Section C
Directions: In this section you will hear a recorded short passage. The passage is printed in the test paper, but with some words or phrases missing. The passage will be read three times. During the second reading, you are required to put the missing words or phrases on the answer sheet in order of the numbered blanks according to what you hear. The third reading is for you to check your writing. Now the passage will begin.
We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write the only way that they can (11)__(1)__ their history is to recount it as sagas——legends (12)__(2)____ from one generation of storyteller to another. These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago. But none could write down what they did. So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first 'modern men' came from.(13)__(3)____, however, ancient men made tools of stone especially flint, because this is easier to (14)__(4)___ than other kinds. They may also have used wood and skills, but these have rotted away. Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have (15)__(5)____ without trace. 无解析
Directions: In this section you will hear a recorded short passage. The passage is printed in the test paper, but with some words or phrases missing. The passage will be read three times. During the second reading, you are required to put the missing words or phrases on the answer sheet in order of the numbered blanks according to what you hear. The third reading is for you to check your writing. Now the passage will begin.
We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write the only way that they can (11)__(1)__ their history is to recount it as sagas——legends (12)__(2)____ from one generation of storyteller to another. These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago. But none could write down what they did. So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first 'modern men' came from.(13)__(3)____, however, ancient men made tools of stone especially flint, because this is easier to (14)__(4)___ than other kinds. They may also have used wood and skills, but these have rotted away. Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have (15)__(5)____ without trace. 无解析