英语：Unit5《Meeting your ancestors》Reading 课件（新人教版选修8）
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Unit 5 Reading
A VISIT TO THE
ZHOUKOUDIAN CAVES
Read the
explanation and speak out the word
it explains.
acute
adj. 有观察力的；严重的；深刻的
primitive
adj. 原始的；远古的；简陋的
analysis
n. （pl analyses）分析
very good, accurate and able to notice
very small differences
relating to human society at a very early
stage of development, with people living in
a simple way without machines or a writing
system
when you analyse something
sharpen
vi. & vt. （使）锋利；清晰
to make something sharp or sharper
the empty shell of a small sea creature, often
one found lying on the beach
n. 磨具；削具
sharpener
regardless
adv. 不管；不顾
messy
adj. 凌乱的；脏的
despite; not being affected by something
a machine or tool for making things such
as pencils or knives sharper
untidy
ripen
vt. & vi. 使……成熟；成熟
to (cause to) become ripe
beast
n. 野兽
an animal, especially a large or wild one
n. 海贝壳
seashell
to accept something to be true without
question or proof
to stop a person from speaking for a short
period by something you say or do, or to
stop something from happening for a short
period
vt. & vi. 中断……讲话；打岔;
暂时中断或中止
interrupt
botanical
adj. 植物学的；植物学有关的
assume
vt. 假定；假设
botany
n. 植物学
the scientific study of plants
ample
adj. 足够的；充足的；富裕的
more than enough
regardless of
at most
cut up
至多；最多
切碎
不管；不顾
Match
Skimming
to get
general ideas
skimming
Reading Comprehension I
The text is about the visit to the _____.
A. Shanding Caves
B. Sanxingdui Tombs
C. Zhoukoudian Caves
D. Mawangdui Tombs
2. The group of students come from _____.
A. Germany B. the USA
C. France D. England
Scanning
to get
detail information
1. Early people used blankets to keep
them warm.
2. The archaeologists have found the
bones of tigers and bears in the caves.
3. Early people used animal skins and
fiber to make their clothes.
4. The early people didn’t grow their own
crops.
T or F
scanning
Reading Comprehension II
scanning
Reading Comprehension III
Early people lived _____.
A. near lakes B. in trees
C. in caves D. in the open air
2. Early people didn’t use fire to ____.
A. keep warm
B. scare wild beasts
C. show magic
D. cook the food
scanning
3. Which procedure below is not the process
of making clothes for early people
A. They cut the animal skins and sew the
pieces together.
B. They used the sharpened stone tools to
cut up animals and remove their skins.
C. They rubbed enough salt to make the
skin soft.
D. They sew a pocket on their clothes.
Fill in the chart on the life and habit of Peking Man. Compare it with the list you made for the Pre-reading. What differences are there
Scanning
Reading Comprehension IV
Modern people Peking Man
Place for living
Furni-ture
Entertain-ment
stone, wooden or brick house
cave
wooden, special for each room
a fireplace
TV, sport, films,
hobbies, education,
job
meals
together
Modern people Peking Man
Food
Clothing
fruit, vegetables, meat and fish, etc
meat, fish
berries and fruit in season
natural and man-made fibres
skins, leaves
Write down three ways in which the life
of early people differs from your own.
Use the information from the reading passage to help you with each category.
Home:________________________
Tools:_________________________
Clothes:_________________________
scanning
Reading Comprehension V
Homes
Tools
Dress
caves, perhaps with skins to keep out the cold
scrapers, axe-heads, bone
needles
animal skins sewn together with needles and thread, necklaces
scanning
Find out the three topics that the archaeologist talked about.
Topic 1:_______________________
Topic 3:______________________________
Topic 2:_____________________________
scanning
Life in the cave
What we can learn from a needle
What we can learn from a necklace
Now use this information to write a brief introduction to the Zhoukoudian Caves.
Do you think it is important for us to know about Zhoukoudian Caves Why
Zhoukoudian Caves were formally
inscribed (记入) on the “World Heritage
List” in December 1987 at the eleventh
session of UNESCO World Heritage
Committee. The site is therefore not only
of China, but also of the world as a whole.
Discussion
Careful reading
to solve
difficult points
1. I’m sorry to interrupt you but how could they live here
很抱歉打扰你, 我想问问他们是怎么在这里生活的？
句型“I’m sorry...but...”是口语中委婉的表达, “but”表示语义上的转折。
2) 打岔; 插嘴
It is rude to interrupt.
