Question

【題目】閱讀短文，回答問題及翻譯劃線部分的句子。

The Great Sphinx(獅身人面) is a lion with the head of a person.It's a statue(雕像) located in Egypt.Some people think that there is a hidden area inside the sphinx for people to enter.But no one has found a way to get inside.

There is a story about a young man who fell asleep next to the Great Sphinx.He had gone hunting(打獵) in the daytime and he was tired.The man had a dream that he would be the king of Egypt if he cleaned the sand away from the sphinx.①At__that__time，the__Great__Sphinx__was__covered__up__with__sand. ②但是這個(gè)故事沒有結(jié)局。Did the man clean the sand away from the Great Sphinx？Did he become the king of Egypt？No one seems to know.

The statue is very large.The head is 30 feet long and 14 feet wide.

Wind and sand have worn(磨損) parts of the statue away.These parts will be rebuilt to look as good as new.

【1】What does the Great Sphinx look like?

【2】What did the young man do in the daytime?

【3】Why does the statue need to rebuild?

【4】將劃線①譯成漢語。

【5】將劃線②譯成英語。

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】 A lion with the head of a person.

【2】 He went hunting.

【3】 Because wind and sand have worn parts of the statue away./Because some parts of it have been worn.

【4】 那時(shí)，獅身人面像被沙子覆蓋。

【5】 But the story doesn't have an ending.

【解析】

【1】根據(jù)文章第一句The Great Sphinx(獅身人面) is a lion with the head of a person.可知獅身人面是有著人頭的獅子雕像，故回答A lion with the head of a person.

【2】根據(jù)文章第二段He had gone hunting(打獵) in the daytime and he was tired.可知他白天出去打獵，故回答He went hunting.

【3】根據(jù)文章最后一句Wind and sand have worn(磨損) parts of the statue away. These parts will be rebuilt to look as good as new.可知雕像需要重建是因?yàn)轱L(fēng)沙已經(jīng)磨損了雕像的一部分，故回答Because wind and sand have worn parts of the statue away./Because some parts of it have been worn.

【4】At that time意思是在那時(shí)，be covered with被…覆蓋，這是被動語態(tài)，was covered with sand被沙子覆蓋，故翻譯為：那時(shí)，獅身人面像被沙子覆蓋。

【5】沒有結(jié)局has no ending/ doesn’t have an ending, 用but表示轉(zhuǎn)折，故翻譯為：But the story doesn't have an ending.

本文屬于閱讀短文回答問題，回答問題之前需要快速瀏覽短文，了解故事大意，再帶著具體問題，找到答案在原文中的位置，根據(jù)問題要求回答問題；例如第1小題，問題是獅身人面是什么樣子的，根據(jù)文章第一句The Great Sphinx(獅身人面) is a lion with the head of a person.可知獅身人面是有著人頭的獅子雕像，故回答：A lion with the head of a person.