英语阅读新视野第2课
The Sphinx 狮身人面像
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Before You Read 阅前思考
Answer the following questions.
1. What do you know about the monument in the picture?
2. Do you know any other Egyptian monuments?
3. What are some famous monuments in your country?
Target Vocabulary 目标词汇
Match each word with the best meaning.
1. archaeologist a. to make something look like it did when it was new
2. cane b. easy to e
3. crawl c. a stick made of wood or metal ud to help a person walk
4. monument d. to move slowly and clo to the ground
5. restore e. a person, animal, or thing made from wood, stone, or metal
6. riddle f. to show great respect for
7. statue g. a question that requires cleverness to answer
8. strangle h. to kill someone by squeezing their neck so they can’t breathe
9. visible i. a sculpture or building built in memory of a person or historical event
10. worship j. a person who studies historical people and cultures by looking at old
things
Reading Passage 阅读文章
For any tourist visiting Egypt, there are two things that everyone must e. The first is the 137-meter-high Great Pyramid of Giza, the largest of all the pyramids in Egypt. The cond is the Great Sphinx of Giza, a sculpture with the body of a lion and the head of a man, which stands 20 meters tall and 73 meters long.
紧急预案
The origin of the Great Sphinx of Giza goes back 5, 000 years. Although many sphinx sculptures have been found over the years, rearchers believe that the Great Sphinx which guards the pyramids in Giza was actually the first one to be made (around 2600-25
00 B. C.). The head of the Sphinx reprents Khafre, the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt at that time.
查对制度
洗牙的坏处About two thousand years later, around 570 B. C., sand havd covered all but the head of the Great Sphinx. The people living in the area had forgotten the history of the statue, so they imagined that the head reprented the sun god Ra and began worshiping it. The son of Pharaoh Amenhotep Ⅱ heard the head speak to him in a dream. The Sphinx’s head made him promi to clear the sand from the statue’s body. The son, Thutmo, kept his word and did what he was told in the dream. He also built walls around the statue to prevent the sand from covering it again. After all of the sand was cleared away, Thutmo made a large stone tablet that told the story of his dream. He placed this tablet between the town front feet of the Sphinx, where it stands to this day.
For hundreds of years, the Sphinx attracted people both as a religious monument and as a work of art. But eventually, the dert sand once again covered the Sphinx, leaving only the head visible. It was not until the 1800s that archaeologists began clearing the sand fr
om the statue and began rearching the long history of the Sphinx. At last, in the 1920s, all of the sand was finally cleared
away and restoration work, which continues to this day, was begun.
The name “sphinx”comes from an ancient Greek word, meaning “strangler.”According to Greek legend, the Sphinx was a demon with the body of a winged lion, and the head of a woman. She sat beside a road, and asked all people who pasd her a riddle: “Which animal in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two, and on three in the evening?” She strangled anyone who couldn’t make n of the question. The riddle was finally solved by the Greek king, Oedipus. The answer was man, who crawls on hands and knees as a body, then walks on two feet as an adult, and finally walks with a cane in old age. The Sphinx then threw herlf from her high rock and died.
Circle the letter of the best answer.
1. What is this passage mainly about?
哈尔滨导游
a. how the Great Sphinx is being restored c. the history of the Egyptian Pharaohs
b. the history of the Great Sphinx d. the monuments of Egypt
2. Which statement about the Great Sphinx is true?
a. It is the only sphinx in the world. c. It was built by the ancient Greeks.
b. It is the largest monument in Egypt. d. It has been covered by sand at least twice.
3. The Great Sphinx was built as a monument to who?
a. Khafre
b. Amenhotep Ⅱ
c. Ra
d. Oedipus
4. What ntence about the Great Sphinx is NOT true?
a. It is not longer covered by sand. c. It is still being restored.
购买二手房注意事项b. People today believe that it reprents the sun god Ra.
d. You can still e a tablet in front of it.
五月用英语怎么说5. According to legend, how did the Sphinx die?
a. Oedipus killed her. c. She killed herlf.
b. She died of old age. d. She was strangled.
Idioms 习语
Find each idiom in the story.
1. To this day—until and including today
She left her country when she was sixteen and to this day has never been back.
The mystery of Jim Thomson’s disappearance is unsolved to this day.
2. keep one’s word—do what you say you will do
You can really trust Junichi. He always keeps his word.
I didn’t think she’d remember her promi, but she kept her word.
3. make n(of)—able to understood; succeed in understanding
Can you help me with this question? I can’t make n of it.
No one could understand why he killed himlf. It just didn’t make n.
A. Circle the letter of the word or phra that best the ntence.
1. Before babies can walk, they learn to .
a. strangle
面相十二宫图b. worship
c. crawl
d. restore
2. Which of the would be most uful in helping an elderly person walk?
