2023-2024学年初升高英语每日打卡阅读学案Day11-12

初升高英语每日打卡阅读 每日阅读打卡 DAY11-12(人与自然） 导读：近些年，中高考阅读理解的取材大部分来源于英文原版文章，通过阅读英文原版文章，我们可以更直接地接触到外国优秀的文化，此外，这套英文原版中涉及的单词大多是新课标规定的词汇，对于我们日常扩大词汇量帮助很大，最后，这套教材多涉及社科人文自然热门话题，读起来有趣易懂，很适合作为课外阅读读物，后面还特别附上了猜测词义练习和阅读技能训练，希望对大家有所帮助。 Day11 The Truth About Dinosaurs For years, scientists thought dinosaurs were big, cold-blooded, and not very smart—in other words, just giant reptiles. Some dinosaurs were huge.But many were about the size of modern-day birds or dogs. Were dinosaurs warm or cold-blooded? Paleontologists are not sure.But they believe a few were intelligent. Some smaller dinosaurs—like the two-meter (six-foot) Troodon ------had fairly large brains. Was . rex a powerful predator? While some scientists think Tyrannosaurus rex was a powerful predator, others think the opposite is true. For example, in the movies,T. rex is often a fast-moving giant. In reality , this dinosaur could not run as fast. Physically , it was too large,so it probably moved about as fast as an elephant. T.rex also had very small arms and probably was not a powerful hunter. It may have been a scavenger instead, eating dead animals. Could dinosaurs fly? Some reptiles, known as pterosaurs, were able to fly.But these were not dinosaurs,even though they looked like them.Pterosaurs such as Tupuxuara could probably fly up to 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles)nonstop. Scientists believe pterosaurs were actually very heavy. So they probably could not take off from the ground like birds.Instead,they first had to drop or throw themselves from trees to fly, much like bats. Are all dinosaurs extinct? Dinosaurs completely disappeared about 65 million years ago.Scientists believe they died out because of a global climate change.The Earth's temperature was too cold for them to survive. Now you can only see them in museums. However, they believe modern-day birds are, in fact, dinosaurs' descendants.If this is true, then dinosaurs" relatives are still walking—and flying-among us! 【词义推测】 Match the two words with the same me