跟读练习: Ielts! CAM19-listening-Test1-Part4 - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Part 4.
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You will hear an archaeology student giving a presentation on an important site in Ireland called the Cagy Fields.
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First you have some time to look at questions 31 to
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Thank you.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.
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For my presentation today, I'm going to talk about the cagey fields in the northwest of Ireland,
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one of the largest Neolithic sites in the world.
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I recently visited this site and observed the work that is currently being done by a team of archaeologists there.
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The site was first discovered in the 1930s by a local teacher, Patrick Caulfield.
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He noticed that when local people were digging in the bog,
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They were constantly hitting against what seemed to be rows of stones.
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He realised that these must be walls,
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and that they must be thousands of years old for them to predate the bog which subsequently grew over them.
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He wrote to the National Museum in Dublin to ask them to investigate,
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but no one took him seriously.
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It wasn't until 40 years later when Patrick Caulfield's son,
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Seamus, who had become an archaeologist by then, began to explore further.
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He inserted iron probes into the bog to map the formation of the stones,
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a traditional method which local people had always used for finding fuel buried in the bog for thousands of years.
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Carbon dating later proved that the site was over 5,000 years old and was the largest Neolithic site in Ireland
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Thanks to the bog which covers the area,
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the remains of the settlement at KG Fields,
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which is over 5,000 years old,
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are extremely well preserved A bog is 90% water,
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its soil so saturated that when the grasses and heathers that grow on its surface die,
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they don't fully decay but accumulate in layers.
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Objects remain so well preserved in these conditions because of the acidity of the peat and the deficiency of oxygen.
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At least 175 days of rain a year are required for this to happen.
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This part of Ireland gets an average of 225 days.
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The Neolithic farmers at Keiji would have enjoyed several centuries of relative peace and stability.
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Neolithic farmers generally lived in larger communities than their predecessors,
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with a number of houses built around a community building.
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As they lived in permanent settlements,
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Neolithic farmers were able to build bigger houses.
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These weren't round, as people often assume,
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but rectangular, with a small hole in the roof that allowed smoke to escape.
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This is one of many innovations and indicates that the Neolithic farmers were the first people to cook indoors.
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Another new technology that Neolithic settlers brought to Ireland was pottery.
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Fragments of Neolithic pots have been found in KG and elsewhere in Ireland.
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The pots were used for many things,
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as well as for storing food.
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Pots were filled with a small amount of fat,
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and when this was set alight they served as lamps.
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It's thought that the cagey fields were mainly used as paddocks for animals to graze in.
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Evidence from the cagey fields suggests that each plot of land was of a suitable size to sustain an extended family.
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They may have used a system of rotational grazing in order to prevent overgrazing and to allow for plant recovery and regrowth.
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This must have been year-round activity,
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as no structures have been found which would have been used to shelter animals in the winter.
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However, archaeologists believe that this way of life at Keiji ceased abruptly.
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Why was this?
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Well, several factors may have contributed to the changing circumstances.
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The soil would have become less productive and led to the abandonment of farming.
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The crop rotation system was partly responsible for this,
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as it would have been very intensive and was not sustainable.
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But there were also climatic pressures too.
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The farmers at Keiji would have enjoyed a relatively dry period,
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but this began to change,
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and the conditions became wetter,
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as there was a lot more rain.
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It was these conditions that encouraged the bog to form over the area which survives today.
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So now I'd like to show you some...
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That is the end of part four.
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You now have one minute to check your answers to part four.
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