tailieunhanh - Test your reading part 13

There are more examples of letters, including an informal letter thanking someone for a present. And there is a test about buying and booking on the Internet. | 60 SECTÍ n 6 Ideas Fossils in a rock Charles Darwin 1809-1882 Before Darwin s book On the Origin of Species 1859 people believed that everything in the world was created at the same time. They believed that every animal and plant had always been the same and had not changed in any way. Then Darwin looked at rocks. In the rocks were fossils - life frozen in the rock. The newest fossils were at the top of the rock. But as Darwin looked under them he found older and older life forms until at the bottom of the rock he found animals that no longer lived in the world at all. The old fossils deep in the rock had changed into the newer fossils at the top. This slow change was known as evolution. All species that is all plants and animals evolved - changed. Most famously he said that our species homo sapiens man had evolved from monkeys. Darwin thought that man evolved from monkeys. Darwin also asked himself why evolution happened in one direction and not another. His answer was an idea called the survival of the fittest . For example the giraffe with the longest neck would survive because it can reach the tops of trees and so it can find food. Because it can find food that giraffe would live long enough to have young giraffes which would be bom with long necks. j giraffe reaches the top branches of The young giraffe has a the tree with itslongI First reading. Match the beginning of these sentences 1-6 with the ends a-f . M Before Darwin s book people believed it The newer fossils IB Older fossils IB The older fossils had changed ft An example of evolution is An example of survival of the fittest is MH were at the bottom. Ml man evolving from monkeys. c into the newer fossils. d were at the top of the rock. e every animal came into being at the same time. f the long necks of giraffes. Second reading. Answer these questions with one word. fel Who wrote On the Origin of Species Where were the newer fossils at the top or the bottom of the rock __ What is slow .