首页
登录
职称英语
For more than a mile, the desert in southern Peru has a curious ruler-straig
For more than a mile, the desert in southern Peru has a curious ruler-straig
游客
2023-10-12
8
管理
问题
For more than a mile, the desert in southern Peru has a curious ruler-straight and tack-sharp design made by rocks. The wandering mule paths that cross it only emphasize its precision.
Throughout hundreds of square miles of arid plateau, other such markings around, most of them concentrated between the towns of Naz-ca and Palpa. Known as the Nazca Lines, they form a geometric melange of quardrangles, triangles, and trapezoids. The markings also form spirals and flowers, narrow lines that extend more than five miles, and a desert zoo of giant creatures—birds, reptiles, whales, a monkey, and a spider—all made by stones whose patterns can only be seen from the air.
Because some of the figures resemble the ones that decorate Nazca pottery, archaeologists attribute the lines to the Nazcas, a coastal people whose culture rose, flourished, and declined between 100 B. C. and A. D. 700.
Making the patterns must have been extremely time-consuming. The Nazcas must have cleared millions of rocks to expose the lighter ground beneath them, piled the rocks in rows, and created designs that, in this nearly rainless region, can last thousands of years.
But why did they construct them? Nobody really knows. There have been many guesses. Some say that they were prehistoric roads, or farms. Others say they were signals or offerings to celestial beings. It has also been suggested that they constitute a giant astronomical calendar, an almanac for farmers who wished to predict the return of water to valley streams. One study did ascertain that some of the lines point to solstice positions of the sun and moon in ancient times, as well as to the rising and setting points on the horizon of some of the bright stars. But none of the theories have proven to be correct.
And so the mystery remains, including the most tantalizing question of all: why did the Nazcas create immense designs that they themselves could never see, designs that people nowadays can only see from the air?
One person who worked to find out the answer was Maria Beiche. For over forty years she photographed and charted "las lineas" , striving to complete a map of the hundreds of designs and figures of this area, which is some thirty miles long and threaded by the Pan American highway.
This determined German-born mathematician slept on a camp cot behind her car on the rocky, grassless Peruvian "pampa" , and even when she was elderly, got up before daylight to conduct her research.
She scorned the suggestion that the markings may have been airfields for outer-space visitors to earth during prehistoric times. "Once you remove the stones, the ground is quite soft," she said. "I’m afraid the spacemen would have gotten stuck. "
Although Maria Reiche was not able to find the answer, she crusaded to preserve the patterns so that others following her might have a chance to do so. [br] Could those who built the Nazca Lines see the patterns? If not, how can people now see them?
选项
答案
No.they couldn’t.People now can only see them from the air.
解析
(第六段提到了一个谜团“为什么Nazcas要创造这些他们自己永远都看不到的巨大的设计,而这些设计现在人们只能从空中才能看到”)
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3092405.html
相关试题推荐
Areyoucuriousabouttheprivate【46】______(life)ofactorsandpopstars?
Areyoucuriousabouttheprivate【46】______(life)ofactorsandpopstars?
Areyoucuriousabouttheprivate【46】______(life)ofactorsandpopstars?
Areyoucuriousabouttheprivate【46】______(life)ofactorsandpopstars?
Areyoucuriousabouttheprivate【46】______(life)ofactorsandpopstars?
Areyoucuriousabouttheprivate【46】______(life)ofactorsandpopstars?
Areyoucuriousabouttheprivate【46】______(life)ofactorsandpopstars?
Formorethanamile,thedesertinsouthernPeruhasacuriousruler-straig
Formorethanamile,thedesertinsouthernPeruhasacuriousruler-straig
Formorethanamile,thedesertinsouthernPeruhasacuriousruler-straig
随机试题
Theriseofmultinationalcorporations(跨国公司),globalmarketing,newcommuni
甲企业以增发市场价值为12650万元的自身普通股为对价购入乙企业100%
下列地址中,属于154.100.80.128/26的可用主机地址是( )。A.
超声成像过程中,下列哪种脉冲长度对高分辨力最重要A.长脉冲 B.短脉冲 C.
不属于浙江道地药材的是A.天台乌药B.榧子C.元胡D.天麻E.温郁金
下列GIS软件测试方法中,一般由代码编写者自己完成的是()。A:单元测试B:回
初产妇,足月顺产后3天,体温38.9℃,子宫体轻压痛,恶露量多且有臭味。 患者
下列建设工程,建设单位应当向住房和城乡建设主管部门申请消防设计审核,并在建设工程
评估培训与开发效果时,最重要的评估是()。A.反应评估 B.学习评估 C.
根据合伙企业法律制度的规定,下列情形中,属于当然退伙事由的是( )。A.合伙人
最新回复
(
0
)