2018年GER阅读练习:埃及狮身人面像

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The Great Sphinx is a huge statue in Egypt that has a lion’s body with a man’s head. The face of the Sphinx has long been claimed to be that of pharaoh Khafre, who lived around 2600 B.C., but it cannot be: erosion patterns recently discovered on the lion’s legs can only have been caused by heavy rains, and the Sahara has not had heavy rains in over 10,000 years.

6. Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A. The face of the Sphinx bears a resemblance to the faces on certain stylized statues dating from both before and after the reign of Khafre.

B. Other erosion patterns that appear on the body of the Sphinx are of a sort that could be caused by wind and sand alone

C. Other than the Sphinx, there are no surviving sculptures that have been claimed to portray the face of Khafre.

D. In the last 10,000 years the climate of Egypt has been so dry that even rains that are not heavy have been extremely infrequent.

E. The face of the Sphinx is small relative to the rest of the head, indicating that the face may have been recarved long after the Sphinx was built.

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The Great Sphinx is a huge statue in Egypt that has a lion’s body with a man’s head.

狮身人面像是埃及的一座巨大雕像，由狮身和人头组成。

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The face of the Sphinx has long been claimed to be that of pharaoh Khafre, who lived around 2600 B.C., but it cannot be: erosion patterns recently discovered on the lion’s legs can only have been caused by heavy rains, and the Sahara has not had heavy rains in over 10,000 years.

斯芬克斯的脸一直被认为就是法老 K 的脸，他生活在公元前 2600 年左右，但这不可能：最近在狮身腿部发现的侵蚀图样，只可能是大雨冲刷造成的，而撒哈拉地区已经至少 10000 年没下过大雨了。

6. Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

A. The face of the Sphinx bears a resemblance to the faces on certain stylized statues dating from both before and after the reign of Khafre.

B. Other erosion patterns that appear on the body of the Sphinx are of a sort that could be caused by wind and sand alone

C. Other than the Sphinx, there are no surviving sculptures that have been claimed to portray the face of Khafre.

D. In the last 10,000 years the climate of Egypt has been so dry that even rains that are not heavy have been extremely infrequent.

E. The face of the Sphinx is small relative to the rest of the head, indicating that the face may have been recarved long after the Sphinx was built.

选 E

还是削弱题，先找结论。

文段的结论很好找，即 but it cannot be，完整地说 the face of Sphinx cannot be that of Khafre .

请注意，题目让我们削弱的是 斯芬克斯的脸不可能是 K 的脸，可没让我们削弱 斯芬克斯是 K 让奴隶造的。有的同学卡在此题，因为他们觉得斯芬克斯怎么看也不是 K 造的啊，作者说的很有道理啊，没法削弱啊，哪个选项都不满足题设。搞清这一点，难度瞬间降低，E 提供了一种可能，斯芬克斯的确不是 K 造的，但可能有人(不管这个人是 K 还是他的儿子)重刻了斯芬克斯的脸，使它看起来像 K 。审好题很重要。

A 斯芬克斯的脸与很多某种风格的雕像类似，它们有的比 K 早，有的比 K 晚。

B 斯芬克斯身上的其他侵蚀图样是单纯被风沙造成的。

C 除了斯芬克斯，没有任何一座现存的雕像声称用了 K 的脸。

D 过去 10000 年埃及如此干燥，以至于小雨都极罕见。

E 斯芬克斯的脸比头的其他部分小，意味着脸可能是雕像建成很久以后改刻上去的。

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