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SÁNCHEZ CARRIÓN
ESCUELA DE POSTGRADO
EXAM N° 03
NAME: __________________________________________ NOTE
DATE: ___/___/___
During the last ice age, the giant ground sloth was an enormous creature
that thrived in the cold climate .it looked much like an oversized hamster and
fed on leaves it found on the lower branches of trees or bushes. The largest
of these ground sloths was a type called the Megatherium (1) ______ grew to
the size of the modern elephant. Like other giant creatures that
disappeared
(2)_____ the end of the Pleistocene period (10,000 years ago) Megatherium,
and its smaller sloth cousin, Mylodon ,became(3) ____According to
commonly accepted scientific evidence , the(4) _____known survivor of this
species is the small tree sloth .In the 1890s an Argentinean explorer was
hunting in Patagonia(5)_____ a large ,unknown creature(6 )_____ with long
hair ,trotted past his party. It looked like a gigantic armadillo. Startled by the
sudden encounter, the group (7) _____at the beast, but the bullets seemed to
have no effect.
They began a widespread hunt (8) _____ the region’s caves and recovered
pieces of hide. years later, when the Carbon 14 dating method came into
widespread use, the hide (9) _____ to be between 5,000 and 10,000 years old.
This negated the explorers’ claims that they had located (10) _____ of a living
giant sloth, but failed to explain the original encounter with the hunting party.
1. a. whom 4. a. well 7. a. shot
b. which b. Single b. aimed
c. who c. only c. gunned
d. these d. still d. rifled
2. a. at 5. a. despite 8. a. to
b. through b. seeing b. throughout
c. from c. for c. over
d. in d. when d. via
3. a. dead 6. a. covered 9. a. turned
b. vanished b. sheathed b. validated
c. extinct c. decorated c. confirmed
d. extinguished d. disguised d. proved
10. a. indication
b. sign
c. remainders
d. traces
3. Reading
“Are you ready? Now, Miss Jones this is your first question Who was
William Shakespeare?”
Was he a famous general?
“No he wasn’t a general; he was a dramatist. Bad luck Now, Mr. Smith, here’s
your question. Who was Napoleon?”
“Was he a famous footballer?”
No, he wasn’t a footballer, he was a general. Now Miss Jones, who was
Leonardo da Vinci?”
Put the past tobe (was or were) and the subjects (they, we, she, I, she, it,)
you)