Row after row they marched - thousands of larger-than-life figures frozen in clay， a phalanx（方阵） of officials defending the tomb of China's first emperor．Silently they guarded beneath the soil for 2，200 years， until a farmer digging a well in 1974 found broken pieces of unparalleled significance near China's early capital city， Xianyang．
Now those fierce warriors have reached the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts（VMFA） to tell their extraordinary story． The exhibition will be on display at VMFA from Saturday， November 18， 2017 through March 11， 2018 before traveling to the Cincinnati Art Museum．Ten of the clay figures will stand with a total of 130 objects from 14 museums and archaeological institutes in China's Shaanxi Province， where the current city of Xi'an is located． Forty of the objects have never left China before． Beyond the life-size clay figures， the exhibit brings perspective with objects that range from bronze spearheads found in the emperor's tomb to a small gold tiger that pre-dated him by more than 250 years．
The fascination draws lots of visitors wherever the terracotta figures have traveled． The National Geographic Museum in Washington had a record-setting 280，000 people at its four-month exhibit of 15figures in 2009-2010． Chicago's Field Museum attracted 460，000 to its 10-month exhibit that ended in January．
At the same time with the VMFA exhibit， Philadelphia's Franklin Institute will have a terracotta warriors exhibit that focuses on the science and technology that went into their creation． VMFA focuses on why they were created and how they fit into China's long sweep of history． Each institution has 10life-size terracotta figures on display， giving an unprecedented（空前的） opportunity to study them in depth．
The VMFA exhibition is divided into three sections． The first one introduces the emperor； the second puts him in context with artifacts from the warring states； the third shows his journey into the afterlife．



According to Paragraph 2， some of the items on display ______ ．

A. have not gone abroad
B. have just been discovered
C. are from museums all over China
D. were earlier than China's first emperor

How many American cities will hold the exhibition of terracotta warriors？ ______

A. 2． B. 3． C. 4． D. 5．

How do Americans think of terracotta warriors？ ______

A. Attractive． B. Aggressive． C. Professional． D. Conservative．

What is the best title for the text？ ______

A. Terracotta Warriors of China
B. The Exhibit of China's First Emperor
C. Trracotta Warriors Exhibits in the US
D. New Discoveries in Terracotta Warriors