一.課文內容
Future historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times. They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily accumulates. What is連讀 more， they will not have to rely solely on the written word. Films, videos. CDs and CD-ROMs are just '''some of the bewildering amount of information they will have. They will be '''able, as it were, to see and hear us連讀 in action連讀. But the historian↑ attempting to reconstruct the distant past～ is always faced with a difficult task～. He has to deduce what he can| from the few scanty cluesavailable. Even seemingly insignificant remains can shed 'interesting light on the history of early '''man.
Up to now↑, historians have assumed ↑連讀that /央元音/calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then| man was faced with a real need| to understand something about the seasons. Recent scientific evidence |seems to indicate |that this assumption is incorrect.
Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusk 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.
二. 小詞積累
- a unique
- accumulate 逐漸增加 accumulating score 分數逐漸積累
- 歸納演繹: induce
假說演繹: deduce - shed light on
- you beat me 你問住我了
- come into being 從無到有，正在成型
三. 讀音糾正
- that 弱讀 央元音 無t
