高中英语人教版高三2 09

[06:19.77]"How extraordinary!"I said."I think someone has been carving animals."
[06:27.21]I went further back into the cave and stopped still.
[06:32.57]In front of me was a wall of animals.
[06:38.63]It was like stepping into a secret art museum,in which we were the only visitors.
[06:46.57]I went on walking,bending down because the roof of the cave was not very high.
[06:53.83]"This is wonderful,"I said.
[06:58.19]I turned the corner and looked in astonishment.
[07:03.52]Here were not carvings in the rock but paintings.
[07:09.69]The sides of the deer were coloured with a reddish-brown paint.
[07:15.62]There were birds too,with the eyes carved out of the rock and painted white.
[07:22.49]I could see a snake,a bear,a wolf,but no people.
[07:29.54]"I don't think anyone knows about this,"I said.
[07:34.40]"I think we are the first people here for hundreds of years.Maybe thousands."
[07:42.58]Outside the rain had turned into a storm and lightning flashed over the hills.
[07:50.44]It was beginning to get dark."I think we'd best stay the night here,"I said.
[07:57.52]"We're warm,we're dry and we're safe.
[08:02.06]We've still got a little food and water
[08:06.22]and maybe by tomorrow morning the weather will have cleared up."
[08:12.17]I shall never forget that extraordinary evening.
[08:17.14]We collected more wood and laid it in a big pile inside the cave.
[08:24.22]The smoke from the fire rose and found its way outside
[08:29.86]and the light danced over the cave.
[08:35.03]On one hand,I was anxious to leave.
[08:39.99]I was so excited that I wanted to tell the whole world what we had found.
[08:46.34]I was proud that we had come across something that was completely unknown and valuable
[08:53.42]and I guessed,extremely old.On the other hand,
[08:59.90]I felt sad that I wasn't able to tell my grandparents that we were safe.
[09:06.35]We were in a better position than they were.
[09:10.92]I realized that they would be very worried,
[09:15.60]but that they would trust our good sense,wherever we were.
[09:20.85]Another part of me wanted this moment to continue for ever.
[09:27.72]This evening the cave was ours.It belonged to no one else.
[09:35.09]I knew that experts from the local museum would soon visit the cave.
[09:41.75]Professors from the university in Paris would be coming down by train.
[09:48.09]There would be pictures in magazines and newspapers,
[09:53.55]showing crowds of people with their cameras and noisy,excited talk.
[09:59.61]We were so excited,,my brother and I,that we did not get to sleep until very late.
[10:07.58]We talked and wondered about the people who had lived here before.
[10:13.64]How many people lived here?When did they leave this area?
[10:19.28]What clothes did they weat? What were their names?What languages did they speak?
[10:26.83]Neither of us realized that night that these carvings and paintings
[10:33.89]dated back 15,000 years,
[10:39.16]nor that the headline in the newspaper would be
[10:43.92]"The find of the century---Children aged 13 and 11 discover cave paintings."