A Sphinx(狮身人面像) is a mythological creature with the body of a lion and the head of a person. The most famous Sphinx is the Great Sphinx of Giza. It is one of the largest and oldest statues in the world. 36_____________ The Great Sphinx faces the sunrise and guards the pyramid tombs of Giza.
37_____________ It is 241 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 66 feet high. The eyes on the face are 6 feet tall, the ears over three feet tall, and the nose would have been nearly 5 feet long before it was knocked off.
Over the past 4,500 years weather and erosion(侵蚀) have damaged the Great Sphinx. It is really amazing that so much of it is left for us to see. 38_____________ It had a long beard and a nose. It also was painted in bright colors. Archeologists think that the face and body were painted red, and the beard was blue.
39_____________ No one is entirely sure exactly how the nose got knocked off. There are stories that Napoleon’s men accidentally knocked off the nose while other stories have the nose getting shot off in target practice by Turkish soldiers.
After the Sphinx was built, over the course of the next 1,000 years it fell into disrepair. 40 _____________ Legend has it that a young prince named Thutmose fell asleep near the head of the Sphinx. He had a dream where he was told that if he restored the Sphinx he would become Pharaoh(法老) of Egypt. Thutmose restored the Sphinx and later became Pharaoh of Egypt.
A. The Great Sphinx is huge!
B. What happened to its nose？
C. The original Sphinx would have looked a lot different
D. It is widely believed that it was carved around 2,500 BC.
E. The Great Sphinx is believed by some scholars to have a beard.
F. The entire body was covered in sand and only the head could be seen
G. Efforts are being made to preserve the Sphinx, but it continues to erode.
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