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广东省东莞市虎门捷胜中学2016-2017学年八年级下学期期中考试英语试卷
Elephants are the largest living animals on land. More than 5001 kinds of elephants were found on the earth over the last 55 million years. Only 2 kinds are still alive today: the African elephant and the Asian (or Indian) elephant. These elephants can only be found in 3 places. However, the older kinds lived in cold places a long time 4 . An example is the mammoth (猛犸象) — the largest hairy elephant.
The mammoth was the largest living elephant, which was about seven tons. 5 the elephants today, mammoths had black or dark brown hairs 6 their bodies. All the mammoths had tusks (长牙).
Scientists found most of the extinct (灭绝的) animals by 7 the fossils, 8 their bones and teeth that could be found. However, mammoths are quite different. During the Ice Age, mammoths died and were covered 9 in the ice. The ice kept them very well. So scientists could find the 10 body of the mammoth.
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