Lesson 77 A successful operation 一例成功的手术 Read the passage and then answer the question.阅读短文，然后回答以下问题。Did the doctors find out how the woman died?The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 B. C . has just had an operation. The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes. As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy, doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease. The only way to do this was to operate. The operation, which lasted for over four hours, proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin. The doctors removed a section of the mum my and sent it to a laboratory. They also found something which the X-ray plates did not show: a small wax figure of the god Duamutef. This god which has the head of a cow was normally placed inside a mummy. 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. T he mummy successfully survived the operation.New words and expressions 生词和短语mummy n.木乃伊 prove v.显示出Egyptian adj.埃及的 resin n.树脂temple n.庙 skin n.皮，皮肤mark n.斑点 section n.切片plate n.（照相）底片 figure n.（人的）体形；人像disease n.疾病 normally adv.通常地last v.持续 survive v.幸免于Notes on the text 课文注释1 800 B.C.,公元前 800 年。B.C.是 Before Christ 的缩略语。2 …plates taken of the mummy, taken 是过去分词作定语修饰 plates, take the plates of…作“给……拍片子”讲。3 die of…，因（患）……而死。4 The operation, which lasted for over four hours, proved to be very difficult.手术持续了 4 个多小时，非常难做。在这句话中 which 引导的从句是一个定语从...
