黑龙江省大庆外国语学校高中英语必修四《M6P5Listening》课件.ppt

外研新标准 第四册 必修4;;;Good afternoon, and welcome to this week’s edition of _________ ___ ______. Today’s topic is a big one — it’s dinosaurs, those strange ________ which ruled the earth for no less than ____ ______ _____, some of them were _____ _____, others were like the infamous Tyrannosaurus Rex, carnivores who ____ ___ meat and who ________ the more peaceful plant eating;dinosaurs. Not all dinosaurs were big — some were the size of ________, and in fact the closest things to dinosaurs living today are actually _____. But the mystery we are going to talk about today is why the dinosaurs suddenly disappeared exactly ___ ______ ______ ___, and to throw light on the subject we’ve invited one of the world’s ________ experts on the subject, from the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, Dr Roger Binfield.;;(PRES = Presenter, DR = Dr Binfield) PRES: Good afternoon, Dr Binfield, and welcome to the programme. DR: Thank you. PRES: I’m going to _____ _______ __ the point, even if I think there’s not going to be an easy answer: why did the dinosaurs suddenly disappear, almost ________, 66 million years ago? ;DR: You’re right. There’s no easy answer to that question, but there are lots of theories. PRES: Such as? DR: Well, probably the most widely ________ theory is the _________ one... PRES: You mean the earth was ___ by a meteorite from space? DR: Yes, that’s right. ;PRES: And the dinosaurs died immediately? DR: Not exactly, not all of them. The meteorite may have hit the earth with such force that it ______ a huge dust cloud, which stopped the sunlight from _______ ______ ... so there was no light, no heat, and no food. PRES: But other animals ________? ;DR: Yes, smaller creatures like ________, which may have survived because they ate nuts and seeds. PRES: What other theories are there? DR: Lots. The dinosaurs may have _______ ________, and been unable to _____ ___ changes in the climate. Or they might all have killed each other. PRES: Is that possibl