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　　Elephants are the largest living animals on land. More than 500 different kinds of elephants were found on earth over the last 55 million years. Only two kinds are still alive today：the African Elephant and the Asian (or Indian) Elephant. These elephants can only be found in hot places. The older kinds, which lived a long time ago, lived in colder places. An example is the mammoths(猛犸象)－the largest hairy elephants.

　　Mammoths were about the size of the largest living elephant, which is about 7 tons(吨). Unlike the elephants today, mammoths had black or dark brown hairs covering their bodies. All the mammoths had tusks(象牙). We can tell this from their fossil teeth.

　　Scientists found out about most of the extinct(灭绝的) animals by studying the fossils, such as their bones(骨头) and teeth that have been found. However, mammoths are quite different.

　　During the Ice Age, mammoths died and were covered deeply in the ice. The ice kept them well. While many animals only left behind bones and teeth, scientists found the whole body of the mammoth. Because the whole mammoth has been kept well, scientists can see even the hair, the tusks and the whole body.

1．What kinds of elephants can be found on earth today?

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2．Describe two features(特征) that can only be found in the extinct mammoths but not the living elephants.

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3．How do the scientists learn about most of the extinct animals?

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4．Why can scientists know more of the extinct mammoths than the other extinct animals?

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5．The writer tells us the mammoths in three aspects(方面). What are they? Please write them down.

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解析：

1．The African Elephant(s) and the Asian (or Indian) Elephant(s). 　　2．All of the mammoths had black or dark brown hairs and long tusks. 　　3．By studying the mammoths' fossils. 　　4．The mammoths were well kept deeply in the ice so that they can see their hair, the tusks and the whole body. (The mammoths were kept well in the ice during the Ice Age.) 　　(The mammoths were covered deeply in the ice so that they were kept well.) 　　5．①The writer tells us where the mammoths lived. (It tells us the place the mammoths lived in.) 　　②The writer tells us the differences between the extinct mammoths and the living elephants. 　　③The writer tells us why the extinct mammoths were kept well.