[al:新概念英语（二）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:A Successful Operation] [by:更多学习内容，请到chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:14.85]Did the doctors find out how the woman died? [00:21.36]The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation. [00:30.21]The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes. [00:39.29]As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy, [00:44.62]doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease. [00:50.65]The only way to do this was to operate. [00:54.05]The operation, which lasted for over four hours, [00:57.56]proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin. [01:04.26]The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory. [01:09.97]They also found something which the X-ray plates did not show: a small wax figure of the god Duamutef. [01:20.83]This god which has the head of a cow was normally placed inside a mummy. [01:27.64]The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died. [01:31.64]They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open, [01:36.32]but fortunately this has not happened. [01:39.74]The mummy successfully survived the operation.