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Module 6 Unexplained Mysteries of the Natural World adapt climate disappear extinct evolve survive 1. The _______ of a country is the type of weather it has. climate 1. Complete the sentences with the words below in the box. 2. If an animal or plant is ______, it existed a long time ago but doesn’t exist now. 3. When things _________, they no longer happen or exist. 4. When people or animals _______, they don’t die after an accident or an illness. extinct disappear survive 5. If you can ______ to something, you can change in order to make the situation better. 6. When animals or plants ______, they change and develop over a long period of time. adapt evolve Tyrannosaurus Rex, [tir?n??s?:r?s] 霸王龙 Tyranny + dinosaur Carnivore [?kɑ:ni?v?:] 食肉动物 2-3. Work in pairs and answer the questions about dinosaurs. (Listen and check) 1. Dinosaurs ruled the earth for about ______ million years. A. two B. twenty C. two hundred 2. They ate ____. A. plants B. meat C. both plant and meat 3. They became extinct ____ years ago. A. 600,000 B. 6 million C. 66 million 4. Their nearest relatives today are ____. A. birds B. fish C. mammals Read the listening material. Good afternoon, and welcome to this week’s edition of Mysteries of Nature. Today’s topic is a big one---it’s dinosaurs, those strange creatures whichruled the earth for no less than two hundred million years, some of them were plant eaters, others were like the infamous Tyrannosaurus Rex, a carnivores who lived off meat and who attacked the more peaceful plant eating dinosaurs. Not all dinosaurs were big --- some were the size of chickens , and in fact the closest things to dinosaurs living today are actually birds. But the mystery we are going to talk about today is why the dinosaurs suddenly disappeared exactly 66 million years ago, and to throw light