人教版选修八-Unit-5-Reading

3. What can we learn about the necklace they wore?
Some of the necklace beads were made of animal _b_o_n_e_s_ but some were made of _s_h_e_l_ls_, which tell us that all the fields around here used to be part of a large shallow lake. Perhaps there was _t_ra_d__e between early people or they traveled to the seaside on their journeys.
TV, sport, films, hobbies, education, job, Internet fruit, vegetables, meat and fish, etc
natural and manmade fibres
Peking Man
cave
natural furniture made of stone or wood.
北京人头盖骨化石
北
原 图
京 猿 人
复
Zhoukoudian Caves
骨针
1933年北京市房山县 周口店龙骨山山顶洞出土。 骨针长8.2厘米,孔径 0.31-0.33厘米。这是 中国已发现的时代最早 的骨针之一,其针身保存完好,针孔处破 裂,针尖锐利,表面有刮磨痕迹。针孔是用 尖状器刮挖而成。
不管；不顾 至多；最多 切碎
What are they?
Terra cotta warriors and horses (兵马俑)
Inscriptions on
bones or tortoise shells (甲骨文)
These objects above are finds of _a_r_c_h_a_e_o_lo_g_y___.
including architecture, features,
landscapes anSdosounond.s
Atoroclhs aaenodlooRgtyheesartusodboijenescabtbsulrieledl?aintegds,
graves, to
people in the past, in order to learn
Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors
Warming Up and Reading 选修八
Words preview
accuracy interrupt
acute
assume regardless
mat quilt
n. 精确；准确 vt. & vi. 中断……讲话； 打岔; 暂时中断或中止 adj. 有观察力的；敏锐的 严重的；深刻的
Caves kept themselves warm by _C___.
A. working
B. fighting
C. making fires D. hunting
4. Evidence has showed that the earliest
people in the Caves used __C___ to make
none
pharaoh(法老
王) after his
death
Pre-reading
Do you know about Zhoukou Dian? Where is it? What is famous for?
It is on the Longgu Mountain, Fangshan District, Beijing. It is famous for Peking Man, a complete skull (头盖骨) of an ape-man (猿人) dating back 600,000 years.
Archaeologists study early people by examining the objects they used. Look at the pictures in the reading passage and think about what kind of life Peking Man lived? Did they suffer from cold, starvation or disease? Make a tentative guess about what Peking Man may have done and used thousands of years ago. Compare their life with ours today. Then read the passage to see how accurate you were.
What objects are used by the primitive people?
Place for living
Furniture
Entertainment
Food
Clothing
Modern people stone, wooden or brick house wooden, special for each room
2. Through the conversation, everything
about our earliest people is mentioned
EXCEPT __D___ .
A. homes
B. tools
C. dress
D. entertainment
3. Our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian
Hale Waihona Puke A stone toolA face of an Egyptian Pharaoh
When you have come to a conclusion,fill in the chart below.
Its name What it was Its made of use
1 2 3 4
Today's alternative
clothes according to the conversation.
A. leaves
B. tree skins
C. animal skins D. cotton
5. From the conversation we can infer that
the earliest people in the Caves were
What is archaeology?
Archaeology is the science that studies
human cultures through the recovery,
analysis, and interpretation of material
remains and environmental data,
What is the object?
What is it made of?
What was it used for?
What are the modern alternatives?
A household object from Greece
A musical instrument
2. How did they make clothes?
Their clothes were made from animal _s_k_i_n_s. They used _s_h_a_r_p_e_n_e_d_stone tools to_c_u_t_u_p_ the animals and _r_e_m_o_v_e_ their skin. Then smaller _s_c_ra_p__er_s_ were used to clean the fat and meat from them. They had to _r_u_b_ an ample amount of salt inside the skin to make it _s_o_f_t enough. finally, they would have cut it and __se_w__n_the pieces together with _n_e_e_d_l_es_ made of animal bones.
very __C___.
A. busy and rich
B. idle and lazy
C. clever and hard working
D. stupid and cruel
Answer the questions.
1. What animals were their most dangerous enemies? Tigers and bears were their most dangerous enemies.
about their culture and society.
Some famous cultural sites/relics in China
Xi’an Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses
Sichuan
金面铜 人头像
铜兽面
Sanxingdui Museum
青铜纵
Its name
1 clay lamp
What it was Its use Today's
made of
alternative
clay/ to light electric pottery the house light
2
metal,
Chinese possibly
chimes bronze or
vt. 假定；假设 adv. 不管；不顾 n. 席子；垫子 n. 被子；棉被
Words preview
beast n. 野兽 centimetre n. 厘米 （美）centimeter
sharpen vi. & vt. （使）锋利；清晰 sharpener n. 磨具；削具
ample adj. 足够的；充足的；富裕的 messy adj. 凌乱的；脏的 primitive adj. 原始的；远古的；简陋的 botany n. 植物学
family get together
natural food, such as nuts and fruits. skins, leaves
Fast reading Reading
Choose the best answer.
1. The main idea of the text is about the __A___ of our earliest people in the Zhoukoudian Caves. A. life and habits B. food and clothing C. homes and fishing D. farming and hunting
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目面具
璋
云纹漆钟
金缕玉衣
Hunan Mawangdui Han Dynasty Tomb
Bronze Bell Chime(编钟)
Hubei
Henan Simuwu Ding
1 In pairs, try to identify these objects. Discuss what they were made of and explain their use. Who do you think used them? Can you think of the alternatives we would use today?
brass
to
xylophone
provide
music
Its name
What Its use it was made of
3 stone/ stone/ jade axe jade
to chop wood
Today's alternative
chain saw
4 death mask
gold
to cover the face of the
Words preview
botanical adj. 植物学的； 植物学有关的
analysis n. （pl analyses）分析 seashell n. 海贝壳
ripen vt. & vi. 使……成熟；成熟
Expressions preview
regardless of at most cut up