E: What about me? How'll you help me?

H: Oh, take that. (carelessly throws a handful of money into her basket We must have a celebration, my dear man. (leave together

E: (looking at the collected money in amazement Well, I never. A whole pound! A fortune! That'll help me, indeed it will. Tomorrow I'll find you, Henry Higgins. Just you wait and see! All that talk of (imitates him \

her own voice I'll see whether you can get that for me ... (goes out Act Two, Scene 1 MAKING THE BET

It is 11am in Henry Higgins' house the next day. Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering are sitting deep in conversation.

H: Do you want to hear any more sounds?

CP: No, thank you. I rather fancied myself because I can pronounce twenty-four distinct vowel sounds; but your one hundred and thirty beat me. I can't distinguish most of them.

H: (laughing Well, that comes with practice.

There is a knock and Mrs Pearce (MP, the housekeeper, comes in with cookies, a teapot, some cream and two cups.

MP: (hesitating A young girl is asking to see you. H: A young girl! What does she want?

MP: Well, she's quite a common kind of girl with dirty nails.I thought perhaps you wanted her to talk into your machines.

H: Why? Has she got an interesting accent? We'll see.Show her in, Mrs Pearce. MP: (only half resigned to it Very well, sir. (goes downstairs

H: This is a bit of luck. I'll show you how I make records on wax disks ... MP: (returning This is the young girl, sir. (Eliza comes into the room shyly following Mrs Pearce. She is dirty and wearing a shabby dress. She curtsies to the two men.

H: (disappointed Why! I've got this girl in my records. She's the one we saw the other day. She's no use at all. Take her away.

CP: (gently to Eliza What do you-want, young lady?

E: (upset I wanna be a lady in a flower shop 'stead o' selling flowers in the street. But they won't take me 'less I speak better. So here I am, ready to pay him. I'm not asking for any favours - and he treats me like dirt.

H: How much?

E: (happier Now yer talking. A lady friend of mine gets French lessons for two shillings an hour from a real Frenchman. You wouldn't have the face to ask me for the same for teaching me as yer would for French. So I won't give yer more than a shilling.

H: (ignoring Eliza and speaking to Pickering If you think of how much money this girl has - why, it's the best offer I've had! (to Eliza But if I teach you, I'll be worse than a father.

CP: I say, Higgins. Do you remember what you said last night? I'll say you're the greatest teacher alive if you can pass her off as a lady. I'll be the referee for this little bet and pay for the lessons too ...

E: (gratefully Oh, yer real good, yer are. Thank you, Colonel.

H: Oh, she is so deliciously low. (compromises OK, I'll teach you. (to Mrs Pearce But she'll need to be cleaned first. Take her away, Mrs Pearce. Wash her and burn her horrible clothes. We'll buy her new ones. What's your name, girl?

E: I'm Eliza Doolittle and I'm clean. My clothes went to the laundry when I washed last week.

MP: Well, Mr Higgins has a bathtub of his own and he has a bath every morning. If these two gentlemen teach you, you'll have to do the same. They won't like the smell of you otherwise.

E: (sobbing I can't. I dursn't. It ain't natural and it'd kill me. I've never had a bath in my life; not over my whole body, neither below my waist nor taking my vest

off. I'd never have come if I'd known about this disgusting thing you want me to do ... H: Once more, take her away, Mrs Pearce, immediately. (Outside Eliza is still weeping with Mrs Pearce You see the problem, Pickering. It'll be how to teach her grammar, not just pronunciation. She's in need of both. CP: And there's another problem, Higgins. What are we going to do once the experiment is over? H: (heartily Throw her back. CP: But you cannot overlook that! She'll be changed and she has feelings too. We must be practical, mustn't we? H: Well, we'll deal with that later. First, we must plan the best way to teach her. CP: How about beginning with the alphabet. That's usually considered very effective ... (fades out as they go offstage together 选修 8 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors-Reading A VISIT TO THE ZHOUKOUDIAIN CAVES A group of students (S from England has come to the Zhoukoudian caves for a visit. An

