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INTERMEDIATE LEVEL INTERMEDIATE HEINEMANN GUIDED READERS .Macmillanenglish.Com INTERMEDIATE LEVEL ■ Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Points for Understanding 1 5 1 Alan Grant is a paleontologist. He studies dinosaur 1 The positions of the dinosaurs on the island. It can also bones. Ellie Sattler is a paleobotanist. She studies plants show their movements for the last 24 hours. from the time of the dinosaurs. 2 They detect where all the animals are and enable the 2 That he is very rich and he is interested in dinosaurs. computer to count them every 15 minutes. He gives money to people doing research on dinosaurs. 3 Two, the main generator and an emergency generator. He gives Grant about $30000 for his work. He has 4 (a) Muldoon is complaining that some of the animals are spent $17 million buying amber and he owns an island too dangerous and that people should not be allowed near Costa Rica. One of the companies he owns is near them. (b) Wu wants to make the dino-saurs slow- called InGen. er and less intelligent. (c) Nedry has been paid a huge 3 Gennaro works for InGen’s lawyers. Grant gave amount of money to build the computer system that Gennaro information about how dinosaurs lived, and controls the island. But it is not working properly – it is about dinosaur eggs and young dinosaurs. still full of bugs. Also Nedry is using all the island’s 4 Because the x-ray looked like a young compsognathus. phone lines for the whole weekend so that he can sort ANSWER KEY But they lived in the Triassic period, more than 200 out these bugs. million years ago. 6 5 To find out if Morris has been to see him. To ask Grant and Ellie to come to Isla Nublar at the weekend. 1 A computer, a walkie-talkie and a strange-looking pair of goggles. 2 2 Hypsilophodontids: these are about the size of a horse. 1 (a) Because there have been many problems at Dilophosaurs: look like very large birds. They have long ■ Hammond’s island. (b) Gennaro himself. And a paleon- necks, bodies with yellow and black spots and bright tologist, a paleobotanist and a mathematician. red crests on their heads. They are about 3m tall. 2 The island is divided into several sections. Between Triceratops: are the same colour as elephants. They them there are roads, and there are concrete moats have three horns and huge bony crests on their heads. and electric fences between these roads and the sec- Tyrannosaurus Rex: the adult one they see is 6m high. It tions. The roads are high up so anyone on a road could has red-brown skin, a huge square head and enormous see over the fences into the sections. The map of the jaws and teeth. Apatosaurs: these have long necks. island looks like the map of a zoo. Hadrosaurs: are smaller than apatosaurs. They also see 3 Gennaro, Grant, Ellie and Malcolm, a mathematician. a velociraptor. This is dark yellow, with brown stripes 4 The Biosyn Corporation wants him to steal some on its back. But it is not part of the tour. It should not embryos from Isla Nublar. Biosyn will pay him be there. Stegosaur: is a huge animal, about 6m long, $1500000 to steal them. The lawyer gives him half of with big plates of bone along its back and a very small the money. head. 5 (a) Chaos theory. (b) Hammond’s resort on Isla 3 A young velociraptor. Nublar. 4 Pieces of shell from a dinosaur egg. 3 5 The program only counted to see if any animals had died. So it did not look for more than 238 animals. It 1 He is a computer expert. He is going to sort out the was not counting to see if there were more animals. bugs in the computer system on the island. This is because Wu thinks that the animals cannot 2 The dinosaur which they see in the distance. Grant says breed. it is an apatosaur. 6 Grant is worried because he knows the animals can 3 The Safari Lodge. breed. The pieces of shell are from a velociraptor’s egg. 4 Whether the island is safe for visitors. And whether any There are now 37 raptors instead of 8, and they are dinosaurs will be able to escape from the island. very dangerous animals. 5 Hammond’s grandchildren, Tim and Lex Murphy. 7 6 Because Gennaro and the experts are there to see if the island is safe. No one should be there to take a hol- 1 Regis, Tim and Lex are in the first land-cruiser. Malcolm iday. Gennaro says the children might be in danger. and Grant are in the second. 