全文 10 句（男女对话）· 14 个生词和短语（加粗 + 红色音标 / 词性 / 释义）
作者1. The mummy /'mʌmi/ n. 木乃伊 of an Egyptian /ɪ'dʒɪpʃn/ adj. 埃及的 woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation.
作者2. The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple /'tempəl/ n. 庙 of Thebes.
作者3. As there were strange marks /mɑːks/ n. 斑点 on the X-ray plates /'eksreɪ-pleɪts/ n. X 光片 taken of the mummy, doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease /dɪ'ziːz/ n. 疾病.
作者4. The only way to do this was to operate.
作者5. The operation, which lasted /'lɑːstɪd/ v. 持续 for over four hours, proved /pruːvd/ v. 显示出 to be very difficult because of the hard resin /'rezɪn/ n. 树脂 which covered the skin /skɪn/ n. 皮肤.
作者6. The doctors removed a section /'sekʃn/ n. 切片 of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory.
作者7. They also found something which the X-ray plates did not show: a small wax figure /'fɪɡə/ n. （人的）体形；人像 of the god Duamutef.
作者8. This god which has the head of a cow was normally /'nɔːməli/ adv. 通常地 placed inside a mummy.
作者9. The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died. They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open, but fortunately this has not happened.
作者10. The mummy successfully survived /sə'vaɪvd/ v. 幸免于 the operation.
作者1. 死于公元前800年的一位埃及妇女的木乃伊刚刚接受了一次手术。
作者2. 这是一具叫谢佩恩穆特的木乃伊，她曾是底比斯神庙里的一名歌手。
作者3. 由于在这具木乃伊拍摄的X光片上有奇怪的斑点，所以医生们一直试图搞清这位妇女是否死于一种罕见的疾病。
作者4. 弄清这一点唯一的办法就是做手术。
作者5. 手术持续了4个多小时，非常难做，因为皮肤上覆盖着一层硬硬的树脂。
作者6. 医生们从木乃伊上切下一块切片，送进了实验室。
作者7. 他们还发现了一样X光片没有显示出来的东西：一个很小的蜡制神像杜阿穆特夫。
作者8. 这种头长得像母牛的神像通常被放在木乃伊里面。
作者9. 医生们至今还未确定这位妇女的死因。他们担心在把木乃伊切开时会碎成碎片，但幸运的是，这种情况没有发生。
作者10. 这具木乃伊成功地经受了这次手术。