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1、如有侵权，请联系网站删除，仅供学习与交流新概念英语第三册第3课【精品文档】第 2 页3. An unknown goddessSome time ago, an interesting discover was made by archeologists on the Aegean island of Kea.An American team explored a temple which stands in an ancient city on the promontory of Ayia Irini.The city at one time must have been prosperou
2、s, for it enjoyed a high level of civilization.Houses-often three storeys high-were built of stone.They had large rooms with beautifully decorated walls.The city was even equipped with a drainage system, for a great many clay pipes were found beneath the narrow streets. /The temple which the archeol
3、ogists explored was used as a place of worship from the fifteenth century B.C. until Roman times.In the most sacred room of the temple, clay fragments of fifteen statue were found.Each of these represented a goddess and had, at one time, been painted.The body of one statue was found among remains da
4、ting from the fifteenth century B.C.Its missing head happened to be among remains of the fifth century B.C.This head must have been found in Classical times and carefully preserved.It was very old and precious even then.When the archeologists reconstructed the fragments, they were amazed to find tha
5、t the goddess turned out to be a very modern-looking woman.She stood three feet high and her hands rested on her hips.She was wearing a full-length skirt which swept the ground.Despite her great age, she was very graceful indeed, but, so far, the archeologists have been unable to discover her identity.