2018年06月六级第1套选词填空原文翻译及答案解析

Scientists scanning and mapping the Giza pyramids say they've discovered that 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 or 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.

扫描和测绘吉萨金字塔的科学家们表示，他们发现吉萨大金字塔并非完全平整，但差异真的很小。这座金字塔是世界七大奇迹中最古老的。几个世纪以来，专家们已经确定了金字塔的确切尺寸，因为原本覆盖它的“超过21英亩的坚硬白色包层石”早已被移除。在最近一期通讯《AERAGRAM》中报道，该通讯记录了古埃及研究协会的工作，工程师格伦·达什表示，他的团队采用了一种新的测量方法，通过寻找任何幸存的包层残余来确定原始边缘的位置。他们发现金字塔的东侧比西侧短了约5.5英寸。

The question that most __31__ him, however, isn't how the Egyptians who designed and built the pyramid got it wrong 4,500 years age, 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.

然而，最让他着迷的问题并不是4500年前设计和建造金字塔的埃及人如何搞错的，而是他们如何如此接近完美。达什写道：“我们只能推测埃及人如何仅用他们拥有的工具就如此精确地布置出这些线条。”他说，他的假设是埃及人在网格上布置了设计，并指出大金字塔的朝向仅略偏离基本方向（其南北轴线比正北偏西3分54秒，东西轴线比正东偏北3分51秒）——考古学家Atlas Obscura指出，这个偏移量“微小但相似”。