The faces are almost the same: all with sword-shaped eyebrows, chestnut eyes, towering noses and open mouths; but the hairstyles are different from each other. Some busts are bald, while others wear a crown; some have hair coiled up and some wear hair clasps; but all are lively. So many bonzes are sure to be a collection of worshiped images, representing people of imperial of leaking groups. They reflect the character of the ancient Shun society in which gods and humans are considered to be connected with each other, and also politics and relation.

The bonze animal sculptures of dragons, snakes, biers, chicks, are vivid. They reflect the ancient Shun people's ideology that all things have spirits and show their sincerity to gods. Among them, the sincerity to birds is the core. Biers, such as Cinching, You, Day, etc, are the names of several ancient Shun dynasties. Biers are regarded as the symbol of the sun.

The last one is a pottery pot, which is 579×924, 170Kb. It is used to contain water or wine.

Step Ⅱ Listening and reading

First ask the students to read the passage and work out the answers to the questions in Part 2 on page 83.

T: Howard Carter was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist. He was most famous as the discoverer of KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun. On November 4, 1922 Carter found Tutankhamen's tomb, by far the best preserved tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings. Now read about it and find out the answers to the questions on page 83.

Sample answers:

1. The room or burial chamber with the king's body contained boxes of all shapes and sizes. One held the king's body and had his name on it, so they knew whose tomb it was.

2. Because they found the marvelous collection of treasures in the tomb, but did not know anything about it.

3. This was very significant as it was clearly a tomb of somebody important, and it had not been robbed.