题型:选词填空(语篇) 题类: 难易度:困难
上海市金山区张堰第二中学2023-2024学年八年级上学期12月英语月考试卷
A. signs B. solved C. showed D. looking E. hundreds of F. to teach |
Jean Champollion was very good at languages. He learnt twelve languages in his life. When he was eighteen , he began history(历史) at university. He was younger than many of his students.
Jean was very interested in ancient Egypt and in 1821he began to study the Rosetta Stone(罗塞塔石碑). A group of soldiers found this stone at Rosetta when Jean was still a young boy. It was under the sand for years before the soldiers dug it up (挖出来). There was a lot of strange writing on the stone. The writing was a message in three languages. One of the languages was ancient Egyptian. No one could read it at that time. But Jean its secret.
The ancient Egyptian was not a language with letters and words like English. It was full of . According to many experts (专家) , these signs showed things and ideas. Jean did not completely agree. He thought some of them sounds. He found 15 signs of this kind in his study of Rosetta Stone. Today, it is possible to understand ancient Egyptian from 4, 000 years ago because of Jean's discovery (发现).
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