Part III Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)

Section A

Directions:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Scientists scanning and mapping the Giza pyramids say they've discovered that the Great Pyramid of Giza is not exactly even.But really not by much.This pyramid is the oldest of the world's Seven Wonders.The pyramid's exact size has 26 experts for centuries,as the"more than 21 acres of hard,white casing stones"that originally covered it were 27 long ago.Reporting in the most recent issue of the newsletter"AERAGRAM,"which 28 the work of the Ancient Egypt Research Associates,engineer Glen Dash says his team used a new measuring approach that involved finding any surviving 29 of the casing in order to determine where the original edge was.They found the east side of the pyramid to be a 30 of 5.5 inches shorter than the west side.

The question that most 31 him,however,isn't how the Egyptians who designed and built the pyramid got it wrong 4,500 years ago,but how they got it so close to 32."We can only speculate as to how the Egyptians could have laid out these lines with such 33 using only the tools they had,"Dash writes.He says his 34 is that the Egyptians laid out their design on a grid,noting that the great pyramid is oriented only 35 away from the cardinal directions(its north-south axis runs 3 minutes 54 seconds west of due north,while its east-west axis runs 3 minutes 51 seconds north of due east)—an amount that's"tiny,but similar,"archeologist Atlas Obscura points out.

A)chronicles

B)complete

C)established

D)fascinates

E)hypothesis

F)maximum

G)momentum

H)mysteriously

I)perfect

J)precision

K)puzzled

L)remnants

M)removed

N)revelations

O)slightly

【參考答案】

26-35：KMALF DIJEO

【參考翻譯】

掃描和測(cè)繪吉薩金字塔的科學(xué)家說(shuō)，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)吉薩大金字塔并不完全是平的。但也不是很多。這座金字塔是世界七大奇跡中最古老的一座。金字塔的精確大小已經(jīng)有26位專家研究了幾個(gè)世紀(jì)，因?yàn)樽畛醺采w它的“超過(guò)21英畝的白色硬石”是27年前的事了。在最新一期的《AERAGRAM》通訊中，工程師格倫·達(dá)什說(shuō)，他的團(tuán)隊(duì)使用了一種新的測(cè)量方法，找到了外殼的任何殘存部分，以確定原來(lái)的邊緣在哪里。他們發(fā)現(xiàn)金字塔的東側(cè)比西側(cè)短了5.5英寸，只有30英寸。

然而，大多數(shù)31歲的埃及人最關(guān)心的問(wèn)題不是4500年前設(shè)計(jì)和建造金字塔的埃及人是如何弄錯(cuò)的，而是他們是如何把金字塔建得如此接近32歲的。Dash寫(xiě)道:“我們只能推測(cè)，埃及人是如何用他們擁有的工具，用這33條線畫(huà)出這些線條的。”他說(shuō)他34是埃及人提出了他們的設(shè)計(jì)一個(gè)網(wǎng)格,并指出大金字塔只面向35遠(yuǎn)離主方向(地球的南北軸運(yùn)行3分鐘54秒由于北以西,而其北部東西向軸線3分51秒向東)——數(shù)量的“微小,但相似,”考古學(xué)家針孔阿特拉斯指出。

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