passage 7 ม.5/5

Passage 7
What, exactly, is life and now did it get started? Science’s answers to these questions are changing rapidly, since fresh evidence pours in from various fields. This summer a startling synthesis of the new ideas emerged during a week-long meeting of origin-of-life researchers in Barcelone, Spain. Life did not dawdle at the starting gate but rushed forth at full gallop. It was reported that fossilized imprints were found between layers of rock that is 3.5 billion years old. This, along with other evidence, shows that life was well established only a billion years after the earth’s formation, a much faster evolution than previously thought.
Answer the questions
1. What is the passage mainly about?
 1.What life is  
 2.Where life is from
 3.New evidence when life began
 4.Where we can find signs of life

2. What would be the main purpose of the writer?
 1.To inform 2.To question 3.To criticize  4.To argue

3. According to the passage, it would be possible to say that …… .
 1.life arose more quickly than first believed
 2.scientists still cannot prove what life is
 3.new ideas of life always emerged from a long meeting
 4.life originated between layers of rocks after the earth’s formation

4. The word “dawdle” [line4] means…… .
 1.change  2.  be born  3. start 4. go slow

5. From the passage, the writer compares the way life develops with …… .
 1.a  young horse 2.  a race horse 3.a work horse  4.a wild horse

Ravipa Yottasan ciass 5/5 no. 7