2018年6月英语六级考试真题及答案2（第1套）

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

【参考答案】

26-35：KMALF DIJEO

【参考翻译】

扫描和测绘吉萨金字塔的科学家说，他们发现吉萨大金字塔并不完全是平的。但也不是很多。这座金字塔是世界七大奇迹中最古老的一座。金字塔的精确大小已经有26位专家研究了几个世纪，因为最初覆盖它的“超过21英亩的白色硬石”是27年前的事了。在最新一期的《AERAGRAM》通讯中，工程师格伦·达什说，他的团队使用了一种新的测量方法，找到了外壳的任何残存部分，以确定原来的边缘在哪里。他们发现金字塔的东侧比西侧短了5.5英寸，只有30英寸。

然而，大多数31岁的埃及人最关心的问题不是4500年前设计和建造金字塔的埃及人是如何弄错的，而是他们是如何把金字塔建得如此接近32岁的。Dash写道:“我们只能推测，埃及人是如何用他们拥有的工具，用这33条线画出这些线条的。”他说他34是埃及人提出了他们的设计一个网格,并指出大金字塔只面向35远离主方向(地球的南北轴运行3分钟54秒由于北以西,而其北部东西向轴线3分51秒向东)——数量的“微小,但相似,”考古学家针孔阿特拉斯指出。

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