美国英语听力80篇2 Lesson37
时间：2018-12-26 作者：英语课 分类：美国英语听力80篇
[00:05.15]Many people are visiting a museum in Chicago, Illinois to see ancient documents called the Dead Sea Scrolls 1.
[00:15.44]The world famous writings will be shown at the Field Museum of Natural History until the middle of June.
[00:23.98]Museum officials say it is the most extensive exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls in North America.
[00:32.10]Officials in Israel lent the documents to the museum.
[00:36.94]The Dead Sea Scrolls were written in what is now Israel more than 2,000 years ago.
[00:45.22]They represent the oldest surviving copies of the Old Testament 2 of the Bible.
[00:51.38]The Jewish and Christian 3 religions consider the Bible to be holy.
[00:56.84]The scrolls were discovered in 1947 near Oumran, along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea.
[01:05.75]Experts say some of the writings describe the laws and beliefs of the people who wrote them.
[01:14.45]Many experts believe the writers were from a group called the Essenes, who lived in Qumran.
[01:21.58]Other experts believe the scrolls were written in Jerusalem
[01:25.94]and hidden in caves near Qumran to protect them from invading Roman forces.
[01:32.73]The Field Museum exhibit contains parts of fifteen of the ancient documents.
[01:39.37]They include five documents that have never been shown outside Israel.
- Either turn it off or only pick up selected stuff like wands, rings and scrolls. 把他关掉然后只捡你需要的物品，像是魔杖(wand)，戒指(rings)和滚动条(scrolls)。 来自互联网
- Ancient scrolls were found in caves by the Dead Sea. 死海旁边的山洞里发现了古代的卷轴。 来自辞典例句