Lesson 1 Finding fossil man

Song Lesson 1 Finding fossil man
Artist 英语听力
Album 新概念英语(第四册)

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[00:02.98] Lesson 1
[00:04.66] Finding fossil man
[00:12.18] Why are legends handed down by storytellers useful?
[00:19.47] We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East,
[00:24.91] where people first learned to write.
[00:28.14] But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write.
[00:34.00] The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas
[00:41.10] --legends handed down from one generation of storytellers to another.
[00:47.43] These legends are useful
[00:49.88] because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago,
[00:56.34] but none could write down what they did.
[01:00.77] Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples
[01:06.49] now living in the Pacific Islands
[01:08.67] came from.
[01:10.60] The sagas of these people explain
[01:12.91] that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.
[01:19.46] But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago
[01:24.20] that even their sagas,if they had any,are forgotten.
[01:29.32] So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out
[01:34.86] where the first 'modern men' came from
[01:39.15] Fortunately,however,ancient men made tools of stone,especially flint,
[01:45.69] because this is easier to shape than other kinds.
[01:50.22] They may also have used wood and skins,but these have rotted away.
[01:56.45] Stone does not decay,and so the tools of long ago have remained
[02:03.25] when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace.

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[00:02.98] Lesson 1
[00:04.66] Finding fossil man
[00:12.18] Why are legends handed down by storytellers useful?
[00:19.47] We can read of things that happened 5, 000 years ago in the Near East,
[00:24.91] where people first learned to write.
[00:28.14] But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write.
[00:34.00] The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas
[00:41.10] legends handed down from one generation of storytellers to another.
[00:47.43] These legends are useful
[00:49.88] because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago,
[00:56.34] but none could write down what they did.
[01:00.77] Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples
[01:06.49] now living in the Pacific Islands
[01:08.67] came from.
[01:10.60] The sagas of these people explain
[01:12.91] that some of them came from Indonesia about 2, 000 years ago.
[01:19.46] But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago
[01:24.20] that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten.
[01:29.32] So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out
[01:34.86] where the first ' modern men' came from
[01:39.15] Fortunately, however, ancient men made tools of stone, especially flint,
[01:45.69] because this is easier to shape than other kinds.
[01:50.22] They may also have used wood and skins, but these have rotted away.
[01:56.45] Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago have remained
[02:03.25] when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace.