Their speed and endurance are unusual fora creature so large, making them
the most suitable animals to carry people and goods around the world.
Horses
offer other advantages as well. Since they eat grass, they can go almost anywhere that
humans can, eating as they go
.
And unlike cows and camels, which must sit and rest to
digest food,
a horse’s digestive system allows it to graze and walk the whole day
without stopping.
By carrying people, goods and ideas between civilizations, horses
changed history.
Main idea in paragraph F:
Horses were the best way to travel on land for most of
the human history.
Possible headings:
ix
An ideal form of transport
i
The fastest breeds of horses
Comment:
Even though
paragraph F talks about speed, it only mentions it as one of
the advantages of travelling on horses. And it definitely does NOT compare different
breeds of horses based on speed.
i
The fastest breeds of horses
Comment:
The
main idea of the paragraph is how horses were ideal form of
transport and it is supported by giving a number of reasons:
They are fast (speed, they can go far (endurance, and most importantly, they can go
without stopping while eating (grazing):
ix An ideal form of transport
Comment:
We have
two more sentence-completion questions taken out of this
paragraph:
Q 12. As well as being quicker, horses have greater ………….… than most other
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