LemonIce的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训

L38-2: The first calendar

Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths. The nomads who made these markings lived by hunting and fishing during the last Ice Age which began about 35,000 B.C. and ended about 10,000 B.C. By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code. They have found that it is connected with the passage of days and the phases of the moon. It is, in fact, a primitive type of calendar. It has long been known that the hunting scenes depicted on walls were not simply a form of artistic expression. They had a definite meaning, for they were as near as early man could get to writing. It is possible that there is a definite relation between these paintings and the markings that sometimes accompany them. It seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.

任务配置：L0+L4

词音：ivory,tusks,mammoths,nomads,correlating,phases,primitive,scenes,definite

词义：engrave  雕刻；tusk  长牙；尖型物；mammoth  长毛象；猛犸象；庞然大物；nomad  游牧民；流浪者；correlate  关联；primitive  原始的，远古的；简单的，粗糙的；definite  一定的；确切的

练习感悟：

晚上数了一下，朗读写总结的小伙伴还有一共八位。练好口语，会有很大的优势，小伙伴们共勉。

一句话，就是干。