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老师说:This is the class that I do most of my effort. 
   
老师今天给出的讨论话题: 
1、What is archaeology? 
 Stories about what happened long ago, learned from writings. 
 People who dig things up. 
 People who study old stories. 
 Stories from long ago, learned from things that are dug up. 
2、Where is the Fertile Crescent? 
Africa 
 Canaan, Egypt, and Mesopotamia 
 along the Nile 
 Asia 
3、What is history? 
Digging up old things. 
  A class you take. 
  Stories about what happened long ago, learned from writings. 
4、 What is a "nomad"? 
Someone who does not get angry. 
  Someone who digs up old things. 
  Someone who wanders. 
  Someone who studies old stories. 
5、Were the first people city-dwellers? 
  
  Yes 
  No 
 6 Which of the following is one of the most ancient cities we know about? 
  Canaan 
  Jericho 
  Athens 
  Jerusalem 
7 Where did farming start? 
  In the Fertile Crescent 
  In Europe 
  In the south of Africa 
  In China 
  In America 
 8 What are archaeologists? 
 People who dig up old things and try to learn about the people who made them. 
  Digging up things from long ago. 
  Studying people from before they could write. 
  People who study stories from long ago. 
9、How did early farmers get water from the river to their fields? 
  canals 
  pipes 
  shovel 
  shaduf 
10 Why did people start gathering together into villages and cities? 
  To work together. 
  For farming. 
  The king made them. 
  To build big buildings. 
 11 What is the difference between "history" and "pre-history"? 
  
  Pre-history is a history class for pre-school. 
 Pre-history is what you study before history. 
 You study history in high school, and you study pre-history in pre-high school. 
 History refers to the period when a people (like a tribe or a city) wrote about themselves; pre-history refers to times before they could write. 
12 What are historians? 
  
  People who dig up old things. 
  People taking a history class. 
  People who study the written records from long ago. 
13 What were the major rivers in the Fertile Crescent? 
  
  Nile, Tigris, and Jericho 
  Mediterranean, Tigris, and Euphrates 
  Mediterranean, Euphrates, and Nile 
  Nails, Tigers, and Elephants 
  Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates 
 14 Were the first people farmers or gatherers? 
  
  Gatherers 
  Farmers 
15 Did early prehistoric people ride horses? 
  
  Yes 
  No 
 1 Who was Isis? 
  
  the brother of Osiris 
  the god of the dead 
  the god of the sky 
  the wife of Osiris 
  the chief god 
 2 What was the title for the king of all Egypt? 
  
  Pharaoh 
  Narmer 
  Osiris 
  King 
3 How did Egyptians store water from the flood? 
  
  in cisterns 
  in water towers 
  in wells 
  in clay jars 
  in canals 
4 What was special about the yearly cycle of the Nile River? 
  
  The Nile flooded, but the Egyptians never knew when. 
  The Nile flooded once a year, right before planting. 
  The Nile froze in winter. 
  The Nile flooded every month. 
5 How did Egyptians travel and move things large distances in Egypt? 
  
  by boat 
  by wagon 
  by walking 
  by camel 
6 Which Egyptian god judged people after they died? 
  
  Osiris 
  Horus 
  Set 
  Isis 
8 What did the Egyptians believe was the cause of the yearly flooding of the Nile? 
  
  The river remembered how Osiris came back to life, and celebrated. 
  The river cried when it remembered how Set killed Osiris. 
  Rain or snow ran down from the far-distant mountains. 
 9 Who was the chief god of the Egyptians? 
  
  Zeus 
  Osiris 
  Isis 
  Ra 
Sun God 
10 Where did Egyptians build their houses? 
  
  in pyramids 
  right next to the Nile 
  a little ways up from the river, past the fields 
  in mastabas 
 11 Which color crown stood for which kingdom in early Egypt? 
  
  The red stood for Upper Egypt and the white stood for Lower Egypt. 
  The white stood for Upper Egypt and the red stood for Lower Egypt. 
12 Why was Upper Egypt called "Upper"? 
  
  Because it is higher than Lower Egypt. 
  Because it was further upstream along the Nile River than was Lower Egypt. 
  Because it is above Lower Egypt on a map. 
 13 About when did Narmer rule? 
  
  2300 B.C. 
  350 A.D. 
  430 B.C. 
  3000 B.C. 
 
上次的讨论: 
1. What is an advantage of being able to write things down? 
 
A. You don't have to be in the room with someone to give them a message. 
 
B. People can know what your words were long after you originally write them down. 
 
C. It allows you to instantly communicate with someone across the kingdom. 
 
D. Both A and B. 
 
E. All of the above. 
2. What do we call the form of writing the Egyptians used? 
 
A. cuneiform 
 
B. the alphabet 
 
C. hierogyphs 
 
D. picture writing 
 
E. pictoscript 
3. How did the Egyptians originally write down their thoughts? 
 
A. They wrote on lamb's skin. 
 
B. They carved their hieroglyphs in stone. 
 
C. They used clay tablets. 
 
D. They wrote on paper with squid's ink. 
 
E. They carved their messages into wooden tablets. 
4、The people of which country carved their messages into wet clay tablets? 
 
A. Sumer 
 
B. Egypt 
 
C. Babylon 
 
D. Israel 
 
E. Greece 
5、What does Mesopotamia mean? 
 
A. river horse 
 
B. middle of the world 
 
C. great farmland 
 
D. land of the hippopotamus 
 
E. between two rivers 
6、Where was Sumer located? 
 
A. Where modern-day France is located. 
 
B. North of the Mediterranean Sea. 
 
C. West of Egypt. 
 
D. In the Fertile Crescent. 
 
E. At the southern end of the Red Sea. 
7. What do we call the Sumerian form of picture-writing? 
 
A. Cyrillic 
 
B. pictoscript 
 
C. cuneiform 
 
D. kanji 
 
E. hieroglyphs 
8、What Egyptian invention made writing a lot easier? 
 
A. the typewriter 
 
B. steel chisels 
 
C. vellum 
 
D. papyrus 
 
E. the Latin alphabet 
9. What's the biggest problem with paper? 
 
A. You have to harvest special inks to use it. 
 
B. Egyptians sometimes left it in their pockets and it fell apart in the wash. 
 
C. The Egyptians became weak because they no longer had to lift heavy stone tablets. 
 
D. Distracted Egyptian children wanted to make paper airplanes with it instead of study. 
 
E. It doesn't last as long as stone or clay. 
10、How are historians affected by the Egyptian adoption of paper? 
 
A. Many of the paper documents have crumbled and we don't have as many records as when they used stone. 
 
B. Historians know more about that era because Egyptians created more documents. 
 
C. We are able to read ancient newspapers about the gossip of the royal court. 
 
D. The Egyptian paper libraries are smaller than their stone libraries. 
 
E. The paper documents that historians are able to find are easier to carry than the stone ones. |   
 
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  一叶小舟
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能这么讨论,真不容易啊!孩子和老师都 ... | 
 
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您好,老师好棒啊,是请的一对一的老师吗? | 
 
  榴琏
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好想要这样的老师, 能悄悄地短我么? | 
 
 
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