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A full moon was shining down on the jungle. Accompanied only by an Indian guide, the American explorer and archaeologist Edward
A full moon was shining down on the jungle. Accompanied only by an Indian guide, the American explorer and archaeologist Edward
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2010-02-20
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A full moon was shining down on the jungle. Accompanied only by an Indian guide, the American explorer and archaeologist Edward Herbert Thompson -- thirteen hundred years after the Mayas had left their cities and made a break for the country farther north-was riding through the New Empire that they had built for themselves, which had collapsed after the arrival of the Spaniards. He was searching for Chichen-Irza, the largest, most beautiful, mightiest, and most splendid of all Mayan cities. Horses and men had been suffering intense hardships on the trail. Thompson’s head sagged on his breast from fatigue, and each time his horse stumbled he all but fell out of the saddle. Suddenly his guide shouted to him. Thompson woke up with a start. He looked ahead and saw a fairyland.
Above the dark treetops rose a mound, high and steep, and on top of the mound was a temple, bathed in cool moon light. In the hush of the night it towered over the treetops like the Parthenon of some Mayan acropolis. It seemed to grow in size as they approached. The Indian guide dismounted, unsaddled his horse, and roiled out his blanket for the night’s sleep. Thompson could not tear his fascinated gaze from the great structure. While the guide prepared his bed, he sprang from his horse and continued on foot. Steep stairs overgrown with grass and bushes, and in part fallen into ruins, led from the base of the mound up to the temple. Thompson was acquainted with this architectural from, which was obviously some kind of pyramid. He was familiar, too, with the function of pyramids as knows in Egypt. But this Mayan version was not a tomb , like the Pyramids of Gizeh. Externally it rather brought to mind a ziggurat, but to a much greater degree than the Babylonian ziggurats it seemed to consist mostly of a stony fill providing support for the enormous stairs rising higher and higher, towards the gods of the sun and moon.
Thompson climbed up the steps. He looked at the ornamentation, the rich reliefs. On top, almost 96 feet above the jungle, he surveyed the scene. He counted one -- two -- three -- a half-dozen scattered buildings, halfhidden in shadow, often revealed by nothing more than a gleam of moonlight stone.
This, then, was Chichen-Itza. From its original status as advance outpost at the beginning of the great trek to the north, it had grown into a shining metropolis, the heart of the New Empire. Again and again during the next few days Thompson climbed on to the old ruins. "I stood upon the roof of this temple one morning," he writes, "just as the first rays of the sun reddened the distant horizon. The morning stillness was profound. The noises of the night had ceased, and those of the day were not yet begun, All the sky above and the earth below seemed to be breathlessly waiting for something, Then the great round sun came up, flaming splendidly, and instantly the whole world sang and hummed. The birds in the trees and the insects on the ground sang a grand Te Deum, Nature herself taught primal man to be a sunworshipper and man in his heart of hearts still follows the ancient teaching."
Thompson stood where he was, immobile and enchanted. The jungle melted away before his gaze. Wide spaces opened up, processions crept up to the temple site, music sounded, palaces became filled with revelling, the temples hummed with religious adjuration. He tried to recognize detail in the billowing forest. Then suddenly he was no longer bemused. The cur rain of fancy dropped with a crash; the vision of the past vanished. The archaeologist had recognized his task. For out there in the jungle green he could distinguish a narrow path, barely traced out in the weak light, a path that might lead to Chichen-Itza’s most exciting mystery: the Sacred Well.
What was Thompson’s first reaction to the scene ahead?
选项
A、He remained in the saddle for several minutes spellbound.
B、He immediately jumped down and went forward.
C、He waited until his bed was ready and then dismounted.
D、He rode to the mound and stared at the structure before him.
答案
A
解析
该题问:Thompson对前头这个景致的第一个反应是什么?A项意为“他在马鞍上停了几分钟,被迷惑了”,从第二段中可以找到答案Thompson could not tear his fascinated gaze from the great structure。因此A项为正确答案。B项意为“他立即跳下马,向前行”,文中写的是While the guide prepared his bed,he sprang from his horse and continued on foot,因此B项不正确。C项意为“他一直等到床准备好,才跳下马来”,本文没有写他“wait”,故C项不正确。D项意为“他骑到小山丘上,凝视着他面前的建筑”,文中没有提及,因此D项不正确。
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