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Fill in the blanks according to the first letter given.

According to all the things found in and ne

ar the Zhoukoudian Cave, scientists have c

____ t_ c________ that there used to be e

arly people living in it. If you are still thinking

about the a_______ places to spend your h

oliday, I suggest you go there. Every visitor

must be a____ how surprising it is but it is r

easonable to a_____ they lived in those cav

es, r________ of the cold .

ome o onclusion

lternative

ware

ssume

egardless

They lit f___ to keep themselves warm,

cook the food and scare wild animals away.

They made the bones of animals into

n______ and wore c_____ made of animal

skin. They really cared about their

a_________, they wore beads made of

animal bones and s_______. They didn’t

grow their own c____ but they picked fruit

and killed animals.

ires

eedles lothes

ppearance

eashells

rops

1.identify

vt. 确认，识别，鉴别 e.g The scientist identified

the vase at once; it dated f

rom Ming Dynasty .

这位科学家很快就鉴别出这个花瓶是明朝的。

2. come to a conclusion 得出结论Match the two columns 1)It has come to my notice

that some valuable vases

are missing.

2) When it comes to history,

I know nothing.

3 ） Suddenly the name of the

ancient painting came to me.

注意到

涉及到

想到

3. alternative n ．替换物 There are some alternatives to our plan.

有几种方案可以代替我们的计划。 He had no alternative but to stay home. 他别无选择 , 只好一个人去那儿。

4. You must be aware that it's here that we've found evidence of some of the earliest people who lived in this part of the world. 想必你们知道 , 正是在这儿我们找到 了居住在世界这个部分最早人类的证据。

a. You must be aware that… 主句后接由强调句和定语从句组成的宾语从句。

must 是作为情态动词表示肯定推测 , 译作“一 定 , 肯定”。只用于肯定推测。 对现在或将来事实推测，用 “ must do” 。

翻译：当你参观周口店的山洞时肯定会觉得兴奋。 ———————————————————

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You must be excited when visiting Zhoukoudian Cave 。

b. aware adj ．意识到的 , 知道的。通常用作表语。

We should be aware that a lot of animals

are becoming endangered ． 我们必须清楚地认识到许多动物正濒临灭绝

的危险。 be aware of sth. 知道；意识到 Though most smokers are aware of the da

ngers of smoking, they won't given up.

5. I’m sorry to interrupt you but how co

uld they live here?很抱歉打扰你 , 我想问问他们是怎么在．

翻译：别打断他，他正在作关于早期人类的讲座。

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Don’t interrupt him, for he is giving a talk on early people.

6. So we think it is reasonable to assume they live

d 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。 assume vt. 假定：设想 Some people assume that there might be life on t

he Mars ． 有些人设想火星上有生命。

regardless of prep.

1) without being affected by different

situations, problems, etc. 不管 ; 不顾 He went on with his research on Peking man, r

egardless of the difficulty ． 不管困难有多大 , 他还是继续对北京人的研究工作。2) in spite of

We will not give up regardless of past failures.

尽管以前我们失败过 , 但仍要坚持下去。

7. cut up 切碎 cut down 砍倒 cut in 插话 The farmer ________ the tall tree and then

____it____ into pieces.

It’s not polite to _______ when we are talking.

cut down

cut up

cut in

8. We have been excavating layers of as

h almost six metres thick, which suggest

s that they might have kept the fire bur

ning all winter.

我们一直在挖掘一层层的积灰 , 几乎有六米厚 , 这说明他们可能整个冬季都在烧火。

“have been excavating” 是现在完成进行时 , 表示从过去开始一直延续到现在 , 强调动作的继续。

翻译： 我已经准备我的埃及之旅两星期了。但我还有很多东西要

买。 eg They have been preparing my trip to Egypt for

two weeks. But I still get lots of things to buy.

way of doing some specialist work

enough

belonging to the earliest stage of development

suppose

a measure of length equal to 1609 metres

technique

ample

primitive

assume

mile

Words revision

to tell who or what a particular person or thing is

having excuse or reason

complete

having knowledge or understanding

make or become sharp

identify

reasonable entire

aware

sharpen

Who made great

contributions to

the discovery of

the Zhoukoudian

Caves?

Consolidation

Davidson Black was a Canadian doctor who

helped develop the _________ that led to the

discovery of the bones in the Zhoukoudian C

aves, near Beijing. He was a specialist in the

study of bones and found it challenging to se

arch for and________ bones of early peoples.

As his university was

_______ of the significance of his work, they

techniques

identify

aware

gave him ______ free time to do this research. But

later they felt his behaviour was not _________.

When he should have been teaching, he was often

away. As a result , they forbade him to travel the

re any more. So it was his assistant, Pei Wenzhon

g, who made the discovery of these ________bone

s and _________ stone tools. Somehow he cycled t

hirty ______ from the site

to show them to Dr Black.

ample

reasonable

primitive sharpened

miles

The scientist _______ that this discovery

would change the way people thought about

early people in China. He knew that his

success was almost ______due to his

assistant’s systematic hard work.

assumed

entirely

2. Fill in the blanks, using the phrases conta

ining of.

1) Dr Davidson _________ Mr Pei because

of his talent and hard work.

2) Every mother has the right to live with h

er child, ___________ her social position.

3) _________ the strong wind, the mother bi

rd flew off to find food.

thought of

regardless of

In spite of

4) She frequently _________Sophie, the chil

d she lost during the war.

5) The boss _____________ Sally’s suggestio

n. As a result, his company lost

£ 3,000,000 that year.

thought of

thought little of

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