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A piece of history has beenfound thanks to a boy tripping on a rare, 1.2-million-year-old animal fossil. (22)In November 2016, Jude Sparks, now 10, was on an outing with his family neartheir New Mexico home, when he tripped over what he thought was a cowbone. (23) Now, researchers at New Mexico State University preservingthis discovery, which was identified as an ancient elephant-like animal. Kyle Sparks, father of Jude, said he let his son decide what to do with thefossil.
So Jude reached out toPeter Houde, a professor at new Mexico State University who had experience withthe same type of fossil in the past. The next day Houde came out to see thefossil for himself. (24) Houde told ABC News that he was quite excited aboutthe find. It was fortunate that the family didn't try to dig up the fossilbecause that could destroy the specimen; they did the right thing bycalling someone who would know what to do. "It's great for the community,because now everybody can appreciate it," he added.
Houde and his fellowfaculty members dug up the fossil in late May. (25) They hope to return tothe site with geologists for an additional search as there could before fossilsnear the site. Jude and his family had been invited by the researchers tosee the fossil being preserved at the university.
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预览四道题各选项,由 cow bone、 rare animal、 historical site, precious stone、 preserving、 identifying protected、 fossils等词可推测,短文内容与某种动物的骨骼化石有关;再结合第24题选项中反复出现 the boy可进一步推测,发现化石的人是一个小男孩。
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22. What did the boy Jude Sparks think he had discovered?
A)【精析】 事实细节题。短文开头部分提到，2016年11月，裘德•斯帕克斯和家人一起在他们位于新墨西哥州的家附近游玩时，他被一块他认为是牛骨头的东西绊倒了。
23. What are the researchers at New Mexico State Universitydoing with the boy's discovery?
B)【精析】 事实细节题。短文中提到，现在新墨西哥州立大学的研究人员保存着这一发现，它被确认是一种类似大象的古老动物的化石。
24. What did professor Peter Houde say when interviewed byABC News?
B)【精析】 细节推断题。讲座中提到，皮特•乌德教授告诉美国广播公司新闻频道说，他对这一发现相当激动，幸运的是这家人没有试图将这个化石挖出来，因为那样会毁掉这个标本。他们给知道该怎么做的人打了电话，这种做法是正确的。
25. What do the researchers plan to do?
C)【精析】 事实细节题。短文最后提到，乌德教授和他的同事们在5月底进行了这一化石的挖掘工作，他们希望带着地质学家回到这个位置进一步搜寻，因为在这个位置附近可能还会有更多化石。