Question

    巨石阵的未解之谜

The stone ring at Stonehenge is a famous sight for tourists in Britain.

One thing we know 1. (exact) about Stonehenge is that it was completed 3500 years ago. Experts think that originally there were 30 stones, 2. only 17 remain standing.

One of the main 3. (fact)that we don't know about Stonehenge is why it was put there. Perhaps it might have been a place for 4. (watch) the stars and planets. And we also don't know how Stonehenge was 5. (build). Some of the stones came from 200 kilometers away and some of them w6. 40 tons. We quite wonder how the workers 7. (manage) to get these huge stones into an upright position at that time，but we think that workers must have used ropes to pull them u8. . But how did the stones get there in the9. (one) place? 10. answer may be told in the future.

Answer

1.exactly

2.but

3.facts

4.watching

5.built

6.weighed

7.managed

8.up

9.first

10.The

【解析】

主旨大意：本文是一篇说明文。介绍了英国的巨石阵的未解之谜。它是被用来做什么的？它又是如何建成的？这些未解之谜也许会在将来被解开。

1.句意为：关于巨石阵我们清楚地知道它在3500年之前建成的。由句子结构可知，此处修饰动词know需用副词形式。故填exactly。

2.句意为：专家认为最开始有30个石头，________仅有17个依然矗立在那儿。根据前后句语境可知，此处表示转折关系。需用转折连词。故填but。

3. 句意为：主要的事实之一是我们不知道它们为什么被放置在那里。由one of可知，此处需填可数名词复数形式。故填facts。

4.句意为：或许，它是一个看星星和星球的地方。介词for后跟动名词形式。故填watching。

5.句意为：并且，我们也不知道巨石阵是如何被建造的。根据语境可知，巨石阵是被建的，需用被动语态。根据空前的was可知，此处需用动词的过去分词形式。故填built。

6.句意为：有些石头来自200千米之外的地方，它们中的有些重40吨。根据语境及首字母提示可知，此处指“重40吨，且为一般过去时”。故填weighed。

7.句意为：我们极其想知道工人们当时是如何设法把这些巨大的石头直立起来的……根据语境可知，此处表示过去发生的事，应用一般过去时。故填managed。

8.句意为：……但是我们认为工人们一定用绳子把石头直立了起来。pull up直立，为固定搭配。故填up。

9.句意为：但是石头最初怎么到达那里的呢？由空后名词place可知，此处需填序数词作定语。故填first。

10.句意为：答案在未来可能被揭晓。此处特指回答开始的问题，需用定冠词。故填The。注意句首单词首字母需大写。