“Don’t interrupt,” he said.
interrupt
1)阻断, 中断
His studies were interrupted by the war．
Don’t interrupt him, for he hasn’t finished yet.
2. So we think it is reasonable to assume they lived in these caves, regardless of the cold．因此我们有理由认为他们不顾寒冷住在这些洞穴里。
regardless of prep.
without being affected by different
situations, problems, etc. 不管; 不顾
assume vt.
1) to think that something is true
although you have no proof of it
假定,设想
He climbed the building, regardless of the danger．
不管有多危险, 他还是爬上了大厦。
2) to pretend 装作
She assumed a look of surprise．
她装出一副吃惊的样子。
The scientists assume that there are
no animals on the moon．
科学家设想月球上没有动物。
3. It seems that they might have used sharpened stone tools to cut up the animals and remove their skin.
sharpened:使锋利;尖锐;清晰
cut up: cut something into small pieces
切碎
The worker cut up the wood.
工人将木头劈碎。
4. Why, it’s primitive necklace.
primitive: 原始的;远古的;简陋的
The book is about the mythologies of
primitive races.
这本书是原始民族神话集。
Primitive peoples deified the sun.
原始部落将太阳奉为神。
将...奉若神明
5. Yes and so well preserved．
“…还保存得如此完好”这是省略的句子, 完整句应是: and it is so well preserved (it指necklace)
preserve: vt.(1) 保存；保护；收藏
e.g. You can ~ meat or fish in salt.
你可以用盐来保存肉或鱼。
(2) 保持；维持
e.g. It is one of the duties of the police to ~ public order. 警察的职责之一是维持公共秩序。
preserve: n 禁猎地
preservation n.
6. Yes, indeed, as the botanical analyses have been specifically showing us, all the fields around here used to be part of a large shallow lake．
确实, 正如植物学分析具体显示给我们的那样, 附近所有的土地都曾是大型浅湖的一部分。
botany: n. 植物学
botanical: adj. 植物学的；与植物学有关的
analysis: n. 分析
We agreed with his acute analysis of the
political situation.
我们都同意他对政治形势的深刻分析。
analyze: v. 分析,分解
Let's analyze the problem and see what
went wrong.
让我们分析下这道题，看什么地方出错了。
Quiz
Zhoukoudian is a relic of _________ culture. Several decades ago, local farmers came upon some _____ fossils and called them “the Dragon Bones”. Zhoukoudian became
_______ as “Dragon Bone Mountain”. In 1929 these caves became world famous with the discovery of a skull and two teeth _____ back 200,000 to 500,000 years.
primitive
bone
known
dating
I. Retell the text by filling the following
blanks.
They were named _______ Man. Many of
the tools used by those early people, and
bones of ________ they hunted are on
display at a museum near the site of the
discovery.
With the increased ________ of
visitors from all over the world,
Zhoukoudian has become a _______ spot
of Beijing.
Peking
animals
number
scenic
plete the following sentences with
proper words.
1. Trade between the two countries was
i___________ by the war.
2. My mother bought me a heavy _______
(被子) for the winter yesterday.
3. The president was very much pleased
by your _________ (分析) of the situation.
4. You’ll have a_____ time for questions
later.
nterrupted
quilt
analysis
mple
5. Sorry the room is so m_____ — I
haven’t had time to clear up.
6. This area has a(n) ______ (严重的)
shortage of water.
7. I didn’t see your car, so I a________
you’d gone out.
8. My pencil doesn’t write well. Will you
please help me s________ it
9. Small _________ (贝壳) were often used
as a p________ kind of money.
10. We are waiting for the first crops to
r______.
essy
acute
ssumed
harpen
ipen
seashells
rimitive
________________________ (我们在这
里进行挖掘工作已经) for many years.
2. Our evidence suggests that they _______
____________________________ (确实穿着兽皮做的衣服).
3. You must be aware that ______________
(正是在这里) we found evidence of some
of the earliest people.
We’ve been excavating here
clothes made from animal skins
did wear
it’s here that
III. Translation.
4. _____________________ (交通因……
受阻) by a dense fog (浓雾).
5. He continue speaking, ______________
____________________ (不顾及我在此
事上的感情).
6. It will take ________________ (最多两
小时) to get there. 7. ________________ (把胡萝卜切碎)
before you put them into the pot.
Traffic was interrupted
regardless of my
feelings on the matter
two hours at most
Cut up the carrot
Homework
Read the passage again and review
the new words and expressions.
2. 发挥想象，连词成文(50-100字).
interrupt, acute, regardless of,
analysis, cut up, ample, messy,
sharpen assume, at most.
