READING PASSAGE 1
Questions 1 and 8
Highlighted in red
= Question 1
Highlighted in blue
= Question 8
Part of the passage Par A]:
Horses have been racing across the landscape for
around 55 million years
– much longer than our own species has existed. However,
prehistoric
remains show that at the end of the Ice Age,
some 10,000 years ago, wild
horses died out in the Americas and dwindled in western Europe
, for reasons that
are not clear.
But they continued to thrive on the steps of eastern Europe and Cen-
tral Asia
, where short grasses and shrubs grow on vast, dry stretches of land. Most
scholars believe it was here that people domesticated the horse. However, the DNA of
domestic horses is very diverse. This suggests they maybe descended from a number of
different wild horse populations, in several locations.
Main idea in paragraph A:
Horses have been around since prehistoric times.
Possible headings:
viii
An ancient species
x
What the earliest horses looked like
Comment:
Any other heading does not look even close, but if you
look attentively,
only one of these
two possible headings match the paragraph. Does it (the st para-
graph) mention how the earliest horses looked (their appearance)?
No, it generally
mentions that horses have lived on Earth for so many years since prehistoric (ancient)
times.
So the
correct answer
is:
Q 1. Section A:
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