牛津大学英语介绍课件

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

are

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many

famous

museums

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the

University.Ashmolean

Museum（阿什莫林博物馆）is

the

worlds

oldest

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museum

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the

most

importantmuseums

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art

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archaeology（考古学）

in

Britain.Museum9103.FamousfiguresAccordingtostatistics,theOxfordUniversityproducedatotalnumberoftwoKingsofEngland,forty-eightNobelPrizewinners,twenty-sixBritishPrimeMinisters，twelvesaintsandtwentyArchbishopsofCanterbury.据统计，牛津大学总共产生了2位英国国士，48位诺贝尔奖得主，26位英国首相，12位圣徒和20位大主教。11TherearealsomanyotherfamousseniorandjuniormembersoftheUniversityinvariousareas,suchaswriters,economists,scientists,composers,andactors.此外还有其他