Unit 5 Reading
A VISIT TO THE
ZHOUKOUDIAN CAVES
Read the
explanation and speak out the word
it explains.
acute
adj. 有观察力的；严重的；深刻的
primitive
adj. 原始的；远古的；简陋的
analysis
n. （pl analyses）分析
very good, accurate and able to notice
very small differences
relating to human society at a very early
stage of development, with people living in
a simple way without machines or a writing
system
when you analyse something
sharpen
vi. & vt. （使）锋利；清晰
to make something sharp or sharper
the empty shell of a small sea creature, often
one found lying on the beach
n. 磨具；削具
sharpener
regardless
adv. 不管；不顾
messy
adj. 凌乱的；脏的
despite; not being affected by something
a machine or tool for making things such
as pencils or knives sharper
untidy
ripen
vt. & vi. 使……成熟；成熟
to (cause to) become ripe
beast
n. 野兽
an animal, especially a large or wild one
n. 海贝壳
seashell
to accept something to be true without
question or proof
to stop a person from speaking for a short
period by something you say or do, or to
stop something from happening for a short
period
vt. & vi. 中断……讲话；打岔;
暂时中断或中止
interrupt
botanical
adj. 植物学的；植物学有关的
assume
vt. 假定；假设
botany
n. 植物学
the scientific study of plants
ample
adj. 足够的；充足的；富裕的
more than enough
regardless of
at most
cut up
至多；最多
切碎
不管；不顾
Match
Skimming
to get
general ideas
skimming
Reading Comprehension I
The text is about the visit to the _____.
A. Shanding Caves
B. Sanxingdui Tombs
C. Zhoukoudian Caves
D. Mawangdui Tombs
2. The group of students come from _____.
A. Germany B. the USA
C. France D. England
Scanning
to get
detail information
1. Early people used blankets to keep
them warm.
2. The archaeologists have found the
bones of tigers and bears in the caves.
3. Early people used animal skins and
fiber to make their clothes.
4. The early people didn’t grow their own
crops.
T or F
scanning
Reading Comprehension II
scanning
Reading Comprehension III
Early people lived _____.
A. near lakes B. in trees
C. in caves D. in the open air
2. Early people didn’t use fire to ____.
A. keep warm
B. scare wild beasts
C. show magic
D. cook the food
scanning
3. Which procedure below is not the process
of making clothes for early people
A. They cut the animal skins and sew the
pieces together.
B. They used the sharpened stone tools to
cut up animals and remove their skins.
C. They rubbed enough salt to make the
skin soft.
D. They sew a pocket on their clothes.
Fill in the chart on the life and habit of Peking Man. Compare it with the list you made for the Pre-reading. What differences are there
Scanning
Reading Comprehension IV
Modern people Peking Man
Place for living
Furni-ture
Entertain-ment
stone, wooden or brick house
cave
wooden, special for each room
a fireplace
TV, sport, films,
hobbies, education,
job
meals
together
Modern people Peking Man
Food
Clothing
fruit, vegetables, meat and fish, etc
meat, fish
berries and fruit in season
natural and man-made fibres
skins, leaves
Write down three ways in which the life
of early people differs from your own.
Use the information from the reading passage to help you with each category.
Home:________________________
Tools:_________________________
Clothes:_________________________
scanning
Reading Comprehension V
Homes
Tools
Dress
caves, perhaps with skins to keep out the cold
scrapers, axe-heads, bone
needles
animal skins sewn together with needles and thread, necklaces
scanning
Find out the three topics that the archaeologist talked about.
Topic 1:_______________________
Topic 3:______________________________
Topic 2:_____________________________
scanning
Life in the cave
What we can learn from a needle
What we can learn from a necklace
Now use this information to write a brief introduction to the Zhoukoudian Caves.
Do you think it is important for us to know about Zhoukoudian Caves Why
Zhoukoudian Caves were formally
inscribed (记入) on the “World Heritage
List” in December 1987 at the eleventh
session of UNESCO World Heritage
Committee. The site is therefore not only
of China, but also of the world as a whole.
Discussion
Careful reading
to solve
difficult points
1. I’m sorry to interrupt you but how could they live here
很抱歉打扰你, 我想问问他们是怎么在这里生活的？
句型“I’m sorry...but...”是口语中委婉的表达, “but”表示语义上的转折。
2) 打岔; 插嘴
It is rude to interrupt.
“Don’t interrupt,” he said.
interrupt
1)阻断, 中断
His studies were interrupted by the war．
Don’t interrupt him, for he hasn’t finished yet.
