新概念第四册笔记（完美版）

新概念第四册笔记（完美版）Lesson 1 Finding fossil man发现化石人We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East,where peoplefirst learned to write.But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write.The onlyway that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas---legends handeddown from one generation of storytellers to another.These legends are useful becausethey can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago,but nonecould write down what they did.Anthropologists wonderedwhere the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the PacificIslands came from.The sagas of these people explain that some of them came fromIndonesia about 2,000 years ago.But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas,ifthey had any,are forgotten.So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to helpthem to find out where the first modern men came from.Fortunately,however,ancient men made tools of stone,especially flint,because this iseasier to shape than other kinds.They may also have used wood and skins,but thesehave rotted away.Stone does not decay,and so the tools of long ago have remainedwhen even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace.ROBIN PLACE Finding fossil manNew words and expressions生词短语recount/ri'kaunt/v.叙述/'re'kaunt/再数-次record/'rek[d//ri'kC:d第一个音节带重音，名前动后叙述：recountemotionless重复describedepicta little emotionalnarratetemporal&spacial根据时间或空间顺序描述。portray:描述