高中英语人教版新课标必修八（浙江专版）Unit5-SectionⅠWarmingUpReading－PreparingWord版含答案.docVIP

Unit 5　Meeting your ancestors 甲骨文(Oracle bone script)是中国古代的一种文字被认为是现代汉字的早期形式有时候也被认为是汉字的书体之一同时也是现存中国最古老的一种成熟文字。甲骨文引导炎黄子孙走上使图形记号表示意义而不约束其Oracle Bone Script Oracle bone script refers to the ancient Chinese characters found on animal bones or turtle shells used in divination in Bronze Age China.The vast majority record is the divination by fire of the royal house of the late Shang Dynasty at the capital of Yin (modern Anyang, Henan Province)． date to the late Shang Dynasty, oracle bone script essentially refers to Shang script. It is certain that the writing of the Shang Dynasty experienced a period of development before the Anyang oracle bone script; however, no significant quantity of clearly identifiable writing before or during the early to middle Shang cultural period has been discovered. The oracle bone script of the late Shang appears pictographic，as does its contemporary，the Shang writing on bronzes.The earliest oracle bone script appears even more so than examples from late in the period.Comparing oracle bone script to both Shang and early Western Zhou period writing on bronzes, oracle bone script is clearly greatly simplified；this is thought to be due to the difficulty of carving on the hard and bony surfaces.The more detailed and more pictorial style of the bronze graphs is thus thought to be more representative of typical Shang writing (as would have normally occurred on bamboo books) than the oracle bone script forms, and it is this typical style which continued to evolve into the Zhou period writing and then into the seal script of the Qin state in the late Zhou period. 1．divination n．占卜2．pictographic adj. 象形文字的3．pictorial adj. 图片的图画似的4．evolve vt. 使发展使逐渐形成进展发展演 1．The oracle bone script we say today mainly refers to Shang script.(T) 2．Typical Shang writing is more detailed and more pictorial.(T) Section Ⅰ　Warming Up Reading－Preparing 根据提示写出下列单词1． n．可能的选择 供选择的；其他的2． n. 考古学3． n. 挨饿；饿死4． n. 精确；准确5． vt.vi. 打断…