高中英语unit5meetingyourancestors听力原文练习新人教版选修8

高中英语unit5meetingyourancestors听力原文练习新人教版选修8内容摘要：

. It makes you realize how powerful Emperor Qin Shihuang was. ZL: Yes, indeed. And each of them has an individual face so that archaeologists think they must have been a copy of Qin Shihuang’s real army. But eight thousand statues are a lot of clay figures to protect and there have been problems. AP: Oh dear! What problems? ZL: Well, the first problem is how to keep their colours. Chinese archaeologists have discovered that the statues were painted before they were buried. But temperature changed and sunlight soon faded the colours after the statues were uncovered. AP: Why did that happen? ZL: First, some of them became a little bit smaller when they dried out after being excavated and that made their colour disappear quickly. Second, the damp in the tomb also affected the colours badly. But now luckily the scientists have discovered a new chemical protection, which will keep the colours shining brightly. AP: That’s wonderful news. ZL: Yes. It’s a very thin layer of chemical jelly which will preserve the vivid colours of the soldiers as well as protect them from the damp. AP: That’s great. So the problem’s solved. But I39。 m afraid that those statues that lost their colour can’t get it back? ZL: Sadly, no. But this breakthrough has helped deal with another problem. AP: What39。 s that? ZL: Well, you know that the terracotta warriors were discovered in 19。