tailieunhanh - The complete guide to the toefl IBT reading part 10

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the complete guide to the toefl ibt reading part 10', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 136 Section 1 Guide to Reading Until the nineteenth century when steamships and transcontinental trains made long-distance travel practical for large numbers of people only a few adventurers mainly sailors and traders ever traveled out of their own countries. In fact most people never traveled more than a few miles from the place where they were born. Abroad was a truly foreign place that the vast majority of people knew very little about indeed. When mapmakers drew maps imagination was as important as geographic reality. Nowhere is this more evident than in old maps illustrated with mythical creatures and strange humans. Lesson 7 Sentence Addition Questions 137 Circle the square that indicates the best place to add the sentence. 2. Look at the four squares that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage. In addition they searched for the elixir of life a substance that could cure disease and prolong life. Reading Throughout the centuries the dream of medieval alchemists was to discover how to turn lead and other base metals into gold. Some alchemists were fakes but many were learned men with philosophical goals. Their quest was based on the ancient idea that all matter consists of different proportions of just four substances earth water fire and air. They believed that it was possible to adjust the proportions of the elements that made up lead by chemical means so that it turned into gold a process that they called transmutation. Their experiments were concerned with finding the substance which they called the philosopher s stone that would cause this astonishing change to take place. They failed to achieve either of their goals. However their techniques for preparing and studying chemicals helped lay the foundation for the modern science of chemistry. 138 Section 1 Guide to Reading Circle the square that indicates the best place to add the sentence. 3. Look at the four squares that indicate where the following sentence could be added to