archaeologist (A is showing them round. A: Welcome to the Zhoukoudian caves here in China. It is a great pleasure to meet you students from England, who are interested in archaeology. You must be aware that it's here that we found evidence of some of the earliest people who lived in this part of the world. We've been excavating here for many years and ... S1: I'm sorry to interrupt you but how could they live here? There are only

rocks and trees. A: Good question. You are an acute observer. We have found human and animal bones in those caves higher up the hill as well as tools and other objects. So we think it is reasonable to assume they lived in these caves, regardless of the cold. S2: How did they keep warm? They couldn't have mats, blankets or quilts like we do. It must have been very uncomfortable. A: We've discovered fireplaces in the centre of the caves where they made fires. That would have kept them warm, cooked the food and scared wild beasts away as well. We have been excavating layers of ash almost six metres thick, which suggests that they might have kept the fire burning all winter. We haven't found any doors but we think they might have hung animal skins at the cave mouth to keep out the cold during the freezing winter. S3: What wild animals were there all that time ago? A: Well, we've been finding the bones of tigers and bears in the caves, and we think these were their most dangerous enemies. Now what do you think this tells us about the life of these early people? (shows picture of a sewing needle S2.: Gosh! That's a needle. Goodness, does that mean they repaired things? A: What else do you think it might have been used for? S4: Let me look at it. It's at most three centimetres long. Ah yes, it seems to be made of bone. I wonder how they made the hole for the ... S2: (interrupting Do you mean that they made their own clothes? Where did they get

the material? A: They didn't have material like we have today. Can you guess what they used? Sl: Wow! Did they wear clothes made entirely of animal skins? How did they prepare them? I'm sure they were quite heavy to cut and sew together. A: Our evidence suggests that they did wear clothes made from animal skins. We continue discovering tools that were sharpeners for other tools. It seems that they used the sharpened stone tools to cut up animals and remove their skin. Then smaller scrapers were probably used to remove the fat and meat from the skin. After that they would rub an ample amount of salt onto the skin to make it soft. Finally, they would cut it and sew the pieces together. Quite a difficult and messy task! Now look at this. (shows a necklace S2:Why, it's a primitive necklace. Did early people really care about their appearance like we do? It's lovely! A:Yes, and so well preserved. What do you think it's made of?. S4:Let me see.

Oh, I think some of the beads are made of animal bones but others are made of shells. A:How clever you are! One bone is actually an animal tooth and the shells are from the seaside. Can you identify any other bones? S1:This one looks very much like a fish bone. Is that reasonable? A:Yes, indeed, as the botanical analyses have shown us, all the fields around here used to be part of a large shallow lake. Probably there were fish in it. S3:But a lake is not the sea. We are miles from the sea, so how did the seashells get here? A:Perhaps there was trade between early peoples or they travelled to the seaside on their journeys. We know that they moved around, following the herds of animals. They didn't grow their own crops, but picked fruit when it ripened and hunted animals. That's why they are called hunters and gatherers. Now, why don't we go and visit the caves? THE FEAST: 18,000 BC Worried about the preparations for her feast, Lala quickly turned for home with her collection of nuts, melons and other fruit. It was the custom of family groups to separate and then gather again at different sites for reunions as they followed the animal herds across the grasslands. A wrinkle appeared on her forehead. If only it could be just like last year! At that time she had been so happy when Dahu chose her as the future mother of his children. He was the best toolmaker in the group and it was a great honour for her to be chosen. She remembered the blood pulsing through her veins. She had felt so proud as the group shouted loudly to applaud his choice. If only she had looked ahead and planned better this year! Then she wouldn't have been feeling so worried now. Having heard wolves howling in the forest, Lala accelerated her walk up the path to the caves fearing that there might be wild beasts lying in wait for her. She had no man with his spear to protect her. She had almost reached her destination when a delicious smell arrested her progress and she stopped. So the men had brought home

the meat for the feast! The smell of cooking meat filled the air surrounding her, and her senses became dizzy with hunger. She could see her mother and the older children preparing the deer and pig meat over the fire. Her aunts were making clothes with animal skins. Abruptly she sat down, only to be scooped up by her laughing, shouting sister, Luna. Lala smiled with relief. It was good to have her family around her. Just then a tall