2018年6月英语六级听力真题-第1套-录音1

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听力试题、听力原文、答案：

一、听力试题：

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16. 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.

17. A) Saws used for cutting stone.

B) Traces left by early explorers.

C) An ancient geographical map.

D) Some stone tool segments.

18. A) To transport stones to block floods.

B) To provide services for the stone pit.

C) To link the various monument sites.

D) To connect the villages along the Nile.

二、听力原文

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American researchers have discovered the world's oldest paved road, a 4,600-year-old highway. 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 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."
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.
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.
Q16:  What do we learn from the lecture about the world's oldest paved road in Egypt?
Q17:  What did the researchers discover in the stone pit?
Q18:  For what purpose was the paved road built?

三、答案

16. D
17. A
18. B

【翻译】

美国研究人员发现了世界上最古老的人工铺就的公路，有4600年的历史。

这条路连接了埃及沙漠中的一个采石场和几条运送石块至尼罗河沿岸纪念遗址的水路。

这条八英里长的路比以往发现的任何一条路至少早500年。

美国地质调查局的地质学家托马斯·鲍恩表示，这是在古埃及发现的唯一一条铺好的路。

周五，他报告了这一发现。

“这条路比不上金字塔的建筑壮举，

但是一项重大的工程成就，他的同事、托莱多大学的地质学家詹姆斯·哈勒尔说道。

“不仅这条路比我们想象的要早，而且我们甚至没想过他们会修路。”

研究人员在该公路北端的采石场中发现了埃及人使用岩石锯的第一个证据，

这是人们用锯子来切割石头最古老的例子。

“我们不知道他们有这两种技术，”哈勒尔说。

“我们不知道为什么这些技术都被弃用了。”

这条路是在开罗西南约45英里的法尤姆洼地发现的。

鲍恩说，早期的探险者已经观测过这条路的一小段，

但他们没有意识到它的重要性，也没有继续观测

鲍恩和他的同事在该地区进行地质测绘时偶然发现了这条路。

修建这条路显然是为新发现的采石场服务的。

鲍恩和哈勒尔已经找到了采石场工人的营地。

今天看来，这条路哪儿也通不了，终点就是沙漠中央。

这条路原先建成时的终点是莫尔里斯湖岸边的一个码头，

海拔约66英尺，和码头一样高。

每年，莫伊里斯湖从尼罗河的洪水中获得水源。

洪水来临时，

莫伊里斯湖和尼罗河在同一水平面上，并且通过现代el-Lahun和Hawara村庄附近山脉的一个裂口连接。

哈勒尔和鲍恩认为，旱季，装载到驳船上的石块

随后在洪水期间漂流至尼罗河，运至吉萨和萨卡拉的纪念遗址所在地。

根据你刚才听到的录音回答16-18题。

问题16：我们从这篇关于世界上最古老的埃及铺砌道路文章中学到了什么?

问题17：研究人员在石坑里发现了什么？

问题18：铺好路面是为了什么目的？