Exercise 23. Read the text. Fill in each gap with ONE word. You must use a word which is somewhere in the rest of the text. Dinosaurs. Nobody has ever seen a dinosaur. The last (1) ______ died about 60 million years ago, a long time before there were any people on the earth. (2) ______ knows for sure why they all died. The nearest living relatives of dinosaurs are birds. Dinosaurs didn’t all look the same. There were more than 5000 (3) ______. Some were very small, but others were (4) ______. The largest ones were bigger than any other kinds of animals ever lived on the (5) ______. The Brontosaurus, for example, was twenty metres long, and it ate plants. The Tyrannosaurus Rex was not as giant, but it was stronger. It had sharp teeth for eating meat, and it could also run fast because it had long back legs. Unfortunately, they all (6) ______ long before.

Перевод задания: Прочитайте текст. Заполните каждый пропуск ОДНИМ словом. Используйте слово, которое встречается в другой части текста.

Dinosaurs

Nobody has ever seen a dinosaur. The last dinosaurs died about 60 million years ago, a long time before there were any people on the earth. Nobody knows for sure why they all died. The nearest living relatives of dinosaurs are birds.

Dinosaurs didn’t all look the same. There were more than 5000 kinds. Some were very small, but others were bigger. The largest ones were bigger than any other kinds of animals ever lived on the earth. The Brontosaurus, for example, was twenty metres long, and it ate plants. The Tyrannosaurus Rex was not as giant, but it was stronger. It had sharp teeth for eating meat, and it could also run fast because it had long back legs. Unfortunately, they all died long before.

Перевод: Динозавры. Никто никогда не видел динозавра. Последние динозавры вымерли около 60 миллионов лет назад — задолго до того, как на Земле появились люди. Никто точно не знает, почему они все вымерли. Ближайшие ныне живущие родственники динозавров — птицы.

Динозавры выглядели по-разному. Существовало более 5000 видов. Некоторые были очень маленькими, а другие — крупнее. Самые большие из них были крупнее любых других животных, когда-либо живших на Земле. Например, бронтозавр был двадцатиметровой длины и питался растениями. Тираннозавр рекс был не таким огромным, но более сильным. У него были острые зубы для поедания мяса, и он также мог быстро бегать благодаря длинным задним ногам. К сожалению, все они вымерли задолго до этого.

Вставленные слова взяты из других частей текста: dinosaurs, Nobody, kinds, bigger, earth, died.