牛津大學(xué)英語介紹課件

11.history2.Buildings3.FamousfiguresCONTENTS2AstheoldestuniversityintheEnglish-speakingworld,Oxfordisrespectedinternationallyasateachingandresearchcentre.AlthoughtheOxfordUniversitydoesnothaveanexactdateoffoundation,itshistorycanbetracedbacktotheendofthe11thcentury.1.history3ThereisevidenceshowingthatteachingexistedinOxfordasearlyas1096.Attheendofthe12thcentury,theOxfordhadgrownrapidlyintoaveryimportantteachingcentre.Duringover8centuries,Oxfordhasalwaysbeentheworld’sleadingacademicinstitution.4TheLordismylight52.buildings672.buildingslibrariesOxfordUniversityhasmorethan100libraries,whicharedividedintocollegelibraries,subject-basedlibrariesandresearchlibraries.OxfordUniversityalsohasthesecondlargestlibraryintheUK,BodleianLibrary,whichhasmorethan8,000,000volumes.8There

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museums

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the

University.Ashmolean

Museum（阿什莫林博物館）is

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importantmuseums

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art

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archaeology（考古學(xué)）

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Britain.Museum9103.FamousfiguresAccordingtostatistics,theOxfordUniversityproducedatotalnumberoftwoKingsofEngland,forty-eightNobelPrizewinners,twenty-sixBritishPrimeMinisters，twelvesaintsandtwentyArchbishopsofCanterbury.據(jù)統(tǒng)計，牛津大學(xué)總共產(chǎn)生了2位英國國士，48位諾貝爾獎得主，26位英國首相，12位圣徒和20位大主教。11TherearealsomanyotherfamousseniorandjuniormembersoftheUniversityinvariousareas,suchaswriters,economists,scientists,composers,andactors.此外還有其他