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Let's Match

1 Match the news stories with an appropriate headline.

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Archaeologists were expecting to uncover the ruins of a Roman 1
quarry when they visited to watch the construction of a new
boathouse in Kaiseraugst, Switzerland. Instead, the construction
project in December 2021 found the remains of a once-powerful
Roman amphitheater. They discovered fragments of gates and
side entries along the Rhine's banks, complete with surviving
sandstone thresholds. The archaeologists also discovered
plastered inner walls. They found wooden grandstands as
well — as demonstrated by the impression of a wooden pillar —
where supporters may have once sat to cheer. ..............................................................
.............................................................. It took two years for Russian wildlife photographer Dmitry 3
Paleontologists in Queensland, Australia, got more than they 2 Kokh to eventually set sail in August 2021. He travelled 1,200
hoped for when they discovered a 95-million-year-old crocodile miles to Wrangel Island, a UNESCO-protected sanctuary in the
skeleton. The crocodile was not just a previously unknown Russian Far East, to capture polar bears in their natural habitat.
species, but it also carried dinosaur remnants in its gut. “This A storm drove his ship to seek shelter on the southern island
is the first time that a crocodile has been discovered with of Kolyuchin, where he discovered polar bears had taken
dinosaur remains in its stomach. It’s a world first”, exclaimed over the abandoned buildings and made them their summer
Matt White, an associate at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs home. According to news resources, the little island has been
Museum who coordinated the discovery's investigation. White abandoned since 1992 and is famed for its polar weather
and a group of paleontologists and volunteers discovered station. Only decayed structures and a ghost village remain.
the Winton Structure, a geological rock formation that has To Kokh's surprise, it now contains almost 20 polar bears.
previously given dinosaur bones. They weren't expecting to Kokh photographed the animals with a remote-controlled
find crocodile remains — they were seeking sauropod bones —
but when a front loader began scraping surplus dirt from the drone camera with low-noise propellers. Unlike Wrangel
site, they discovered the crocodile remains: Two remarkable Island, Kolyuchin Island was long presumed abandoned, but
discoveries were made by researchers as they investigated according to Kokh, life is unpredictable: “Nature often sends
the fossil. The eight-foot crocodile, firstly, appeared to be a you something unexpected, and when we passed Kolyuchin
previously unknown species. Secondly, its stomach contained Island on Chukotka's northern coast, we spotted movement
the remains of a tiny dinosaur. The dinosaur eaten by the in the windows. When we got close, we saw bears! It was
crocodile was an ornithopod, a tiny, beaked plant-eater that the first time they were seen in those buildings, so it was
lived 100 million years ago, according to him and his team. unique.”

a Bears Occupy Abandoned Buildings above the Arctic Circle

b ‘A World First’: New Species of Prehistoric Crocodile Discovered with a Dinosaur in Its Stomach

c The Earliest Roman Amphitheater Ever Found Was Recently Uncovered in Switzerland

2 Match the highlighted words in the news stories in A1 with the antonyms below.

A construction B inner C appear D seek E unique

1 disappear 2 common, ordinary

3 destruction 4 outer

5 ignor
e, avoid

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