【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[听力原文] American researchers have discovered the world's oldest paved road, a 4,600-year-old highway. It linked a stone pit in the Egyptian desert to waterways that carried blocks to monument sites along the Nile. The eight-mile road is at least 500 years older than any previously discovered road. 'It is the only paved road discovered in ancient Egypt,' said geologist Thomas Bown of the United States Geological Survey. He reported the discovery on Friday. 'The road probably doesn't rank with the pyramids as a construction feat, but it is a major engineering achievement,' said his colleague, geologist James Harrell, of the University of Toledo. 'Not only is the road earlier than we thought possible, we didn't even think they built roads.' The researchers also made a discovery in the stone pit at the northern end of the road: the first evidence that the Egyptians used rock saws. 'This is the oldest example of saws being used for cutting stone,' said Bown's colleague, James Hoffmeier, of Wheaton College in Illinois. 'That's two technologies we didn't know they had,' Harrell said. 'And we don't know why they were both abandoned.' The road was discovered in the Faiyum Depression, about 45 miles southwest of Cairo. 'Short segments of the road had been observed by earlier explorers,' Bown said, 'but they failed to realize its significance or follow up on their observations.' Bown and his colleagues stumbled across it while they were doing geological mapping in the region. The road was clearly built to provide services for the newly discovered stone pit. Bown and Harrell have found the camp that housed workers at the stone pit. The road appears today to go nowhere, ending in the middle of the desert. When it was built, its terminal was a dock on the shore of Lake Moeris, which had an elevation of about 66 feet above sea level, the same as the dock. Lake Moeris received its water from the annual floods of the Nile. At the time of the floods, the river and lake were at the same level and connected through a gap in the hills near the modem villages of el-Lahun and Hawara. Harrell and Bown believe that blocks were loaded onto barges during the dry season, then floated over to the Nile during the floods to be shipped off to the monument sites at Giza and Saqqara. Q: What do we learn from the lecture about the world's oldest paved road in Egypt? 四个选项的主语均为it，描述的都是it的情况与相关信息。听录音时，需要听清楚it的指代对象，注意与各选项信息相关的细节内容。 本题询问关于埃及世界上最古老的铺面道路，我们能了解到哪些信息。录音开头部分指出，美国研究人员发现了世界上最古老的铺面道路。然后提到公路的作用：将位于埃及沙漠内的一座采石场和一些水路连接起来。这与选项D的说法一致，故D为正确答案。其余选项均与原文表述不符。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文] Q: What did the researchers discover in the stone pit? 四项都是名词短语，推测本题考查某个物品或发现，可能以what开头提问。 题目问研究人员在采石场发现了什么。原文提到，研究人员在公路北端的采石场发现了埃及人使用切石锯的最早证据，并进一步指出这是锯子被用来切割石头的最早的例子。选项A的说法与原文内容一致，故为正确答案。文章后半部分提到，研究者发现了采石场工人的营地遗址，而不是早前勘探者留下的痕迹，故选项B为对原文的曲解。选项C和D原文没有提及，故都可排除。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[听力原文] Q: For what purpose was the paved road built? 四项都以动词不定式to开头，表示目的。本题可能以why或者for what开头提问，听录音时要注意听各选项的关键信息，即与不定式(to transport，to provide，to link，to connect)有关的内容。 本题问建造这条最早的铺面道路的目的。录音的后半部分提到了修建这条路是为了服务当时新发现的采石场。接着介绍了这条公路的终点和在洪水季节如何利用水路将石料运送至目的地。采石场的石料被运送到位于公路终端的摩里斯湖畔，人们在旱季的时候先将石料装船，等到洪水来临的时候利用洪水再将石料运送至吉萨和塞加拉的金字塔建筑工地。故选B。A、C、D三个选项原文均未提及，故排除。