Exodus: exercises

Fill the gaps

Choose the missing word for each gap. The words are in the box.

After a long day at a wildlife park full of ferrets, giraffes, tigers and vultures, Choose…AbrilAttenboroughextinctionfossilMikeguntSirspeciesTyrannosaurus settles on the sofa with her dinner tray. Her father only lets her watch TV while eating if she picks a documentary, so she chooses one and is amazed by the presenter, who must be older than Grandma. Her father explains that he is David Choose…AbrilAttenboroughextinctionfossilMikeguntSirspeciesTyrannosaurus, a legend. Holding up a fossilised Choose…AbrilAttenboroughextinctionfossilMikeguntSirspeciesTyrannosaurus rex bone, Attenborough asks what story our own fossils would tell if humans disappeared. Then the documentary takes off into space. Aboard the spacecraft EXODUS, two robots wake up: Davidatt 1, a veteran explorer and science communicator, and Choose…AbrilAttenboroughextinctionfossilMikeguntSirspeciesTyrannosaurus 3, who specialises in holographic recordings. After twelve hundred cycles they are about to land on a planet they call THREE, the third from its sun, covered 70 per cent by water and home to more than eight million Choose…AbrilAttenboroughextinctionfossilMikeguntSirspeciesTyrannosaurus. But the old probe data also showed forests in decline. What will the robots find when the hatch opens? The story is inspired by Choose…AbrilAttenboroughextinctionfossilMikeguntSirspeciesTyrannosaurus David Attenborough.