Tham khảo tài liệu 'english skills - through pictures (phần 3) part 11', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Life on earth began it is thought about two billion years ago. No one knows for certain whether there are living things on other planets on the red planet Mars for example or on any of the ten million million planets like the earth which are now thought to be ưaveling round other stars which are like our sun. It seems possibleeven probable that there are living beings not unlike men maybe on many of them. year. These changes may be caused by the growth of plants. The newest and highest development of living things on earth is Man. About a million years ago early men were beginning something new in the long story of the earth. 498 Let us change our time scale and make this line h-------------------------------- -------------q represent one million years the time since Man began. Then this curve may represent the next great steps forward into more complex ways of living. No one knows when speech began. Probably speech developed slowly and in different ways and at different times with different sorts of men. But certainly it was through being able to speak to one another that men became human. With the growth of language a great development of the parts of the brain which are used in talking took place. Speech gave Man greater and greater control over the world over other men and over himself. Without language Man would not have become what we mean by the word human. speech talking word language of tho vole . human like a man different from animals as man should be. will speak speak s spoke spoken 499 Let us change our time scale again and make our line represent 10 000 years. r 700-- JOL L L 00 r 8 000 000 4 000 2 000 Õ 2 000 The next great upward turn of our curve came some twenty-five hundred years ago. In many different parts of the earth Màn was discovering then his first full and clear ideas of himself and of his world. In Greece the great poem the Iliad and Socrates and Plato. In Palestine Amos Hosea and Isaiah. You may not make for yourselves an image of .
