73. News-T-Rex skeleton brings $31.8 million

词汇

1.             fossil 化石

2.             auction 拍卖会

3.             bid  竞拍，出价

4.             rocket up 飞涨

5.             skeleton  骨架，骷髅

T-Rex skeleton brings $31.8 million

A 40-foot-long T-Rex dinosaur fossil named Stan was sold for $31.8 million at an auction. It became the most expensive item of the auction that day. In the twenty-minute bidding war that ended with buyers on the telephone in London and New York, the price rocketed up from a start of $3 million. However, the buyer's name is still a secret. Archaeologists who found Stan said: “He looked even larger than I’d imagined.”