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Lesson 1 Finding fossil man Vocabulary 1.fossil man title 化石人 2.recount v.叙述 例句：He recounted how he had shot the lion. 他讲述他射死那只狮子的经过. 3.saga n.英雄故事 4.legend n.传说，传奇 5.migration n.迁移，移居 例句：Some people believe human agency is the efficient factor in the migration of some species of wild plants. 一些人认为人作为媒介是一些野生植物物种迁移的直接原因。 Species ,Species [pl.]---- a set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics with each other and can breed with each other e.g.Mountain gorillas are an endangered species. Over a hundred species of insects are found in this area. 6.anthropologist n.人类学家 e.g.An anthropologist wrote a treatise [‘tri:tis] 专题著作, 专题论文, 专著 7.archaeologist n.考古学家 例句：The archaeologist found a jade dress in a Han Dynasty tomb. 考古人员在一座汉墓中发现一件金缕玉衣。 8.ancestor n.祖先 例句：Our ancestors trod this same path. 我们的祖先曾经走过这同一条道路。 Tread vi.vt. trod, trod/trodden vi. 1.踩, 踏 He accidentally trod on her foot.他不小心踩了她的脚。 及物动词vt. 1.踩成, 踏出 Cattle had trod a path to the pond.牛踩出了一条通向池塘的路。2.步行于, 在…上走 Every day he trod the same path through the woods.他每天沿同一条路走过森林。3.踩 烂 , 践踏 He trod the golden beetle underfoot.他把一只金色的甲虫踩在脚下。The people have been trod/trodden down for too long.人民受践踏的时间太久了。 p?l?’ni:??n ]adj.波利尼西亚（中太平洋之一群岛）的 10.Indonesia [,?nd?’ni??] n.印度尼西亚 11.flint [c.u.]n.燧石 12.rot v. rotted,rotted ---- to cause to decay烂掉 例句：The hospital is so rotted that its beyond repair. 这所医院已破败得无法修缮了。 Some of rubbish rot away over a long time. 有些垃圾时间久了就烂掉了。 区别：rotten adj. 1.腐烂的; 腐朽的;腐败的 The smell of the rotten meat was enough!这腐臭的肉闻一下就够人受的了！ 2.道德败坏的 The mans morals are rotten to the core. 那个人道德败坏至极。 3.极坏的; 极讨厌的 Shes a rotten cook. 她做的饭很差劲。 The book was pretty rotten. 这本书糟透了。 1.We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. 参考翻译：我们从书籍中可读到5,000 年前近东发生的事情，那里的人最早学会了写字。 讲解：read of读到,看到,阅悉 where是定语从句，修饰in the Near East. the first to do sth第一个做某事的人。 2.The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as