L38-1: The first calendar

Future historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times. They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily accumulates. What is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written word. Films, videos, CDs and CD-ROMS are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will have. They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action. But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task. He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available. Even seemingly insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man.

Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons. Recent scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.

任務配置：L0+L4

詞音：historian,bewildering,scanty,advent

詞義：bewilder? 使迷惑；使不知所措；scanty? 缺乏的；僅有的；稀疏的；advent? 到來；出現(xiàn)

練習感悟：

有些句子在讀的時候，原文里并不會連讀，這樣聽起來還是更能聽明白，但是連著就會難以聽得出來，讀英語應該以能讓人聽明白為主。

一句話，就是干。