶囊D、九气拈痛丸E、血府逐瘀口服液患者,男,75岁。患冠心病多年,症见胸部憋闷,刺痛,固定不移,心悸盗汗,气短乏力,舌质紫黯有瘀斑,脉细涩。证属心气虚乏、血瘀络阻,宜选用的中成药是
由于设备工程的复杂性,设备监理人员难以对设备工程各阶段的所有相关工作进行监督和控制。而且,传统的进度控制方法通常是从施工单位角度提出来的,对监理单位实施的监督和管理任务并不完全适合,设备监理工程师有必要( )。
采用()时实现了集权与分权的最优结合,有利于调动各类人员的工作积极性。
冬期填筑路堤,应按横断面全宽平填,且最大松铺厚度不得超过( )。
某建设单位建设一热电厂,该单位委托甲工程监理公司对工程进行监理,委托乙施工单位作为项目的施工总承包单位,并决定向美国丙重型设备制造商订购发电设备。甲监理公司的总监理工程师在主持编制监理规划时,安排了一位专业监理工程师负责风险分析和相应监理规划内容
产品生命周期由研制、成长、成熟和衰退四个阶段组成。而对产品在不同的生命周期阶段,企业在物流方面应做出相应的对策。下列做法错误的是()。
某装置的启动密码是由0~9中的3个不同数字组成,连续3次输入错误密码,就会导致该装置永久关闭,一个仅记得密码是由3个不同数字组成的人能够启动此装置的概率为
下列关于接入技术特征的描述中,正确的是()。
下列程序的输出结果是#include"stdio.h"#defineN3#defineM3voidfun(inta[M][N]){printf("%d\n",*(a[1]+2));}main()
最新回复
(
0
)