Scientists scanning and mapping the Giza pyramids say they've discovered that the Great Pyramid of Giza is not exactly even. But really not by much. This pyramid is the oldest of the world's Seven Wonders. The pyramid's exact size has 26 experts for centuries, as the "more than 21 acres of hard, white casing stones" that originally covered it were 27 long ago. Reporting in the most recent issue of the newsletter "AERAGRAM," which 28 the work of the ancient Egypt research Associates, engineer Glen Dash says his team used a new measuring approach that involved finding any surviving 29 of the casing in order to determine where the original edge was. They found the east side of the pyramid to be a 30 of 5.5 inches shorter than the west side.
The question that most 31 him, however, isn't how the Egyptians who designed and built the pyramid got it wrong 4,500 years ago, but how they got it so close to 32 . "We can only speculate as to how the Egyptians could have laid out these lines with such 33 using only the tools they had," Dash writes. He says his 34 is that the Egyptians laid out their design on a grid, noting that the great pyramid is oriented only 35 away from the cardinal directions (its north-south axis runs 3 minutes 54 seconds west of due north, while its east-west axis runs 3 minutes 51 seconds north of due east)—an amount that's "tiny, but similar," archeologist Atlas Obscura points out.
A) chronicles B) complete
C) established D) fascinates
E) hypothesis F) maximum
G) momentum H) mysteriously
I) perfect J) precision
K) puzzled L) remnants
M) removed N) revelations
O) slightly
答案解析：
26. K根据...the pyramid's exact size has 26 experts for centuries...”，可知此处需要一个动词，表达“金字塔的确切尺寸对专家们造成了某种影响”。后文解释说，因为外壳石料早已不在，所以专家们无法确定其精确尺寸，这自然会让他们感到“困惑”。所以选 puzzled 。
27. M根据...as the "more than 21 acres of hard, white casing stones" that originally covered it were ___ long ago.”，可知此处需要一个被动语态的动词，描述外壳石料的命运。根据历史常识和上下文，这些石料是后来被“移走”的，所以才导致现代专家难以测量。所以选 removed 。
28. A根据...Reporting in the most recent issue of the newsletter "AERAGRAM," which ___ the work of the Ancient Egypt Research Associates...”，可知此处需要一个动词，描述这份简报(newsletter)与埃及古物研究协会工作的关系。简报的功能通常是“记录”或“报道”相关领域的工作进展。所以选 chronicles 。
29. L根据...involved finding any surviving ___ of the casing in order to determine where the original edge was.”，可知此处需要一个名词，指代那些“幸存下来的”外壳部分。既然外壳大部分已经不在，那么他们寻找的必然是“残余物”或“遗迹”。所以选 remnants 。
30. F根据...They found the east side of the pyramid to be a ___ of 5.5 inches shorter than the west side.”，可知此处需要一个名词，与“5.5英寸”搭配，表示东边比西边短的“量”或“程度”。这里描述的是一个具体的、可测量的差异数值，用“最大量”或“差值”来描述是合理的。所以选 maximum 。
31. D根据...The question that most ___ him, however, isn't how...they got it wrong... but how they got it so close to ___ .”，可知此处需要一个动词，表达这个问题对Glen Dash的影响。后文用“not...but...”结构强调，真正让他着迷的不是错误，而是惊人的精确度。所以选 fascinates 。
32. I根据...but how they got it so close to ___ .”，可知此处需要一个形容词，与“close to”搭配，并与前文的“wrong”形成对比。金字塔的建造虽然不是绝对精确，但已经非常接近“完美”了。所以选 perfect 。
33. J根据...We can only speculate as to how the Egyptians could have laid out these lines with such ___ using only the tools they had...”，可知此处需要一个名词，描述埃及人用简陋工具就能达到的水平。后文提到的微小偏差，恰恰证明了他们拥有极高的“精确度”。所以选 precision 。
34. E根据...He says his ___ is that the Egyptians laid out their design on a grid...”，可知此处需要一个名词，指代Dash提出的解释。后文的内容是他基于观察提出的一个科学性的“猜想”或“假说”，而非已被证实的结论。所以选 hypothesis 。
35. O根据...noting that the great pyramid is oriented only ___ away from the cardinal directions...”，可知此处需要一个副词，修饰“away from”，说明偏离的程度。后文用具体的分钟和秒数(3分多)来量化这个偏差，表明这个偏离量非常“轻微”。所以选 slightly 。
