Упр.2 Тест Unit 2 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ English Михеева 9 класс
2. Read the text “History” and match its paragraphs (a—e) with their titles (1—6). One title you don’t need to use.
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2. Read the text “History” and match its paragraphs (a—e) with their titles (1—6). One title you don’t need to use.
1) Churchmen as Historians
2) Role of History in Earlier Civilizations and Today
3) Oral Tradition in Passing Down Information
4) History and Where It Gets Information
5) History and What It Studies
6) First Written Records
History
a) History is the story of the past. The people who write down history are historians. They usually write about important events such as wars, revolutions and governments, because these influence nations. However, historians are also interested in the lives of ordinary people and in what they did or thought about.
b) Nowadays, we think of history as being written down in history books. But in earlier times, before books and printing, history was passed on by word of mouth. People told stories about their kings, their wars, their adventures. It was in this way that the stories of Ancient Greece were collected by the poet Homer to form the “Illiad” and the “Odyssey”. Some early stories such as these were made up in verse and sung to music. This made it easier for people to remember the stories correctly.
c) In Ancient Egypt, scholars recorded the reigns of the pha-raohs and listed the victories they won in battles. Often, these accounts were written in hieroglyphics on stone tablets. The Chinese, Greeks, and Romans were also very interested in history. It was they who first took the writing of history seriously, and they wrote of how their civilizations rose to power.
d) During the Middle Ages in Europe, many people could not read or write, and printing had not been invented. The priests and monks preserved ancient books and kept the official records and documents. History became an important branch of study in the 1700s and 1800s.
e) Historians get their information from hidden remains such as things found buried in old graves, as well as from old books. The study of hidden remains is called archaeology. But history is not just concerned with the long distant past. After all, history is our story. What is news today will be history tomorrow. So modern historians are also interested in recording the present. They talk to old people about the things they remember, and they keep records on film and tape, often used for television news programmes.