(a) I’m Faith Lapidus. And I’m Steve
with
in VOA Special English. Today we
some of the
about the ancient mysterious
in Britain ****** Stonehenge.
(b) Scientists
the ***** of ***** called Stonehenge has
in England for at
. In modern times, millions of people from all over the world have
the ancient
.
(c)
believe the builders of Stonehenge knew about design, engineering and
. These ancient people did not have highly developed
. But they built a huge ******** of heavy
. One of the largest ****** weighed about forty ********* kilograms.
(d) Stonehenge is the
known of a number of
ancient places in Britain. It stands on the
,
Salisbury
, near the city of Salisbury, England. Most of the ******* of Stonehenge stand in
of ******. They
in height, weight and surface texture. For centuries, people have questioned the
of the *******.
(e) Early Britons built Stonehenge from bluestone and a very hard sandstone called sarcen. Some of the monument's
****** have
******* on top. The *******
****** on the ******* stones. Some ********* ******* are more than
meters high. Other,
******* lie on the ground.
(f) Work on Stonehenge may have
as early as five ******** ******* ago. Scientists believe it was
over
periods lasting more than one ******* ******. Archeologists have studied Stonehenge for many *******. Their research helped make possible the building of an
, full-size
or
of the mysterious
.
(g) A
company, the National Geographic Channel,
for the ******. One
was to
more about Stonehenge. And National Geographic Channel filmmakers wanted to
the process. The result was a television film
"Rebuilding Stonehenge" or more simply, "Stonehenge.”
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