Lesson 1 Finding fossil man 第一课发现化石人 by ROBIN PLACE from Finding fossil man 1-1. We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. 【译文】我们能读到五千年前近东发生之事，那里的人最先学会了书写。 【单词和短语】 read：此处为不及物动词，意为“读到，获悉”（to find out information