高中英语 Unit 2 Sailing the oceans Listening exercise课件 新人教版选修9.pptVIP

Listening ;Using Language;Listen again and fill in the blanks.;at the clouds in the daytime and the stars at night. But very soon they began to _______ local maps. About 5,000 years ago sailors from Phoenicia in North Africa used simple maps to _______ their ships around the Mediterranean Sea. They were the ______ traders of their day.;WM: Really? _____ _______! Did everybody use simple maps? DS: No. Im afraid not. It was difficult to have a map for sailing ______ open sea then. We know the Vikings from Norway had no _______ maps when they sailed across the North Sea.;WM: The Vikings? Didnt they sail around and ______ people and towns from their ships? DS: Sometimes. But were not _________ ___ that, only in their superior sailing ability. WM: I see! So what did they do? DS: Well, one of the things they did was ___________ ___ watching;birds. Theres the story of a Viking called Raven-Floki. He used to keep birds on his ships but he didnt ____ them. Then when he thought land was near hed let the birds go and if they flew straight to land, all he had to do was to ______ them!;WM: Did he find any new lands to _____ ___? DS: Well, he did find a good way of sailing from the Faroe Islands to Iceland ______ his ravens. It’s said that he took three birds on his ship with him. When he’d been ______ ____ a day or two towards Iceland he let the first bird go. ;It ____ back to the Faroe Islands. A day after this he let the second bird go. This flew out of sight but _____ ____ to rest on the ship. Sometime after that, he let the third bird go. It _______ straight for Iceland so Raven-Floki followed it and arrived there _____. ;WM: That _______ clever! I’ve heard too about the Polynesians in the Pacific Ocean. They did some ________ _______ without any navigati