Elephants are the largest living animals on land. More than 500 1 kinds of elephants were found on the earth over the last 55 million years. Only 2 kinds are still alive today: the African elephant and the Asian (or Indian) elephant. These elephants can only be found in 3 places. However, the older kinds lived in cold places a long time4. An example is the mammoth (猛犸象) — the largest hairy elephant.

    The mammoth was the largest living elephant, which was about seven tons. 5 the elephants today, mammoths had black or dark brown hairs 6their bodies. All the mammoths had tusks (长牙).

    Scientists found most of the extinct (灭绝的) animals by 7 the fossils, 8 their bones and teeth that could be found. However, mammoths are quite different. During the Ice Age, mammoths died and were covered 9 in the ice. The ice kept them very well. So scientists could find the 10 body of the mammoth.

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   最近，美国一家名叫“生命宝石”的珠宝公司发明了一种方法来捕捉人类骨骼中的碳元素，他们声称，只需数周的时间，就可以将你逝去的亲人或爱人的遗骸变成自然界花百万年之功才能得到的美丽宝石。这些“生命宝石”比天然宝石贵了好几倍。可以说，将逝去的生命，化成美丽宝石，并非只是诗人的想象。

   当然，不要据此认为自己的骨灰比生命更有价值，而关爱着你的人们更希望的是你健康地活着，要让有限的生命放射出比宝石更美丽的光彩。

   请以“让生命更美丽”为题写一篇不少于800字的议论文或记叙文。

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