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According to the author, Sereno's "luck" was actually a result of his

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   ability to speak fluent French
   
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   bribing a Chinese government official
   
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   position on the staff at the university
   
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   working in isolated and inhospitable places
   
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   knowledge of hunting large wild animals
   

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   We understand from the passage that the Mongolian official
   

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   thought that Sereno would hunt large animals in the desert
   
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   helped Sereno to get to the desert and dig for bones
   
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   knew everything important about the Gobi desert
   
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   actually knew that Sereno was a famous paleontologist
   
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   was impressed by Sereno's scientific discoveries
   

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   According to the information in the passage, the earliest known dinosaur Sereno found
   

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   was a huge type of bird
   
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   was similar to a Tyrannosaurus Rex but much smaller
   
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   was hunted by early big game hunters
   
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   lived exactly 225 million years ago
   
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   lived in the area where Niger and Morocco are located today
   

175 THE END OF THE MINOAN CIVILIZATION
For over 500 years, beginning in 2000 BC, there flourished on the island of Crete in the eastern Mediterranean one of the most splendid civilizations of the ancient world: the Minoan civilization. Its capital was Knossos, a city dominated by the palace of Minos the king. All over the eastern half of Crete there were cities, each with its own palace, and the population of the island must have been at least a quarter of a million. Minoan power and influence, however, were not confined to Crete alone, for the Minoans, by means of their ships, ruled the surrounding seas, set up colonies on the Aegean islands to the north, and established trade links with other peoples on the mainlands of Anatolia and Greece as well as with the Pharaohs of Egypt. Minoan objects and cultural influence have been found as far away as the ruins of Mycenae in Greece. But suddenly, sometime between 1500 and 1400 BC, the Minoan civilization came to an end, and was forgotten by the world for over 3,000 years. In the early years of this century, however, archaeologists discovered the remains of the Minoan civilization and evidence of its abrupt end. They thought that the Minoans had been overthrown by the invasion of a powerful enemy, the Mycenaeans from mainland Greece, but they could not explain why the Minoans, with their large fleet, should be taken by surprise before they could protect their cities, around which there were no signs of defensive walls; nor could they explain why the invaders left the capital, Knossos, intact, yet destroyed all the other cities.

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