河北省邢台市育才中学人教版高中英语选修八：unit5listening课件.pptVIP

Listening Look at this archaeological drawing of a section showing buildings at different times and work out the order in which they were built. Part 1 ZH: How can you tell how old the bones are when you find them? layers are there in this wastepaper basket? ZH: There are four layers. RL: Which layer is the first and therefore the oldest? ZH: The orange skin. RL: And which is the last and therefore the most recent? ZH: Of course—the used envelopes. I see how it works now. But how does it help? RL: Well, layers of soil are produced at different times like the layers in your wastepaper basket. Each time people live somewhere, they make a layer in the soil. If they live there for a long time, they make a lot of layers. Each layer has a different colour and texture which we use to find out how old it is. ZH: How splendid! RL: Well, the date for a bone may be between 9,900 years and 10,100 years old. ZH: Perhaps we could visit the site together sometime? RL: Of course. Whenever you like! * 1. Listen to Part 1 of the tape and fill the layers in the “wastepaper basket” diagram below. yogurt pots orange skin wastepaper used envelopes The waste paper basket Listen to Part 2 and complete the passage. It uses radioactivity to measure the amount of _______ in the living things. The ________ in a dead body _________ at a ____ rate. We know how long that takes, so we can measure the amount of ______ and ________ how old a bone is. carbon carbon disappears fixed carbon work out Answer key for Exercise 3: The oldest building is B because it has no layers underneath it. The second oldest building is C because it has one layer underneath it. That layer is the remains of the building in B. The most recent building is building A. It has two layers underneath. They are the remains of buildings B and C. LISTENING TEXT(P42) DATING METHODS Zhou Heping has come to ask the archaeologist, Richard Leakey, ho