See how much the word changed.

Once the last person hears the word or phrase, they will say what they think they heard out-loud. This is compared to the original word that the game started with. This is the moment when all the players get to learn just how much the word or phrase changed through their “telephone line”.

51. The writer wants to tell us how to ______ by writing this passage.

A. hold an interesting party

B. learn words and phrases

C. play a party game

D. how to make friends

52. Picture ______ is the right way of playing the game of telephone.

A. B. C. D.

53. The words in Group ______ may be heard in the game of telephone.

A. duck-dark-park-luck

B. except-expect-expert-express

C. good-well-better-best

D. luck-lucky-luckily-unluckily

54. When the ______ person hears the word or phrase, he or she should speak it out loudly.

A. first

B. second

C. middle

D. last

55. According to the passage, statement ______ is TRUE.

A. The people who are in this game should stand next to each other closely.

B. We need some friends, a word or phrase and a telephone to play the game.

C. When you pass the word to the person next to you, you should shout it aloud.

D. The game of telephone can be played both in birthday parties and New Year parties.

D

What are fossils?

Fossils are the remains of plants or animals. For such remains to be considered fossils, scientists have decided they have to be over 10,000 years old.The word fossil comes from

the Latin word “fossilis”, which means, “dig up”.Fossils can be divided into “body fossils” and “trace(痕迹) fossils”. Body fossils are the remains of a plant or animal’s body. Trace fossils are the remains of the activity of an animal, such as footprints, egg shells, and nests.

How are fossils formed?

Some animals were quickly covered after their death by sediment(沉淀物) like earth, mud or sand. Over time, the parts of the animals that didn’t rot (usually the harder parts like bones and teeth) were covered in the newly formed sediment. Then, a lot of chemical changes happened to the animals bodies. Water with minerals(矿物质) went into the bone and took the place of the chemicals in the bone with rock-like minerals. In the end we get a heavy, rock-like copy of the original object - a fossil. There weren’t any changes in size and shape when an object changed into a fossil, but the fossil of a bone doesn’t have any bone in it!It is chemically more like a rock! According to scientists, fossils have been found on every continent(大陆) on Earth.