高中英语人教版高三2 09

[00:05.88]Lesson 89            1 Reading comprehension 1

[00:12.54]Read the text fast to find answers to these questions.

[00:18.31]1 What were the thwo people in the story doing?

[00:23.28]2 What happened to them?

[00:27.22]DISCOVERY(1)

[00:31.29]"I think we're lost!What shall we do?"

[00:36.44]"Let's think carefully,"I replied.

[00:41.09]In fact,I was a bit frightened and didn't know what we should do.

[00:47.57]It was a Sunday in May.

[00:51.72]My brother and I had decided 2 to go off for a long walk

[00:57.36]while we were staying with my grandparents in the French countryside.

[01:03.53]My parents were visiting relatives,

[01:08.81]and my grandparents had dexided to spend the day at home.

[01:14.16]The clouds had come down so suddenly we had no warning 3.

[01:20.22]One moment we were walking along the top of a hill

[01:26.18]and now we could see no more than about thirty metres ahead of us.

[01:33.31]We had lost the path and had no hope of finding 4 it again.

[01:39.66]A fine rain began to fall on our heads and the temperature had dropped.

[01:46.92]"I think we should continue walking as long as we can see where we're going."I said.

[01:54.36]"If we go downhill,we might find a stream,

[01:59.93]and if we follow the stream we should reach a farm,or a village or a bridge."

[02:07.29]We set off down the hill.At first it was easy walking over the grass.

[02:14.74]Then the grass turned to bushes 5 and the hillside became steeper 6.

[02:21.58]We climbed over rocks,

[02:25.82]through trees and found it more and more diffcult to get down the hill.

[02:32.95]By now we were beginning to get tired and the rain was falling heavily.

[02:40.42]I parsed 7 on a small piece of grass and turned back to my brother who was following behind me.

[02:48.18]Then I noticed a hole between two rocks.

[02:53.43]"I'm just going to have a look,"I called.

[02:58.18]I climbed up over the rocks and saw that the hole led into the rockface.

[03:05.76]"I've found a cave,"I cried.

[03:10.48]"I'm tired,"said my younger brother as he climeded up to join me.

[03:17.25]"OK.We can stop here for a time.

[03:21.80]"The cave led back into the rockface and the earth by the entrance was dry.

[03:29.06]"We can make a fire and warm ourselves,"I suggested.

[03:35.54]"It's very difficult to see where we're going

[03:40.29]and the shower may pass in an hour or two.

[03:44.55]Let's rest and have some food."

[03:48.39]We spent some time looking around under the trees for some wood.

[03:54.87]Fortunately we found some that was still dry and carried it back to the cave.

[04:02.13]"Light the fire not so near the entrance that the wind will blow the fire our,

[04:09.89]and not so far in that th esmoke will fill the cave,"said my brother.

[04:16.65]"And don't set the hillside no fire either!"

[04:22.11]We succeeded in lighting 8 the fire.

[04:26.66]I always carry matches with me at such times

[04:31.49]and I tore out the pages of the first chapter of the book I was reading

[04:37.42]to get the fire going.

[04:41.18]We ate our sandwiches and a bar of chocolate each and began to feel better.

[04:48.42]"At least we're safe here,"I said.

[04:53.15]The flames threw light onto the ceiling 9 of the cave."Funny,"said my brother.

[05:00.62]"You can see shapes on the rock.Do you see that bit?

[05:06.36]It looks a bit like a deer.There's its head and there are its feet.

[05:13.52]It follows the shape of the rock.It almost looks as if someone has drawn 10 it."

[05:21.78]Lesson 90

[05:30.84]1 Reading comprehension

[05:35.49]Read the text fast to find answers to these questions.

[05:41.66]1 What did they discover?

[05:46.38]2 What was exciting about that evening?

[05:52.03]DISCOVERY(2)

[05:56.18]I was astonished 11.

[06:00.23]I took a burning branch from the fire and went to examine the rock.

[06:07.07]Now I could see a smaller deer next to the one my brother had pointed 12 to.

[06:13.52]The lines of the animal had in fact been cut into the rock

[06:19.77]"How extraordinary!"I said."I think someone has been carving 13 animals."

[06:27.21]I went further back into the cave and stopped still.

[06:32.57]In front of me was a wall of animals.

[06:38.63]It was like stepping into a secret art museum,in which we were the only visitors.

[06:46.57]I went on walking,bending down because the roof of the cave was not very high.

[06:53.83]"This is wonderful,"I said.

[06:58.19]I turned the corner and looked in astonishment 14.

[07:03.52]Here were not carvings 15 in the rock but paintings.

[07:09.69]The sides of the deer were coloured with a reddish-brown paint.

[07:15.62]There were birds too,with the eyes carved out of the rock and painted white.

[07:22.49]I could see a snake,a bear,a wolf,but no people.

[07:29.54]"I don't think anyone knows about this,"I said.

[07:34.40]"I think we are the first people here for hundreds of years.Maybe thousands."

[07:42.58]Outside the rain had turned into a storm and lightning flashed over the hills.

[07:50.44]It was beginning to get dark."I think we'd best stay the night here,"I said.

[07:57.52]"We're warm,we're dry and we're safe.

[08:02.06]We've still got a little food and water

[08:06.22]and maybe by tomorrow morning the weather will have cleared up."

[08:12.17]I shall never forget that extraordinary evening.

[08:17.14]We collected more wood and laid it in a big pile inside the cave.

[08:24.22]The smoke from the fire rose and found its way outside

[08:29.86]and the light danced over the cave.

[08:35.03]On one hand,I was anxious to leave.

[08:39.99]I was so excited that I wanted to tell the whole world what we had found.

[08:46.34]I was proud that we had come across something that was completely 16 unknown and valuable

[08:53.42]and I guessed,extremely old.On the other hand,

[08:59.90]I felt sad that I wasn't able to tell my grandparents that we were safe.

[09:06.35]We were in a better position than they were.

[09:10.92]I realized that they would be very worried,

[09:15.60]but that they would trust our good sense,wherever we were.

[09:20.85]Another part of me wanted this moment to continue for ever.

[09:27.72]This evening the cave was ours.It belonged to no one else.

[09:35.09]I knew that experts from the local museum would soon visit the cave.

[09:41.75]Professors from the university in Paris would be coming down by train.

[09:48.09]There would be pictures in magazines and newspapers,

[09:53.55]showing crowds of people with their cameras and noisy,excited talk.

[09:59.61]We were so excited,,my brother and I,that we did not get to sleep until very late.

[10:07.58]We talked and wondered about the people who had lived here before.

[10:13.64]How many people lived here?When did they leave this area?

[10:19.28]What clothes did they weat? What were their names?What languages did they speak?

[10:26.83]Neither of us realized that night that these carvings and paintings

[10:33.89]dated back 15,000 years,

[10:39.16]nor that the headline in the newspaper would be

[10:43.92]"The find of the century---Children aged 17 13 and 11 discover cave paintings."