英语美文学语法 词汇.doc

Nazca plateau The Nazca plateau in Peru is a barren and unwelcoming landscape. But it contains one of the great mysteries of our world. The desert floor is covered with thousands of lines, geometrical figures and hundreds of pictures and spirals—like a leaf from a sketchbook.. Straight lines, many kilometers long, figures hundreds of meters in length and breadth. The drawings were created by removal of the surface layer of dark stones, to reveal the lighter layer beneath. Who cut the stones away to create these strange pictures? And what is their significance? The lines and figures can really