A BLAST FROM THE PAST
In recent years, museums around the word have (1) _______ a campaign to tell us as much about extinct species like dinosaurs as possible. They have been (2) _______ and abetted in their endeavours by film directors like Steven Spielberg and by the public’s passion for prehistoric creatures. Now the Natural History Museum in London has (3) _______ delivery of a Tyrannosaurus rex, which is the most sophisticated model of a dinosaur ever built. It draws on a (4) _______ of information gleaned from important finds over the last thirty years, and is a (5) _______ cry from the dry-as-dust fossils and skeletons that used to be the best a museum could offer – this creature looks, sounds, and even smells like a dinosaur. It incorporates state-of-the- (6) _______ movement sensors, so that it can respond to the approach of a human being by lunging terrifyingly with its hideous mouth (7) _______ open. Its victims were a class of primary school pupils, (8) _______ into the prehistory section by their teacher. When the Tyrannosaurus rex became aware of their movements, it lashes its three-metre tail, threw up its, great head and (9) _______. This stopped the school children in their (10) _______, and they gazed up at the huge animal, transfixed.