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[@english books new] IELTS Reading Academic Actual Tests (1)

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arrive safety in Europe, but, based on ringing evidence, some make it back to North 
America the following spring, after probably spending the winter European migrants in 
sunny African climes. 
Questions 21-22 
 
Choose TWO letters, A-E 
Write the correct letters in boxes 21 and 22 on your answer sheet. 
Which TWO of the following statements are true of bird migration? 
A. Birds often fly further than they need to. 
B. Birds traveling in family groups are safe. 
C. Birds flying at night need less water. 
D. Birds have much sharper eyesight than humans. 
E. Only shorebirds are resistant to strong winds. 
Questions 23-26 
Complete the sentences below using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage. 
Write your answers in boxes 23-26 on your answer sheet. 
23. It is a great mystery that young birds like cuckoos can find their wintering grounds 
without …………………….. 
24. Evidence 
shows birds can tell directions like a ……………….. by observing the sun 
and the stars. 
25. One advantage for birds flying at night is that they can avoid contact with 
……………….. 
26. 
Laboratory tests show that birds can detect weather without ………………. signs. 


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SECTION 3 
THE HISTORY OF THE TORTOISE 
A. 
If you go back far enough, everything lived in the sea. At various points in evolutionary 
history, enterprising individuals within many different animal groups moved out onto the 
land, sometimes even to the most parched deserts, taking their own private seawater 
with them in blood and cellular fluids. In addition to the reptiles, birds, mammals and 
insects which we see all around us, other groups that have succeeded out of water 
include scorpions, snails, crustaceans such as woodlice and land crabs, millipedes and 
centipedes, spiders and various worms. And we mustn’t forget the plants, without whose 
prior invasion of the land none of the other migrations could have happened. 
B. 
Moving from water to land involved a major redesign of every aspect of life, including 
breathing and reproduction. Nevertheless, a good number of thoroughgoing land animals 
later turned around, abandoned their hard-earned terrestrial re-tooling, and returned to 
the Water Seals have only gone part way back. They show us what the intermediates 
might have been like, on the way to extreme cases such as whales and dugongs. Whales 
(including the small whales we call dolphins) and dugongs, with their close cousins the 
manatees, ceased to be land creatures altogether and reverted to the full marine habits 
of their remote ancestors. They don‘t even come ashore to breed. They do, however, still 
breathe air, having never developed anything equivalent to the gills of their earlier marine 
incarnation. Turtles went back to the sea a very long time ago and, like all vertebrate 
returnees to the water, they breathe air. However, they are, in one respect, less fully 
given back to the water than whales or dugongs, for turtles still lay their eggs on beaches. 
C. 
There is evidence that all modem turtles are descended from a terrestrial ancestor 
which lived before most of the dinosaurs. There are two key fossils called Progaochelys 
quenstedtiand Palaeochersis talampayensis dating from early dinosaur times, which 
appear to be close to the ancestry of all modem turtles and tortoises. You might wonder 
how we can tell whether fossil animals lived on land or in water, especially if only 
fragments are found. Sometimes it`s obvious. Ichthyosarus were reptilian 
contemporaries of the dinosaurs, with fins and streamlined bodies. The fossils look like 
dolphins and they surely lived like dolphins, in the water. With turtles it is a little less 
obvious. One way to tell is by measuring the bones of their forelimbs. 


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