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The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the Wonders of the Ancient World. It was built more than 4,000 years ago in Egypt. It is so (1) p that millions of tourists from around the world come to visit it every year. In Egypt there are over 80 pyramids and the Great Pyramid is the (2) l one among them. It lies on the west bank of the River Nile. The ancient Egyptians compared the rising of the sun to the (3) b of life and the setting of the sun to the end of life. That is (4) w their dead bodies were buried on the west bank of the Nile.
You can (5) h imagine how huge the Great Pyramid is. It has over 2 million blocks. Some blocks are as (6) h as five school buses. (7) A they were heavy, the ancient workers were able to (8) p a block into the pyramid every three minutes.
Those workers, Egyptian men and women, worked in teams. Different teams had different tasks. There were so many different teams to make sure that the pyramid was built perfectly and no stone was in the (9) w position.
But how did the Egyptians move those heavy stones to the top easily (10) w any modern machines? No one knows for sure. Many things about the Great Pyramid still remain a mystery.

(1) popular
(2) largest
(3) beginning
(4) why
(5) hardly
(6) heavy
(7) Although
(8) put
(9) wrong
(10) without

1. 根据后文“millions of tourists from around the world come to visit it every year”可知，金字塔十分受欢迎，结合首字母p，填popular。
2. 前文表明埃及有80多座金字塔，而大金字塔是其中规模最大的，结合首字母l，填largest。
3. 古埃及人将日出比作生命的开端，与后文的“end（终结）”形成对应，结合首字母b，填beginning。
4. 前文内容是在解释古埃及人把墓地选在尼罗河西岸的原因，此处用That is why...结构来引出结果，结合首字母w，填why。
5. 结合语境“你几乎无法想象金字塔有多么巨大”，hardly表示“几乎不”，符合语义，结合首字母h，填hardly。
6. 后文提到“as five school buses”，是在描述石块的重量，结合首字母h，填heavy。
7. 前后分句为转折关系，指“虽然石块很重，但是古埃及工人仍能完成作业”，结合首字母A，填Although。
8. “put a block into the pyramid”表示将石块安置到金字塔中，符合语境，结合首字母p，填put。
9. 根据“make sure that the pyramid was built perfectly”可知，要确保没有石块处于错误的位置，结合首字母w，填wrong。
10. 语境意为“没有现代机器的情况下”，结合首字母w，填without。