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If you go to Egypt, you’ll see a lot of pyramids. The biggest of all is the Great Pyramid. It is about 137 meters high and made of 2,300,000 big stones. Each stone weighs about two and a half tons(吨).The biggest ones even weigh fifteen tons. It took more than 100,000 men twenty years to build it. Nobody can tell just how the men cut, carried and lifted(举)the huge stones without our modern machines(机器).

    The Egyptian kings told the people to build the pyramids for themselves. They thought they had tombs (坟墓)strong enough to keep their bodies well until they came back to life. But they never thought that about 5,000 years later their bodies would be on show in museums.

1.The Great Pyramid is in ________.

A. China          B. Japan           C. Egypt            D. France

2. A pyramid is ______.

A.a house         B. a huge stone      C. a king’s tomb      D. the name of a museum

3.The Great Pyramid is about _______ and made of _______ huge stones.

A.137 metres high; 100,000             B.137 high metres; 2,300,000

C.137 metres; 2,300,000                D.137 meters high; 2,300,000

4.Pyramids are built for _______.

A. the kings       B. the queens(皇后)  C. the kings' teachers      D. People

5.The kings thought they had the pyramids built to keep their bodies until _________.

A. they came home                    B. they became alive

C. they die                           D. they were on show in museums

 

【答案】

 

1.C

2.C

3.D

4.A

5.B

【解析】

试题分析:这篇短文讲解了埃及的金字塔中的大金字塔的情况。包括塔高、石块原料以及建造的代价等;最后介绍了埃及国王当初建造金字塔的目的以及今天的发展状况。

1.细节理解题。根据第一段If you go to Egypt, you’ll see a lot of pyramids. The biggest of all is the Great Pyramid.可知大金字塔在埃及;故选C。

2.推理判断题。根据第二段中The Egyptian kings told the people to build the pyramids for themselves. They thought they had tombs (坟墓)strong enough to keep their bodies well until they came back to life.可知埃及国王让人们为他们自己建造金字塔一存放尸体;故选C。

3.细节判断题。根据第一段It is about 137 meters high and made of 2,300,000 big stones.可知大金字塔高达137米,由230万块石头制成;故选D。

4.细节理解题。由第二段第一句The Egyptian kings told the people to build the pyramids for themselves.可知金字塔是国王为自己制造的;故选A。

5.细节理解题。由第二段They thought they had tombs (坟墓)strong enough to keep their bodies well until they came back to life.他们建金字塔是为他们复活之前存放尸体准备的;故选B。

 考点:历史类短文阅读。

 

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