2019年公共英语三级试题：完形填空（6）

 　　One of the world * s oldest and most famous statues may not 1 much longer unless steps are 2 to save it. The huge forty-five 3 years old statue 4 as the Sphinx is 5 Egypt ’ s greatest national treasures. The statue of a lion * s body with a human head is 6 the great Pyramids of Egypt, west of Carlo. During the 7 years the Sphinx has 8 , wind and sand have 9 deep cuts in the sides of the huge statue and there are　10 through its body. The first 11 to fix the statue was made 12 thirty-four hundred years 13 . And　there is 14 of many more attempts to repair the 15 of wind and time. Scientists say the Sphinx now is 16 from something very similar 17 cancer in humans. An American scientist says that salt is the cancer,　18 was used to 19 the Sphinx in the past. When the stone is wet, the large amount of salt in the　statue 20