2. So we think it is reasonable to assume they lived in these caves, regardless of the cold．因此我们有理由认为他们不顾寒冷住在这些洞穴里。
regardless of prep.
without being affected by different
situations, problems, etc. 不管; 不顾
assume vt.
1) to think that something is true
although you have no proof of it
假定,设想
He climbed the building, regardless of the danger．
不管有多危险, 他还是爬上了大厦。
2) to pretend 装作
She assumed a look of surprise．
她装出一副吃惊的样子。
The scientists assume that there are
no animals on the moon．
科学家设想月球上没有动物。
3. It seems that they might have used sharpened stone tools to cut up the animals and remove their skin.
sharpened:使锋利;尖锐;清晰
cut up: cut something into small pieces
切碎
The worker cut up the wood.
工人将木头劈碎。
4. Why, it’s primitive necklace.
primitive: 原始的;远古的;简陋的
The book is about the mythologies of
primitive races.
这本书是原始民族神话集。
Primitive peoples deified the sun.
原始部落将太阳奉为神。
将...奉若神明
5. Yes and so well preserved．
“…还保存得如此完好”这是省略的句子, 完整句应是: and it is so well preserved (it指necklace)
preserve: vt.(1) 保存；保护；收藏
e.g. You can ~ meat or fish in salt.
你可以用盐来保存肉或鱼。
(2) 保持；维持
e.g. It is one of the duties of the police to ~ public order. 警察的职责之一是维持公共秩序。
preserve: n 禁猎地
preservation n.
6. Yes, indeed, as the botanical analyses have been specifically showing us, all the fields around here used to be part of a large shallow lake．
确实, 正如植物学分析具体显示给我们的那样, 附近所有的土地都曾是大型浅湖的一部分。
botany: n. 植物学
botanical: adj. 植物学的；与植物学有关的
analysis: n. 分析
We agreed with his acute analysis of the
political situation.
我们都同意他对政治形势的深刻分析。
analyze: v. 分析,分解
Let's analyze the problem and see what
went wrong.
让我们分析下这道题，看什么地方出错了。
Quiz
Zhoukoudian is a relic of _________ culture. Several decades ago, local farmers came upon some _____ fossils and called them “the Dragon Bones”. Zhoukoudian became
_______ as “Dragon Bone Mountain”. In 1929 these caves became world famous with the discovery of a skull and two teeth _____ back 200,000 to 500,000 years.
primitive
bone
known
dating
I. Retell the text by filling the following
blanks.
They were named _______ Man. Many of
the tools used by those early people, and
bones of ________ they hunted are on
display at a museum near the site of the
discovery.
With the increased ________ of
visitors from all over the world,
Zhoukoudian has become a _______ spot
of Beijing.
Peking
animals
number
scenic
plete the following sentences with
proper words.
1. Trade between the two countries was
i___________ by the war.
2. My mother bought me a heavy _______
(被子) for the winter yesterday.
3. The president was very much pleased
by your _________ (分析) of the situation.
4. You’ll have a_____ time for questions
later.
nterrupted
quilt
analysis
mple
5. Sorry the room is so m_____ — I
haven’t had time to clear up.
6. This area has a(n) ______ (严重的)
shortage of water.
7. I didn’t see your car, so I a________
you’d gone out.
8. My pencil doesn’t write well. Will you
please help me s________ it
9. Small _________ (贝壳) were often used
as a p________ kind of money.
10. We are waiting for the first crops to
r______.
essy
acute
ssumed
harpen
ipen
seashells
rimitive
________________________ (我们在这
里进行挖掘工作已经) for many years.
2. Our evidence suggests that they _______
____________________________ (确实穿着兽皮做的衣服).
3. You must be aware that ______________
(正是在这里) we found evidence of some
of the earliest people.
We’ve been excavating here
clothes made from animal skins
did wear
it’s here that
III. Translation.
4. _____________________ (交通因……
受阻) by a dense fog (浓雾).
5. He continue speaking, ______________
____________________ (不顾及我在此
事上的感情).
6. It will take ________________ (最多两
小时) to get there. 7. ________________ (把胡萝卜切碎)
before you put them into the pot.
Traffic was interrupted
regardless of my
feelings on the matter
two hours at most
Cut up the carrot
Homework
Read the passage again and review
the new words and expressions.
2. 发挥想象，连词成文(50-100字).
interrupt, acute, regardless of,
analysis, cut up, ample, messy,
sharpen assume, at most.