S3_ TB Unit 4 Word Formation

S3_ TB Unit 4 Word Formation

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There was a time when the plains 平原 of Russia and North America had carried glaciers 冰川 a mile deep. Before the glaciers there had been vast巨大的 herds兽群 of mammoths长毛象

(roam漫游) the plains.

roaming

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There was a

(draw) of them lifting their shield like foreheads额头 against a grey horizon 地平线,

drawing

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(march) of them on tall shaggy毛发蓬松的 legs over the (freeze) tundra 冻土地带.

marching

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Marching of them on tall shaggy毛茸茸 legs over the

(freeze) tundra 冻土地带.

frozen

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Before the glaciers

(final) came,

finally

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the weather had gotten

(cold) and colder so that the mammoths had to grow longer hair.

colder

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However, even with their long hair, clever trunks and sixteen-foot tusks curved in

(like) tangles 缠结 of bone,

unlikely

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they had been

(able) to defend themselves.

unable

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I read that a herd of these mammoths

(evident) had been preserved intact 完好无损 for many (century).

evidently

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I read that a herd of these mammoths evidently had been preserved intact for many

(century).

centuries