III. New knowledge

Read the text carefully to find the answers to the following questions.

1. When did dinosaurs live?

2. When did dinosaurs disappear?

3. What's the rare new species of dinosaurs discovered in Liaoning Province?

4. What might be the possible reasons for their extinction?

IV.True of False

1. There are many different species of dinosaur and all of them have been found in China.

2. Not long ago, a rare new species of bird-like dinosaur was discovered in Henan Province.

3. Some scientists are sure dinosaurs died out because the earth got too hot for the dinosaurs to live on any more.

4. Dinosaurs died out quickly about 65 million years ago and many other animals have died out more recently.

5. Scientists learned that the bird-like dinosaurs could not only run like the others but also climb the trees by inspected their bone fossil.

6. According to a UN report, dodo has disappeared as well as many other

animals and plants in the last 5 centuries

v. language points

1. They lived on the earth tens of millions of years ago, long before humans came into being.