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Lesson1Findingfossilman

发现化石人

Wecanreadofthingsthathappened5,000yearsagointheNearEast,wherepeoplefirstlearnedtowrite.

Buttherearesomepartsoftheworldwhereevennowpeoplecannotwrite.heonlywaythattheycan

preservetheirhistoryistorecountitassagas--legendshandeddownfromonegenerationofstorytellersto

another.heselegendsareusefulbecausetheycantellussomethingaboutmigrationsofpeoplewholived

longago,butnonecouldwritedownwhattheydid.Anthropologistswonderedwheretheremoteancestorsof

thePolynesianpeoplesnowlivinginthePacificIslandscamefrom.hesagasofthesepeopleexplainthat

soneofthemcamefromIndonesiaabout2,000yearsago.

Butthefirstpeoplewhowerelikeourselveslivedsolongagothateventheirsagas,iftheyhadany,are

forgotten.Soarchaeologistshaveneitherhistorynorlegendstohelpthemtofindoutwherethefirstmodem

mencamefrom.

Fortunately,however,ancientmenmadetoolsofstone,especiallyflint,becausethisiseasiertoshapethan

otherkinds.heymayalsohaveusedwoodandskins,butthesehaverottedaway.Stonedoesnotdecay,and

sothetoolsoflongagohaveremainedwheneventhebonesofthemenwhomadethemhavedisappeared

withouttrace.

RO3INPLACEFindingfossilman

Newwordsandexpressions

生词短语

recount/rikaunt/v.表达/reikaunt/再数一次record/rek(d//rikC:d/第一个音节重音,名前动后

表达：recount:emotionless

重复

describe

depict：alittleemotional

narrate：temporalspacial根据时间或空间顺序描述。

portray：描述

saga/sa:g[/n.英雄故事

描述的内容mostlyreal北欧海盗活动的故事

legend/呢dV[nd/n.传说,传奇

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