2014-2015學(xué)年高中英語 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestorsListening練習(xí) 新人教版選修

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1、 Using Language DATING METHODS Zhou Heping (ZH) has come to ask the archaeologist, Richard Leakey (RL), how he dates the bones he finds. Listen to Part 1. Listen again and fill in the blanks. ZH: How can you tell how old ______ are when you find them? RL: There are ____ main ways: the first

2、uses the layers in the ground and the ______ uses radiocarbon dating. ZH: I see. How does the layer method ____? RL: Well, look at the diagram in your book. Think of a wastepaper ______. When you came into work, you ate an orange and threw the orange _____ into it. That’s layer number 1. Later som

3、ebody ______ some yogurt pots into it. That’s layer number 2. ZH: Oh yes, and then I threw some paper into it. So that’s layer number 3. RL: Yes, and ______ someone threw away some used envelopes. So how ______ layers are there in this wastepaper basket? ZH: There are ______. RL: Which layer is

4、the ____ and therefore the _______? ZH: The orange skin. RL: And which is the _____ and therefore the most _______? ZH: Of course – the used _________. I see how it works now. But how does it help? RL: Well, layers of soil are __________ at different times like the layers in your wastepaper ba

5、sket. _____ time people live somewhere, they make a layer in the soil. If they live there for a _____ time, they make a lot of layers. Each layer has a different _______ and texture which we use to find out ____ old it is. ZH: How splendid! Listen to Part 2. Listen again and fill in the blanks.

6、 ZH: Now what about radiocarbon ______? RL: This is more ________. It uses radioactivity to measure the amount of carbon in living things. The carbon in a dead body ___________ at a fixed rate. We know how long that takes, so we can _______ the amount of carbon and work out how old a bone is. ZH:

7、Thats very clever. Is it ________ too? RL: There are some problems with very old bones, so you are always given ____ dates. ZH: How does that work? RL: Well, the date for a bone may be between _____ years and ______ years old. ZH: I see! How old are the bones in the Zhoukoudian ______? RL: The

8、y are between ________ and ________ years old. ZH: Perhaps we could visit the _____ together sometime? RL: Of course. Whenever you like! Workbook-Listening MORE NEWS ABOUT THE TERRACOTTA WARRIORS 2 / 5 Amanda Peters (AP) wants to find out about how to preserve the terracotta warriors from he

9、r Chinese friend, Zhou Lei (ZL), an archaeologist. Listen again and fill in the blanks. AP: Where did you go for your ________, Zhou Lei? ZL: I went to visit the terracotta warriors and found out more about the research to _________ the statues. AP: You’re so lucky! Id love to go and see them ve

10、ry much. Making figures that are ____ metres tall is amazing! They must be such an __________ sight. It makes you realize how _________ Emperor Qin Shihuang was. ZL: Yes, indeed. And each of them has an individual _____ so that archaeologists think they must have been a _____ of Qin Shihuang’s real

11、 army. But _____ thousand statues are a lot of clay figures to _______ and there have been problems. AP: Oh dear! What problems? ZL: Well, the first problem is how to keep their _______. Chinese archaeologists _____ discovered that the statues were painted before they were ______. But temperature

12、changed and _______ soon faded the colours after the statues were __________. AP: _____ did that happen? ZL: First, some of them became a little bit _______ when they dried out after being excavated and that made their colour disappear _______. Second, the damp in the tomb also _______ the colours

13、 badly. But now _______ the scientists have discovered a new ________ protection, which will keep the colours ________ brightly. AP: That’s wonderful _______. ZL: Yes. It’s a very thin layer of chemical jelly which will preserve the _____ colours of the soldiers as well as protect them _______ the

14、 damp. AP: That’s great. So the problem’s _______. But Im afraid that those statues that lost their colour can’t get it ______? ZL: Sadly, no. But this breakthrough has helped deal with ________ problem. AP: Whats that? ZL: Well, you know that the terracotta warriors were discovered in _____. Si

15、nce then the statues have suffered more than ______ different kinds of mould all caused by damp. AP: That sounds really _______. I didn’t know clay statues could suffer from mould! Did it happen _______ they were excavated or after? ZL: After they were excavated, damp _______ the excavation area.

16、The moulds developed quickly and need different kinds of _________. AP: Oh, how terrible! Can we do something to _____ the warriors and make them safe? ZL: Well, this jelly will help protect them _______ some moulds. AP: Oh! Is there anything else that ________ people can do to help? ... (fade ou

17、t) Workbook-Listening Task INTERVIEWING “THE FATHER OF ARCHAEOLOGY” Wang Wei (WW), a Chinese student, is interviewing Professor Flinders Petrie (FP) about his work in Egypt. Listen again and fill in the blanks. WW: Hello, Professor Petrie. Could you please tell me _____ you want to dig ____

18、_ archaeological sites in Egypt instead of looking for new ______ of Egyptian pharaohs? FP: I suppose it was an ________ really. When I went there ______ people were looking for new tombs of the pharaohs. I _______ to investigate the life of poorer people as ________ else seemed interested in them!

19、 WW: What ____ of things did you find out? FP: What I found was that poorer people built their _______ with mud bricks. They used pottery for their ______ and storing things. I also found that poor people as well as rich people _______ in a life after death. They buried their dead _____ members in

20、 the sand with pots full of food ready to take on the ________ to the afterlife. WW: They also _______ to preserve the bodies very well. Whys that? FP: Because they believed the ______ of ones body went on the journey to the afterlife. So it was __________ to look after the body carefully after on

21、e was ______. WW: Did you find out ________ about this journey? FP: Not from the poorer people’s _______. But we found the journey painted on the ______ of the pyramids of the pharaohs and the ______ of the coffins of rich Egyptians. Later rich people described this journey in ______ they left in

22、 coffins. They are called “The Book of the Dead”, and although they were ______ in rolls of paper, you can still see them today. They tell you how to _________ evil gods and monsters on the journey to the afterlife and what to ______ when you came to the Hall of Judgement. WW: Was there a _____ of

23、some kind? FP: Yes, you had to prove the _______ of your life by weighing your heart against a ________. If your heart was lighter, it meant you had led a ______ life, and so you could enter the afterlife and live _______. But if it was not, you’d be _____ by the God Anubis and _________ forever. WW: My goodness. Im sure that made people _______ themselves ... (fade out) 希望對大家有所幫助，多謝您的瀏覽！