come to...for a visit 来......参观，show...around 带领......参观，a great pleasure to do... 非常乐意做......，be interested in... 对......感兴趣，find evidence of... 找到......的证据，in the caves higher up the hill 在高山上的洞穴里，regardless of the cold 不顾寒冷，keep warm 保暖，in the center of ... 在......的中心，construct fires 生火，cook the food 做饭， scare wild animals away 吓跑野兽，excavate layers of ...挖掘一层层的......，keep the fire burning 让火一直着着，all winter 整个冬季，at the cave mouth 在洞口，to keep out the cold 御寒， tell...about... 告诉......关于......， show pictures of ..., 展示......的照片，make the hole for ... 挖一个......的洞，make one's own clothes 做自己的衣服， wear clothes made entirely of... 穿着完全由......制成的衣服， sew... together 把......缝在一起，use sharpened stone tools 使用尖利的石器，cut up... 切碎， clean...from ...把......从......去掉， rub an ample amount of...inside the skin擦上大量的......在兽皮里， make... soft enough 使......足够柔软，a primitive necklace一条原始的项链，care about... 在意......，from the seaside 从海边， look very like...看起来非常像......， part of a large shallow lake 一个很大的浅水湖的一部分， miles from the sea, 离海几英里远 ，travel to... 去......旅行，on the journeys 在旅途中， move around 四处走动， follow the herds of animals跟着兽群， grow own crops 种植谷物， pick fruit 摘野果 V. Transforming information

Where was the evidence of some of the earliest people who lived in this part of the world found?

How could they live here? It's here that we've found evidence of some of the earliest people who lived in this part of the world.

It is reasonable to assume they lived in these caves, regardless of the cold. How did they keep warm?

Fireplaces in the centre of the caves have kept them warn, cooked the food and scared wild animals away as well. What wild animals were there all that time ago? Tigers and bears were the most dangerous enemies. Do they repair things? Yes, they do. Where did they get the material for making their clothes? They did indeed wear clothes made from animal skins.

Did early people really care about their appearance like we do? Yes they do.

VI. Closing down by reading more about Zhoukoudian

In December 1929, a Chinese paleoanthropologist named Pei Wenzhong discovered a complete skull of "Peking Man" on Dragon Bone Hill northwest of Zhoukoudian, in the southwest suburbs of Beijing. Later, archaeologists unearthed 40-odd individually fossilized skeletons of "Peking Man", male, female, old and young, all at the same site. Zhoukoudian, therefore, became the most common site for human remains with the most abundant fossils in the world from the same period. The discovery pushed the history of Beijing's civilization back to some 600,000 years. These fossilized remains prove that "Peking Man" was primitive man in an evolutionary process from ancient ape to modern man, and is the ancestor of the Chinese nation.

Inside the 140-meter-long Peking Man Cave, stratum accumulation was of a depth of 40 meters. The inhabitants spanning more than 300,000 years left their remains, stone tools and traces of fire here. On Dragon Bone Hill were also found fossilized remains of Upper Cave Man, who lived 18,000 years ago, as well as sites of New Cave Man, who lived between Peking Man and Upper Cave Man.

In 1987, the Zhoukoudian caves were listed as one of the world cultural heritage sites.

Additional Materials Complete the summary of the story with one word in each blank.

A VISIT TO THE ZHOUKOUDIAN CAVES

A group of students from England came to the Zhoukoudian Caves for a visit. An archaeologist showed them __1__.

First the archaeologist described how early people lived in their __2__: They might have kept fire __3__ all winter to keep them warm, cook the food and__4__ wild animals away. They might have __5__ animal skins at the cave __6__ to keep out the cold. When the students saw a needle, she told them that early people might have used __7__ stone tools to cut up the animals and __8__ their skin. Then smaller scrapers might have been used to clean the __9__ and __10__ from them. After that they would have had to rub an__11__ amount of salt inside the skin to make it soft enough. Finally, they would have cut it and sewn the pieces together. At last she showed them a necklace. Some of the __12__ are made of animal bones but some are made of __13__? Perhaps there was trade between early peoples or they traveled to the __14__ on their journeys.

（Key: 1. around 2. caves 3. burning 4. scared 5. hung 6. mouth 7. sharpened 8. remove 9. fat 10. meat 11. ample 12. beads 13. shells 14. seaside）