《新版新概念英语第二册(英音)Lesson (77)》歌词

[00:00:01] --- lesson 77 a successful operation

[00:00:08] --- first listen and then answer the question.

[00:00:14] --- did the doctors find out how the woman died?

[00:00:20] the mummy of an egyptian woman who died in 800 b.c. has just had an operation.

[00:00:29] the mummy is that of shepenmut who was once a singer in the temple of thebes.

[00:00:38] as there were strange marks on the x-ray plates taken of the mummy,

[00:00:44] doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease.

[00:00:50] the only way to do this was to operate.

[00:00:53] the operation, which lasted for over four hours, proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin.

[00:01:03] the doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory.

[00:01:09] they also found something which the x-ray plates did not show: a small wax figure of the god duamutef.

[00:01:20] this god which has the head of a cow was normally placed inside a mummy.

[00:01:27] the doctors have not yet decided how the woman died.

[00:01:31] they feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open, but fortunately this has not happened.

[00:01:39] the mummy successfully survived the operation.

[00:01:44] --- end