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[originaltext] American researchers have discovered the world’s oldest paved
[originaltext] American researchers have discovered the world’s oldest paved
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2023-08-12
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American researchers have discovered the world’s oldest paved road, a 4,600-year-old highway. [16] It linked a stone pit in the Egyptian desert to waterways that carried blocks to monument sites along the Nile.
The eight-mile road is at least 500 years older than any previously discovered road. It is the only paved road discovered in ancient Egypt, said geologist Thomas Bown of the U.S. Geological Survey. He reported the discovery on Friday. “The road probably doesn’t rank with the pyramids as a construction feat, but it is a major engineering achievement,” said his colleague, geologist James Harrell of the University of Toledo. “Not only is the road earlier than we thought possible, we didn’t even think they built roads.”
[17] The researchers also made a discovery in the stone pit at the northern end of the road: the first evidence that the Egyptians used rock saws. “This is the oldest example of saws being used for cutting stone,” said Bown’s colleague James Hoffmeier of Wheaton College in Illinois. “That’s two technologies we didn’t know they had,” Harrell said. “And we don’t know why they were both abandoned.”
The road was discovered in the Faiyum Depression, about 45 miles southwest of Cairo. Short segments of the road had been observed by earlier explorers, Bown said, but they failed to realize its significance or follow up on their observations. Bown and his colleagues stumbled across it while they were doing geological mapping in the region.
[18] The road was clearly built to provide services for the newly discovered stone pit. Bown and Harrell have found the camp that housed workers at the stone pit. The road appears today to go nowhere, ending in the middle of the desert. When it was built, its terminal was a dock on the shore of Lake Moeris, which had an elevation of about 66 feet above sea level, the same as the dock.
Lake Moeris received its water from the annual floods of the Nile. At the time of the floods, the river and lake were at the same level and connected through a gap in the hills near the modern villages of el-Lahun and Hawara. Harrell and Bown believe that blocks were loaded onto barges during the dry season, then floated over to the Nile during the floods to be shipped off to the monument sites at Giza and Saqqara.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. What do we learn from the lecture about the world’s oldest paved road in Egypt?
17. What did the researchers discover in the stone pit?
18. For what purpose was the paved road built?
选项
A、It was the longest road in ancient Egypt.
B、It was constructed some 500 years ago.
C、It lay 8 miles from the monument sites.
D、It linked a stone pit to some waterways.
答案
D
解析
浏览四个选项,根据选项中出现的the longest road,constructed,miles,linked等词可以推测,该题可能涉及某条道路的具体信息。题干问的是关于在埃及的世界第一条铺面道路,我们可以从演讲者那里了解到什么。讲座中提到,它把埃及沙漠地区的采石场和水路连接到一起。故答案为D(它连接采石场和水路)。A项(它是古埃及最长的道路)原文未提及,故排除。B项(它大约建于500年之前)与原文不符,原文说的是它比之前发现的任何道路都要早至少500年,故排除。C项(它距离古迹遗址8英里)与原文不符,原文说的是这条路长8英里,而不是它距离古迹遗址8英里,故排除。
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