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

* Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors 注: 另附 word 文档。 点击此处链接 Listen to Part 1. DATING METHODS Zhou Heping (ZH) has come to ask the archaeologist, Richard Leakey (RL), how he dates the bones he finds. 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. Listen again and fill in the blanks. bones two second work basket skin 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 ______. threw finally many four 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 first oldest last recent envelopes produced Each 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! long colour how Listen to Part 2. 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 _