The people of Mexico also built pyramids(金字塔). They didn't build them for tombs(墓). They built a pyramid and then built a temple(廟)on top of it. The pyramids of Mexico are not as high as the pyramids of Egypt, but they are big enough.

  The biggest pyramid in Mexico is almost 2,000 years old. Scientists think it took 10,000 men more than ten years to build it. How were the people of Mexico able to build the pyramids thousands of years ago? How did they carry and lift the huge stones? Each stone fits so well and they didn't have our modern machines! Nobody can tell how they were built. 

Choose the best answer

 

(1) The pyramids in Mexico were built by ________.

[  ]

Athe people of Mexico

Bthe people of Egypt

Cthe scientists

DAmerican people

(2) The pyramids of Mexico are ________ the pyramids of Egypt.

[  ]

Ahigher than

Bas high as

Clower than

Das low as

(3) It took ________ years to build the biggest pyramid in Mexico.

[  ]

Amore than ten

Bten

Cmore than 2,000

Dalmost 2,000

(4) ________ how the people of Mexico built their pyramids.

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AEverybody knows

BSome scientists can tell

CMany of us can tell

DNobody knows

(5) The biggest pyramid of Mexico has a history of ________.

[  ]

Aone thousand years

Babout two thousand years

Cmore than two thousand years

Dfifteen hundred years

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