【目录】 1 Finding fossils 1 2 Dinosaur numbers 8 3 The first dinosaurs 10 4 Bigger and stronger 16 5 Big, bad, and dangerous 23 6 Strangest of all 30 7 Family life 35 8 Birds 39 9 A sudden end 42 10 Studying dinosaurs 46 11 Dinosaurs today 51 GLOSSARY 55 ACTIVITIES: Before Reading 58 ACTIVITIES: While Reading 59 ACTIVITIES: After Reading 63 TRANSLATION 参考译文 66
【文摘】 So scientists think the Age of the Dinosaurs ended like this. One day, 65 million years ago, theworld was full of dinosaurs. It began like any other day. Huge herds of dinosaurs were walkingslowly across Mexico. Oviraptors were sitting on their nests, and maiasaurs were finding food fortheir babies. Small feathered dinosaurs were flying from trees. Huge stegosaurs were walking slowlythrough the forest, and argentinosaurs were eating the tops of trees. Tyrannosaurs were watching theplant-eaters carefully, hoping for a meal. And dinosaurs from the parasaurolophus family, with theirstrange, hollow heads, were singing to their friends far away. The plant-eaters kept their eyes open, as they did every day. They were looking for danger ?C fortyrannosaurs and utahraptors, the enemies that wanted to kill them. But none of them looked up into the sky, where the real danger was. Then, suddenly, in a few seconds, it happened. A bright light filled the sky, and there was anenormous BANG! ?Clouder than anything they had ever heard. A great wind knocked all the trees flat,and a few seconds later, everything in the forest was on fire. All the dinosaurs nearest to the meteor were burned in a few minutes. There was nothing left ofthem, nothing at all. Those more than 50 kilometres away died more slowly. But all of them, all overthe world, began to die. In a few seconds, 180 million years had ended. 于是，科学家们认为恐龙时代就是这样结束的。6,500万年前的一天，世界上到处都是恐龙。这一天像往常一样开始：庞大的恐龙族群缓慢地穿越墨西哥；窃蛋龙正坐在它们的窝上，而慈母龙正为自己的宝宝寻找食物；长着羽毛的小恐龙从树上飞起来；巨大的剑龙在森林中缓慢地穿行，阿根廷龙在吃树顶的树叶；霸王龙仔细地盯着植食性恐龙，盼着能饱餐一顿；副栉龙家族的恐龙正用它们那长着中空骨头的怪脑袋向远处的朋友唱歌。 那些植食性恐龙们和往常一样睁着眼睛。它们在提防危险—— 提防霸王龙和犹他盗龙这些想要杀死它们的敌人。 但它们谁也没有抬头看看天空，真正的危险来自那里。 接着，突然间，事情在几秒钟后发生了。整个天空被一道强光照亮，并传来一声巨响！—— 这声音比恐龙们听到过的任何声音都大。一股强风把所有的树都吹倒了，几秒钟后，森林里的一切都燃起了火。 所有离流星*近的恐龙都在几分钟内被烧尽了。它们什么也没有留下，一丁点儿都没有。距离流星50多千米外的恐龙死得要慢一些。但是，全世界所有的恐龙都开始死亡。 片刻之间，1.8亿年的恐龙时代就结束了。
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