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The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that still exists
The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that still exists
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2023-10-12
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The only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that still exists is also the【C1】_________(old) of them all.The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt was built sometime around 2560 BC.It was already two thousand years old 【C2】_________work began on the next Wonder, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.The age of the Great Pyramid—more than 4,500 years—is so great that it seems almost as if it has been there for ever, and that it will last forever.In the words of the Arab proverb, "Man fears Time, but Time fears the Pyramids".
But age is only one of the reasons why the Great Pyramid is so extraordinary.Another is its size:it is by far the largest of the Seven Wonders and, except for frontier walls such as the Great Wall of China, it is the largest single thing made of stone that has ever been built.Then, too, there is the【C3】________ (amaze) effort and skill that were needed to cut all that stone and put it together into what is a near-perfect geometrical form, with only simple tools and technology.In fact, if we were asked today for a list of Seven Wonders, ancient or modem, the Great Pyramid would certainly still be on it.But why was such an extraordinary thing ever built? What exactly is it?
The Great Pyramid, like the other larger pyramids in Egypt, is the burial place, or tomb, of one of the country’s ancient kings.During the period in Egyptian history known as the Old Kingdom (3100—2180BC) ,more than twenty pyramids were built at different places along the River Nile.Three of the larger ones are at Giza, which is now a suburb of Cairo.Like all the other pyramids,they are【C4】________the west bank of the Nile, with only the desert and the setting sun beyond.To the ancient Egyptians, the west was the home of the dead.This was where the sun-god Ra, who sailed across the sky in his boat during the day, began his nightly【C5】jo________down through the Underworld.
For a person’s spirit to survive death, the Egyptians believed the body had to be 【C6】pre________.This was because the spirit of the dead person left the body at night,but had to return to it in the morning for food and rest.Without these things, the soul would be lost.Members of a family, or their priests, would therefore place food in the tomb of a dead relative, together with furniture and the other【C7】________ (necessity) of life.In order that the returning spirit would recognise its home, the body had to be kept as lifelike as possible, which is why the Egyptians perfected the art of embalming bodies to produce what we now call mummies.We do not know what the ordinary people, who could not【C8】af________to pay for embalming, thought would happen to their spirits after their bodies had decayed.Perhaps they simply accepted that, in death as in 【C9】________, they would not be as lucky as their rulers.
Their king, or pharaoh, was considered to be a god—a son, in fact, of the sun-god Ra—and his body had to be especially well protected after death.We can therefore understand why the pyramid which was his royal tomb was so large:by placing the mummy of the dead pharaoh deep inside such a huge structure, the【C10】________ (build) thought that no one would ever be able to disturb it.The shape of the structure was important too:a pyramid represented the rays of the sun as they spread out and touched the earth. [br] 【C10】
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builders
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该句的意思是“……通过将死去的法老的木乃伊深埋在如此巨大的建筑中,建造者们认为没有人能打扰它”。空白处填入名词,根据句意和所给单词线索,故填入builders。
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