【测控指导】2018版高中英语人教版选修8课件：5.1 Warming Up Pre-readingReading Comprehending.pptVIP

Unit 5　Meeting your ancestors 单词注释 难句剖析 导读诱思 古文物中蕴含着过去人们丰富的生活,吸引着科学家们对它们进行各种各样的研究和揣摩。那么,一件古老的乐器又能透视给人们什么样的丰富内涵?科学家们又会对它做出怎样的研究呢? The well-preserved,nicely decorated conch1 shells found in Peru offered researchers a rare opportunity to look into primitive instruments.Researchers put their lips to ancient shells to figure out how humans used these trumpets 3,000 years ago. Polished,painted and carved with symbols,the shells had well-formed mouthpieces2 and V-shaped cuts.The cuts may have been used as a rest for the player’s thumb or to allow the player to see over the instrument while playing. 单词注释 难句剖析 导读诱思 To record the sounds and understand the occasion in which the instruments,called pututus,were played,researchers asked a shell musician to blow into the horn.They recorded the sound’s path through four small microphones placed inside the player’s mouth,the shell’s mouthpiece,the shell’s main body and at the shell’s large opening,or the bell.The team used signal-processing software to analyse the acoustic3 features of each trumpet.Following the sound’s path made it possible to reconstruct the ancient shell’s interior4 without damaging it. 单词注释 难句剖析 导读诱思 They also wanted to know how the site’s ceremonial5 stone room changed the trumpet’s sound.So the team arranged six microphones around the musician and reconstructed the sound patterns on a computer.If the trumpets were played inside the stone room in which they were found,the music would have sounded like it was coming from several different directions at once.In the dark religious centre,that could have created a sense of confusion.Were they used to scare people while they were there?There are still a lot of things left open. 单词注释 难句剖析 导读诱思 1.conch /kɒntʃ/ n.海螺壳;海螺 2.mouthpiece /̍maʊ􀱺piːs/ n.(乐器的)吹口 3.acoustic /ə̍kuːstIk/ adj.声音的;音响的 4.interior /In̍tIərIə/ n.内部 5.ceremonial /serI̍məʊnIəl/ adj.礼仪的;礼节的 难句剖析 导读诱思 单词注释 The well-preserved,nicely decorated conch shells found in Peru offered researchers a rare opportunit