英语人教选修8课件：Unit5晨读晚诵

1、UnitsMeeting your ancestors古文物中蕴含着过去人们丰富的生活，吸引着科学家们对它们进 行各种各样的研究和揣摩。那么，一件古老的乐器又能透视给人们 什么样的丰富内涵?科学家们又会对它做出怎样的研究呢？The well-preserved.nicely decorated conch1 shells found in Peru offered researchers a rare opportunity to look into primitive.s *WV»vA./V zv* ZVZ.<A/AZ»Z/s/V ZWW/WV>ZVW%A/

2、虚 / Jl/V./WV V>v.Zv*/V ZAZ-./V* Z«Z*ww JLs / ZWWWWSZvinstruments.Researchers put their lips to ancient shells to figure out how humans used these trumpets 3,000 years ago.Polished,painted and carved with symbols,the shells had well- formed mouthpieces2 and V-shaped cuts.The cuts may have bee

3、n used as a rest for the player' s thumb or to allow the player to see over the instrument while playingTo record the sounds and understand the occasion in which the instruments,called pututus,were played,researchers asked a shell musician to blow into the horn.They recorded the sound? s path th

4、rough four small microphones placed inside the player，s mouth,the shell，s mouthpiece,the shell，s main body and at the shell? s large opening,or the bell.The team used signal-processing software to analyse the acoustic3 features of each trumpet.Following the sound，s path made it possible to reconstru

5、ct the ancient shell? s interior4 without damaging it.They also wanted to know how the site，s ceremonial5 stone room changed the trumpet' s sound.So the team arranged six microphones around the musician and reconstructed the sound patterns on a computer.If the trumpets were played inside the sto

6、ne room in which they were found9the music would have sounded like it was coming from several different directions at once.In the dark religious centre,that could have created a sense of confusion.Were they used to scare people while they were there?There are still a lot of things left ope n.单词注释1.

7、conch /kontj/ 海螺壳;海螺2. mouthpiece 7mao0pi:s/ （乐器的）吹口3. acoustic /aku:stlk/ Q0声音的;音响的4. interior /Iritlarla/ z 内部5. ceremonial /serlmaonlal/ Q”礼仪的;礼节的难句剖析The well-preserved,nicely decorated conch shells found in Peru offered researchers a rare opportunity to look into primitive instruments 译文这个在秘鲁发现的

8、保存良好、装饰很漂亮的海螺号给研究人 员提供了一次研究古代乐器的稀有机会。剖析此句为复杂的简单句。句子主干是The conch shells offered researchers a rare opportunity,句中过去分词短语found in Peru做后 置定语彳参彳市conch shells;不 定 式to look into primitive instruments 后 置定语修饰a rare opportunity o导读诱思根据文章内容，判断下列句子的正误(T/F)。1. The research on the 3,000-year-old conch shell instruments may help people better understand the ancient civilization. ( T )2. By analysing the acoustic features of the trumpet,the researchers were able to know about its structure( T )3. The r