【正文】 some sense cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, illmannered, presumptuous of fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary clich233。 the problem of youth 39。 and, in another instance, wearing stockings and slippers, to make out with her foot the outlines and colours of a picture hidden under a carpet. Other experiments showed that her knees and shoulders had a similar sensitivity. During all these tests Vera was blindfold。s curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in the town of UIyanovsk, near where she lives, and in April she was given a series of tests by a special mission of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federal Republic. During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque screen and, stranger still, by moving her elbow over a child39。 the food simply local cheese acpanied by bread oftentwelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine. Often a valley boasted no inn at all, and climbers found shelter wherever they couldsometimes with the local priest (who was usually as poor as his parishioners), sometimes with shepherds or cheesemakers. Invariably the background was the same: dirt and poverty, and very unfortable. For men accustomed to eatingsevencourse dinners and sleeping between fine linen sheets at home, the change to the Alpsmust have been very hard indeed. 5Lesson 4 Seeing handsIn the Soviet Union several cases have been reported recently of people who can read and detect colours with their fingers, and even see through solid doors and walls. One case concerns an 39。 came , however, ancient men made tools of stone, especially flint, becausethis is easier to shape than other kinds. They may also have used woodand skins, but these have rotted away. Stone does not decay, and so the tools oflong ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them havedisappeared without trace.3Lesson 2 Spare that spiderWhy, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends ? Because they destroy somany insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the humanrace. Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world。 1NEW CONCEPT ENGLISH (IV)(new version) 2Lesson 1 Finding Fossil manWe can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. The only way that they can preserve their history is torecount it as sagaslegends handed down from one generation of storytellersto another. These legends are useful because they can tell us something aboutmigrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did.Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesianpeoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from. The sagas of these peopleexplain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even theirsagas, if they had any, are forgotten. So archaeologists have neither history norlegends to help them to find out where the first 39。modern men39。 they woulddevour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protectionwe get from insecteating animals. We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never dothe least harm to us or our are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to can tell the difference almost at a glance for a spider always has eight legsand an insect never more than many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf ? One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England, andhe estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre, that is something like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch. Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects. It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not content with only three meals a day. It has been estimated that the weight of all the insectsdestroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the . H. GILLESPIE Spare that Spider from The Listener 4Lesson 3 Matterhorn manModern alpinists try to climb mountains by a route which will give them goodsport, and the more difficult it is, the more highly it is regarded. In the pioneeringdays, however, this was not the case at all. The early climbers were looking forthe easiest way to the top because the summit was the prize they sought, especially if it had never been attained before. It is true that during their explorations they often faced difficulties and dangers of the most perilous nature, equippedin a manner which would make a modern climber shudder at the thought, but they did not go out of their way to court such excitement. They had a single aim,a solitary goalthe top!It is hard for us to realize nowadays how difficult it was for the pioneers. Exceptfor one or two places such as Zermatt and Chamonix, which had rapidly bee popular, Alpine villages tended to be impoverished settlements cut off from civilization by the high mountains. Such inns as there were were generally dirty and flearidden。elevenyearold schoolgirl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls. This ability was first noticed by her father. One day she came into his office and happened to put her hands on the door of a locked safe.Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there, and even described the way they were done up in 39。s game of Lott