Matching
Arrange the following sentences in the order in which they
would appear in a text.
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A. | 1 | F. | 6 | B. | 2 | G. | 7 | C. | 3 | H. | 8 | D. | 4 | I. | 9 | E. | 5 | J. | 10 |
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At this point, Mr. Brewster called in Dr. A.J. Prime to supervise the
excavation.
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Further digging revealed that what they had struck was a large elephant-like
skull and tusks.
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3.
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Once the skeleton was mounted, it was taken on a tour of New England and New
York towns where it drew crowds of fascinated spectators.
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One of the most famous mastodon skeletons in the United States is the Warren
Mastodon, named after John Warren, a professor of anatomy at Harvard, who bought the skeleton in
1846.
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Because the severe weather had dried up one of his ponds, Mr. Brewster had
hired workmen to remove the peat and marl from its bottom to use as fertilizer for his
fields.
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Not only was the skeleton complete, but also it was only slightly stained
instead of having turned black the way most bones of this type do after a certain length of
time.
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The men had dug about three feet into the bog when they struck something
hard.
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The discoverers were thrilled with their find, and Dr. Prime immediately began
his careful reconstruction of the skeleton.
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Under his direction, the workmen uncovered the beautifully preserved skeleton
of a mastodon, standing as upright as when it had sunk into the muddy ground thousands of years
before.
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The skeleton was actually discovered on Nathaniel Brewster’s farm in
Orange County, New York, in the previous year during a very hot, dry summer.
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