雅思听力真题（Part 3）
Part 3 · 考频：超高频 · 最近考试：2020.12.12/2016.7.30/2015.4.18/2012.11.24
答案：take great skill to produce
原文定位：Oh, the Maori greenstone tikis. They're all a bit organic for my taste. You know, all curves and twisting shapes. I like modern stuff, geometric shapes, but I can see the skill involved in making them;But the stories behind the tikis are what make them interesting. Besides, I imagine it would be difficult to create geometric patterns. The shape of each tiki seems to follow the natural contours of the stone. It's extremely hard, and it requires expertise and time to shape;That's true
答案：the majority become inherited items
原文定位：But there aren't that many genuine old ones around. Archaeologists rarely discover such treasures, which is odd given they are such a huge part of Maori culture. I wonder if archaeological dig sites were raided, and the tikis were taken to sell;I believe it's because the owners valued them and so preserved them. Many of them would have been passed down through the generations and remain in the possession of the families today, like heirlooms
同义替换：「so few genuine old tikis found on archaeological dig sites」↔「Archaeologists rarely discover such treasures」，「the majority become inherited items」↔「Many of them would have been passed down through the generations and remain in the possession of the families today, like heirlooms」
答案：religious objects
原文定位：Do you know what they were used for;I thought they were just an art form or a means of decoration, but Professor Matiu says that the Maori believed tikis were sacred and could be used as a pathway to their ancestors. They believed the dead could speak to them through these talismans;So they don't represent tribes or anything? Interesting
同义替换：「considered」↔「believed」，「religious objects」↔「sacred」
答案：the position of the body
原文定位：Can they, by the materials? I've seen some with metal features. Or is it to do with size or where they were made;Actually, it is the ways that their feet, heads, and hands are placed that make the major difference
同义替换：「classified into one type or the other」↔「can be divided into two distinct groups」，「the position of the body」↔「the ways that their feet, heads, and hands are placed」
答案：they are too regular in shape
原文定位：Is it easy to discern the difference between the ancient stones and more modern reproductions? Are the styles very different;Modern reproductions usually use a different type of stone. Although they may be of the same design, they may also be of a smaller size. But it's actually quite easy to tell if you are buying a genuine carving or a mass-produced souvenir;How;Nowadays, they are produced by machine using lasers even, so they have no blemishes. In genuine carvings, they aren't always perfect because the Maori used simple hand tools. For example, the hole that the cord is fed through isn't perfectly round
同义替换：「easily distinguished from」↔「easy to discern the difference between」
答案：Stone scoring tool
原文定位：Yes, but first, they had to get a blank of the right size;You mean a piece of stone of the right size and basic shape;That's right. They used a hard stone tool, something rough, to wear a groove into a piece of greenstone. After they'd scored it with that, they could just snap it in two. I guess they could have used some kind of hammer, though. They repeated the process until they had a piece of stone suitable for what they wanted to carve. Usually flat pieces for tikis
同义替换：「creating a blank」↔「get a blank of the right size」
答案：Sandstone block
原文定位：Right. Because they're fairly small and quite thin. Then they started carving;Not right away. Before they could start carving, they needed an absolutely smooth, flat surface. Nowadays, when we want to do something like that, we'd clamp the stone in a vice and use a sander. But they used a heavy block of sandstone and rubbed the piece of greenstone on it over and over to prepare it for carving
同义替换：「smoothing」↔「rubbed the piece of greenstone on it over and over」
答案：Bone point
原文定位：It must have been very time-consuming. So how did they cut out the little details like hands and feet;They had carving tools. They used small chips of stone, glued and tied onto a wooden handle. Then they also used a piece of sharpened bone made into a point
答案：Stick drill
原文定位：Is that what they used to make the holes;Actually, they had a special tool to make holes. It was a stick tied between two heavy pebbles with a point at the end. They would wrap string around it, pull it back and forth to wear a hole into the tiki. They used the same technique to make round shapes too, but didn't make the hole go all the way through
同义替换：「Stick drill」↔「a stick tied between two heavy pebbles with a point at the end」
答案：Plant glue
原文定位：And I've seen some tikis with colored eyes or decorations. Are they painted;Mostly, they are inlaid with different colored stone or mother of pearl from shells, or sometimes dyed pieces of bone. They were fixed in place using tarata gum, a sticky plant resin. They used plants to make the natural strings, too