Question

If you go to Egypt, you’ll see a lot of pyramids. The biggest of all is the Great Pyramid. It is about 137 meters high and made of 2,300,000 big stones. Each stone weighs about two and a half tons（噸）.The biggest ones even weigh fifteen tons. It took more than 100,000 men twenty years to build it. Nobody can tell just how the men cut, carried and lifted（舉）the huge stones without our modern machines（機器）.
The Egyptian kings told the people to build the pyramids for themselves. They thought they had tombs （墳墓）strong enough to keep their bodies well until they came back to life. But they never thought that about 5,000 years later their bodies would be on show in museums.
【小題1】The Great Pyramid is in ________.

A．China

B．Japan

C．Egypt

D．France

【小題2】 A pyramid is ______.

A．a house

B．a huge stone

C．a king’s tomb

D．the name of a museum

【小題3】The Great Pyramid is about _______ and made of _______ huge stones.

A．137 metres high; 100,000	B．137 high metres; 2,300,000
C．137 metres; 2,300,000	D．137 meters high; 2,300,000

【小題4】Pyramids are built for _______.

A．the kings

B．the queens（皇后）

C．the kings' teachers

D．People

【小題5】The kings thought they had the pyramids built to keep their bodies until _________.

A．they came home	B．they became alive
C．they die	D．they were on show in museums

Answer 1

【小題1】C
【小題2】C
【小題3】D
【小題4】A
【小題5】B

解析試題分析：這篇短文講解了埃及的金字塔中的大金字塔的情況。包括塔高、石塊原料以及建造的代價等；最后介紹了埃及國王當初建造金字塔的目的以及今天的發展狀況。
【小題1】細節理解題。根據第一段If you go to Egypt, you’ll see a lot of pyramids. The biggest of all is the Great Pyramid.可知大金字塔在埃及；故選C。
【小題2】推理判斷題。根據第二段中The Egyptian kings told the people to build the pyramids for themselves. They thought they had tombs （墳墓）strong enough to keep their bodies well until they came back to life.可知埃及國王讓人們為他們自己建造金字塔一存放尸體；故選C。
【小題3】細節判斷題。根據第一段It is about 137 meters high and made of 2,300,000 big stones.可知大金字塔高達137米，由230萬塊石頭制成；故選D。
【小題4】細節理解題。由第二段第一句The Egyptian kings told the people to build the pyramids for themselves.可知金字塔是國王為自己制造的；故選A。
【小題5】細節理解題。由第二段They thought they had tombs （墳墓）strong enough to keep their bodies well until they came back to life.他們建金字塔是為他們復活之前存放尸體準備的；故選B。
考點：歷史類短文閱讀。