2014-2015学年高中英语 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors Listening练习 新人教版选修8.docVIP

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 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 somebody ______ 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 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 basket. _____ 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. 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: 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 ol