tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 121 - Gondwanaland

giới thiệu đến bạn IELTS Academic Reading Sample 121 - Gondwanaland nhằm giúp các bạn có tài liệu ôn tập, luyện tập nhằm nắm vững được những kiến thức, kĩ năng cơ bản, đồng thời vận dụng kiến thức để giải các bài tập đề thi một cách thuận lợi. Chúc các bạn thi tốt! | Read the following passage and answer the questions 1- 13 on your answer sheet. Gondwanaland A. Meet Mesosaurus a small reptile which lived in fresh-water lakes and streams millions of years ago during the lower Permain age. Mesosaurus has had a big impact on how we view our planet because he helped to prove the existence of the super-continent called Gondwanaland. B. Every schoolchild has probably looked at a map of the earth and noticed how Africa and South America fit together like pieces of a giant jigsaw yet until just over a hundred and fifty years ago no-one believed that this was more than an odd coincidence. It seemed impossible that the massive continents of the earth could ever be moved let alone so far apart that they ended up half a planet from each other. C. Nevertheless in 1912 Alfred Wegener a German meteorologist came up with the theory that the continents of the earth had all existed in a single mass which he called Pangaea which is Greek for all the world Later researchers decided that Pangaea had been two continents one to the north of the other which had existed about 250 million years ago. From the geological evidence found in the Gondwana area of India an Austrian geologist Eduard Suess coined the name Gondwanaland for the southern supercontinent of which India was once a part. The northern continent was called Lurasia. D. For many years super-continents were regarded as an interesting theory but no-one knew how it might work in reality. Then the discovery of the mechanisms of plate tectonics showed how continents might drift across the face of the globe. Once it was accepted that 1 the continents were floating on currents of lava more evidence became apparent. A particular type of an early plant the seed fern was found on continents now scattered about the southern hemisphere of the world as were tillates a deposit left by glaciers in the ZIM ACADEMY Room 2501 Ocean Group Building 19 Nguyen Trai Thanh Xuan Dist Hanoi Permo-Carboniferous era