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Publicado: 7 de marzo de 2013
PRIMERA PARTE
Esta parte de la prueba consta da 5 pregunta, de la 1a a la 5.
Tauris is agreat and noble city, situated in a great province called Iraq, in which there are many other important towns and villages, However, asTauris is the most noble, because it has been the strategic point for traveling toward China I will tell you about this.
The men of Tauris make their living by trade and handicrafts, for they weave many kinds of beautiful and valuable Items of silk and gold. The city has such a good
position that now merchandise is brought there from India, Bagdad, Cremesor, and many other regions: andthat attracts many Latin merchant, especially Gengase to be goods and to transact other business there ; besides _:________________
for precious stones. In fact, it is a city where local merchants make large profits.
The people of the place are themselves poor creatures. There are Armenians, Nestorians, Jacobites, Georgians, Persians, and finally the natives of the city themselves, who. areworshippers of Muhammad. They are know as the Tauris. The
city is completely surrounded by lovely gardens, full of many varieties of large and of many varieties of large and excellent fruits and flowers.
from The Traveis of Marco Polo
(Adaptad)
1. Latin traders were attracted to Tauris to because it was
A) An active commercial center,B) the most noble city of Iraq.
C) The Muhammadan religious center. D) A mixture of rich towns and villages.
2. The city’s original importance was due mainly due to its
A) nobility. B) location. C) handicrafts. D) importations.
All dinosaurs died. There is not one left on the Hearth, they havebeen dead for millions of years. But when you ask “ why did they all die “ you are asking a very hard questions. It is such a hard question that the best scientists in the world are not sure of the answer. They have ideas that may explain why these large, fierce dinosaurs all died but no one is sure.
The first thing to remember is that the climate on theearth has not always been the same. It has changed from warm to cold and wet to dry and in other ways too. Once part of the united states and all of Canada were conveyed with a layer of ice many feet trick. One many parts of the continent were covered with water, the earth has changed many times since animals and plants first lived on it.
Many scientists thinkthat these changes in the climate may have caused the dinosaurs to die. When the climate changed many of the plants could no longer live. When the plants were gone the dinosaurs ford was gone. Even the dinosaurs who ate animals is could not live in many of the animals they ate for food lived on plants.
But many scientists think there were other reasons why thedinosaurs died. Perhaps found their happened to their eggs. Maybe some others animals found their eggs and ate so many that there were no more young dinosaurs or perhaps the change of climate they kept he eggs from hatching some scientists believed that some dinosaurs may have eating the eggs of other dinosaurs, but why would this be all of a sudden?. This is a puzzle thatscientists have not solved.
Taken from speaking of dinosaurs by: Glenn J Bloch
to hatch to cause and eggs to break open.
3.-According to the text, the reasons for the extinction of dinosaurs are.
a) Remote uncertain peculiar distorted
4.-which of the following statements is true according to the article.
a) All Dinosaurs lived on...
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