2 Hammond wanted more changes to the computer sys- 4 tem, but would not pay him any more money. So Nedry 1 John Arnold, the chief engineer and Robert Muldoon, hates Hammond. And the man from Biosyn has offered the park warden. him $1500000 to steal the embryos. 2 Dinosaur DNA. 3 He is unable to find the east dock and gets lost. He will 3 They repair the broken DNA chains. not get to the east dock in time to meet the boat. 4 Dinosaur embryos are put into special eggs. 4 The dilophosaur spits at him. The spit gets into his eyes. 5 Wu says there are 238 live dinosaurs. There are fifteen He cannot see, and the pain is so bad that he falls to different species. the ground. The dilophosaur kills him. 6 A baby velociraptor. 8 7 It has brought equipment and food from Costa Rica. 8 They are shocked because the two raptors attacked the 1 Small animals, about 60cm high. They are young raptors. fence where they were standing. They know that the 2 (a) He can see the adult tyrannosaur by the electric animals wanted to kill them. fence. He knows the power is off. (b) He gets out of This page has been downloaded from www.macmillanenglish.com.HEINEMANN GUIDED It is photocopiable, READERS but all copies must be complete pages. © Macmillan Publishers© Reed LimitedEducational 2013. and Professional Publishing Ltd 1996. Published by Heinemann English Language Teaching INTERMEDIATE LEVEL ■ Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton the land-cruiser and runs away. 3 (a) Wu. (b) He hopes that the raptors will follow him, 3 Lex falls out of the land-cruiser into the mud. Tim Harding, Ellie and Muldoon to the Safari Lodge. Then remains in the land-cruiser when the tyrannosaur puts Grant and Gennaro will be able to get back to the it into a tree. Tim is 6m above the ground. He climbs Control Room and switch the system on. (c) The rap- out of the land-cruiser and climbs down the tree. tors are very intelligent. They understand the plan. As ANSWER KEY 4 The rex throws Malcolm into the air as he tries to run soon as Wu and the others are inside the Safari Lodge, from the land-cruiser. the raptors turn round and walk away. Ellie goes out- 5 The young tyrannosaur. side again to try to make them come back. Another 6 In a shed filled with hay. Grant thinks that it is in the raptor jumps down from the roof, and lands behind her. sauropods’ enclosure. Wu runs out to help her and the raptors turn towards 9 him. Harding pulls Ellie inside, but Wu is killed. 13 1 He wants to find the people in the land-cruisers. He knows there is no electricity so they cannot move. He 1 There are raptors on the roof of the Safari Lodge. They knows that the electric fences have no power so the are biting through the bars over the skylights. The sys- animals can get out. He does not want any trouble. tem must be reset so that the bars are electrified again. 2 That Nedry has turned the power off so he can steal And it must be reset before the supply ship arrives at the embryos. And that he has taken the Jeep. the dock in San José. There are raptors on the ship, 3 He tells him that they have found Regis, who is dead, and someone must tell the captain to return to the Points for Understanding and Malcolm, who is badly hurt. Ellie and Harding have island. taken Malcolm to the Safari Lodge. But Harding thinks 2 They take the security card from a dead guard and use ■ Malcolm will die if they don’t get him to a hospital. the card to open the nearest door. They go through 4 The phones still do not work. Arnold has to shut down the door and through some other rooms. When they and restart the system so that everything will be reset. come out into the corridor again, Grant and Gennaro Then he is able to phone a hospital in Costa Rica. are there. Gennaro takes them to the Control Room. 3 Gennaro calls him on the radio. He tells the captain 10 that he’ll be arrested if he doesn’t turn the ship round. 1 Because the adult rex is chasing them. 4 He injects poison into some eggs. He rolls the eggs 2 An inflatable raft. towards the raptors. Two of the raptors eat the eggs. 3 The adult rex has been sleeping by the lake. When Lex They die immediately. The third raptor attacks Grant, coughs, it wakes up and swims after them. but he injects it with a syringe of poison. It dies too.
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