人教版高中英语必修一Unit4Earthquakes语篇演练(二十).pdfVIP

Unit 4 Earthquakes 语篇演练 (二十 ) 时间安排： 第七周 周三· 演练题型： 阅读理解 2 篇 建议用时： 15 分钟 答案栏： 1～4____________ 5～8____________ A Insects are usually quite small, some of which may be an inch or two long. But scientists now surmise that creatures like these were once very large. Recently, they have found fossils ( 化石 ) of huge cockroaches, which are bugs ( 虫子 ) with six legs that are still around today. However, they say that they still need more evidence. A few years ago, scientists found the fossils of a claw ( 爪子 ) in Germany. It was found in a place that was once an area of land covered by water. They thought that the claw belonged to a sea scorpion ( 海蝎 ). Then they put it together in the shape of the body. They were amazed at its size. How big was it? It was really big. The claw was a foot and a half long. That would make the bug eight feet long! That is the size of a small car. It is bigger than the tallest of men. Scientists were very excited to have found the fossil of the largest bug ever known. Imagine a large bug walking across your kitchen floor! Imagine watching the bug drink water from a pool! That would be very frightening. Humans were never in danger from this bug. The sea scorpion lived 400 million years ago. Fish lived on Earth then, but dinosaurs did not. The sea scorpion lived about 150 million years before dinosaurs. Huge sea scorpions lived for many years. They had no enemies until fish began to grow large teeth. Then fish began eating them. Finally, huge sea scorpions died out. Fortunately, at least one sea scorpion left a claw behind but it became as hard as stone. Then one day it was discovered, and this is the claw that the scientists found. Now scientists believe that more bugs from long ago were also very large,