2014英语四级听力练习慢速4.4(2)_大学英语听力

2014英语四级听力练习慢速4.4(2)

　　m trying to build up an impression that theres someone home. When you look one of these in the eyes you feel there someone there. Theres some presence. It really feels like its more than just clay and plaster. Hopefully people will be a little creeped out by the final result, because they are expecting to see an inanimate object, but what they are seeing is something that has a little bit of a soul.

　　The bronze sculptures capture the moments of the major changes in human development. Visitors follow their ancestors footsteps as they move from model to model. They get to see a moment in which early hominids first walked on two feet. Visitors observe as brains get larger, fire is discovered and early humans look for food and react to danger.

　　Human evolution as revealed by the fossil record is not just a matter of everything we think of as human, starts sort of evolving in tandem together. Its much more of a mosaic affair, where different things are added at different times. So each species that is a candidate for human ancestry has its own piece of the human puzzle that it added to the mix.

　　Another representation shows a private family moment in Neanderthal life. John Gurche has created a young child watching his mother as she works with an animal skin. The boys head is turned a little to the side and up, as if he is questioning something.

　　Hes got a piece of skin also and hes wondering about what shes doing and whether he should do the same thing. Hes got that kind of quizzical tilt of his head. And she is responding to him with a lot of joy and hopefully you see some encouragement there is her expression.