高中英语：UnitTheCulturalRelicsReading(新人教必修)

高一英语同步练习

必修 2 Unit 1 The Cultural Relics

第 2 课时Reading

基础练习

阅读理解

The Great Pyramid

The Great Pyramid was built thousands of years ago for a king called Khufu. It is located on the west bank of the NileRiver not far from Cairo. In fact, all the pyramids along the Nile are on the west bank. The ancient Egyptians compared the rising of the sun to the beginning of life and the setting of the sun to the end of life. This is why their dead were buried on the west bank of the Nile.

It ' s very hard to realize just how big the Great Pyramid is. There were over 2,300,000 blocks of solid stone. These huge stone blocks weigh an average of two and a half tones each, as much as a small car. Some even weigh fifteen tones. Without machinery, the ancient Egyptians cut and moved and lifted each of these stones. Many of the blocks came from the east bank of the Nile, and they were taken across the river in boats. It took more than 100,000 slaves twenty years to build the Great Pyramid.

The Great Pyramid is over 450 feet high today, and it was once higher. Each of the sides of the pyramid is 755 feet long. The body of Khufu was in a great stone coffin and many treasures were buried with him.

1. Answer the following questions

1) .Why are all the pyramids in Egypt alongNile built on the west bank?

2) .How long did it take Egyptians to build the Great Pyramid?

2. Tell T or F to the following sentences

1).The Great Pyramid was built for a queen called Khufu.

2) .The Great Pyramid lies in the city of Cairo.

3) .AII the blocks for the pyramids weremoved by trucks.

4) .Ma ny treasures were buried with the body of Khufu.

一.课文摘要填空

The passage tells us the1) ____ of the AmberRoom in the order of2) ____ s o that

we can clearly know what happened to it. It was given the name3) ___________________ almost seven thousand tons of 4) _______ were used to make it. First it was built in Prussia,

then Frederick William I , the king of Prussia, sent it to Peter the Great as a 5) __ of frien dship from Prussia n people .And the Amber Room soon became part of

the Czar ' s win ter 6) _______ in St Petersburg.

Later, Catherine n had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg

where she spe nt her summers and she told her artists to add more details to

its7) __ .In September 1941, the Nazi Germa n army8) ____ s tole the Amber Room

and sent boxes of the Amber Room on a train for Koni gsberg, which was at that time

a Germa n city9) ___ the Baltic Sea. After that what really happe ned to the Amber

Room10) _____ a mystery.

二.汉译英.

1. 中国是一个发展中国家，它是属于第三世界的。

Ch ina is a develop ing country

2. 我在考虑再次去那里。

I _ _ _____ there aga in.

3. 小孩子总喜欢把玩具拆散.

The childre n always ____________________ .

4. 你会高度评价那些总帮助别人的人吗？

Do you _______________ t hose who always help others?