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practice 3: According to Zhang Yongnian, head of the programme, he and his colleagues will focus on items that were stolen, excavated or looted and trafficked abroad between 1840 and 1949. Statistics from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization suggests about million Chinese cultural relics are held by more than 200 foreign museums in 47 countries. Some estimates put the number of Chinese cultural relics of that kind collected by individuals at 10 times that figure. It39。s Shaanxi Province, and also to overseas. Reclaiming cultural relics from overseas Cultural relic experts and NGOs have set the wheels in motion to begin reclaiming China39。t be found after the turbulent 10year period. Some senior collectors also had pieces in their collection auctioned off so that they would be able to move out of their shabby quarters into larger and better houses or 1996, the number of auction houses in Beijing was more than 20. However, art collectors have declined to sell more pieces after they had moved into larger houses. The additional cash they earned from auctions had found no ideal channel for investments. Meanwhile, Stateowned antique shops, a major supplier for auctioneers, could provide less and less real relics. As the supply problems became apparent, the auctioneers have turned to parts of the country they had neglected, such as East China39。s work fetched in global art circles in 1998. The rise in the price of artwork in its home country, and the forthing return of the country39。s autumn auction were collected from ing Guardian auction couldn39。tidal wave39。 the new words. 永定縣湖雷中學 賴昭明 Period 2 Reading Module 2 Unit 1 Cultural relics ? 1)Think of a cultural relic you know would you feel if it got lost?Why? ? 2)If you fing a cultural relic ,what will you do with it? prehension. Read the text on Page 1 in 10 minutes and finish the exercises in “prehending”. Keys: 1. 1)~5) BDBAC Keys: 2. 1)S 2)N 3)S 4)N 5)N Cultural Relics on Their Way Home Cultural relics as remnants of history, are regarded as records of the rise and fall of a nation. Many Chinese cultural relics, which have been scattered around the world over the last century, have started to return home to the collections of Chinese cultural institutions, enterprises and residents over the past decade. This wave of returning artifacts has aroused issues concerning the protection of China39。自從 1989年出土后,專家們的研究就從未停止過,但到目前為止,依然不知道它在商代是干什么用的。耳廊外緣各有三個圓形穿孔,前頸尖下端尖角鑄成鈍角;后頸下端略平,呈圓弧形。頭頂蓋與顱腔分鑄。 the cultural relics 寬臉,圓下頷,粗眉,大眼,尖鼻,大嘴緊閉,兩云雷紋形小耳,耳垂穿孔。 三星堆青銅人像 頂為子母口形,內(nèi)斂,子口上有小穿孔,推測原來另套接有冠飾。后腦部有一插發(fā)簪的凹痕。人像造型優(yōu)美,神完氣足。 it tells people abou