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Установите соответствие рубрик 1–5 текстам A–E. Каждому тексту соответствует одна рубрика.
- A rare specimen
- An expedition
- A reptile
- Fantastic books
- Prehistoric animals
A. [a rare specimen|an expedition|a reptile|fantastic books|prehistoric animals]
The Siberian Mammoth is considered one of the most famous prehistoric animals that have ever walked on the territory of Russia. As recent research has shown, there were specimens much older than dinosaurs. These animals lived on the planet during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. At that time shallow seas covered half of what is now the country of Russia.
B. [a rare specimen|an expedition|a reptile|fantastic books|prehistoric animals]
The most anticipated premiere of the summer 2015 was the fantasy film Jurassic World. This film was released worldwide. Prehistoric lizards are a favourite subject of science fiction writers. If you are interested in dinosaurs, there are many books written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Michael Crichton and Ian MacDonald that are worth reading.
C. [a rare specimen|an expedition|a reptile|fantastic books|prehistoric animals]
Last summer a group of students and their professors went to the Amazon rainforest for a week. Their aim was to explore the region and make notes about flora and fauna of that area. They did not have many things with them. The students were allowed to take the most necessary equipment and no gadgets at all. It was a very unusual experience for all of them!
D. [a rare specimen|an expedition|a reptile|fantastic books|prehistoric animals]
The Komodo Dragon is the largest extant lizard. It is also the heaviest modern representative of the scaly species. Some lizards can be more than three meters in length and weigh more than 130 kilograms. These animals are spread around the Indonesian islands. Komodos are predators and do not currently overlap with other large terrestrial predators, except humans.
E. [a rare specimen|an expedition|a reptile|fantastic books|prehistoric animals]
In August 2017, a construction team found rare fossilized remains of a dinosaur in the American city of Thornton. The researchers presumed these skeletal fragments belonged to a Triceratops. It was one of the herbivorous dinosaurs that lived in what is now North America. Most of the fossils found earlier were between 10 and 12 thousand years old. But this absolutely unique fossil is much older and much rarer.