课文1 发现化石人1. We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. 我们从书籍中可读到5,000 年前近东发生的事情，那里的人最早学会了写字。2. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. 但直到现在,世界上有些地方，人们还不会书写。3. The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas - legends handed down from one generation of story tales to another. 他们保存历史的唯一办法是将历史当作传说讲述，由讲述人一代接一代地将史实描述为传奇故事口传下来。4. These lege
