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A1 Match the news stories with an appropriate headline.

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

A2 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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