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ting discovery was made by archaeologists on the Aegean island of Kea. An American team explored a temple which stands in an ancient city on the promontory of Ayia Irini. The city at one time must have been prosperous, for it enjoyed a high level of civilization. Houses often three storeys high were built of stone. They had large rooms with beautifully decorated walls. The city was even equipped with a drainage system, for a great many clay pipes were found beneath the narrow streets.The temple which the archaeologists explored was used as a place of worship from the fifteenth century l0 . until Roman times. In the most sacred room of the temple, clay fragments of fifteen statues were found. Each of these represented a goddess and had, at one time, been painted. The body of one statue was found among remains dating from the fifteenth century B39。Step 1 單詞都在文中標(biāo)出了,大家發(fā)揮一下想象和推理能力,猜猜那些生詞都是什么意思吧。閱讀中非常需要這種猜測推理能力的哦。C. Its missing head happened to be among remains of the fifth century . This head must have been found in Classical times and carefully preserved. It was very old and precious even then. When the archaeologists reconstructed the fragments, they were amazed to fin, that the goddess turned out to be a very modernlooking woman. She stood three feet high and her hand rested on her hips. She was wearing a fulllength skirt which swept the ground. Despite her great age, she was very graceful indeed, but, so far, the archaeologists have been unable to discover her identity一個美國考古隊在阿伊亞?依里尼海角的一座古城里考察了一座廟宇。里面房間很大,墻壁裝飾華麗。在廟中最神圣的一問殿堂里發(fā)現(xiàn)了l5尊陶制雕像的碎片。其中有一尊雕像,她的軀體是在公元前l(fā)5世紀(jì)的歷史文物中發(fā)現(xiàn)的,而她那身首異處的腦袋卻碰巧是在公元前5世紀(jì)的文物中找到的。即使在當(dāng)時,它也屬歷史悠久的珍奇之物。她身高3英尺.雙手叉腰,身穿一條拖地長裙,盡管上了年紀(jì),但體態(tài)確實優(yōu)美。Step看看你都猜對了么?5goddess 女神archaeologist 考古學(xué)家Aegean 愛琴海的explore 考察promontory 海角prosperous 繁榮的civilization 文明storey 樓層drainage 排水worship 崇拜sacred 宗教的fragment 碎片remains 遺跡classical 古文化的reconstruct