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A meteorite（陨石）almost____(hit) an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettifer in the UK while he____(work) on the farm. The meteorite was____(big) in the past 26 years in the UK. It weighed（重）one kilo, and might be over 4,000,000,000years old.
"I heard the big noise in the air. I looked up and saw something falling from the sky to the ground（地面）____ (heavy)," he said, "I had a bad____(feel) about it at that time.____ first I thought it was a plane."
Meteorites are small things from the space.____ about 3,500 meteorites may fall on the earth every year, only very few of these____(fall) rocks are found. Mr. Pettifer's meteorite is the fifth to fall in the UK____the year of 1939.
Mr. Pettifer is glad. "When you think about it coming from so far away.____ really is something strange."
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