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סימולציה מס' 12

אנגלית – פרק שני

Reading Comprehension This part consists of two passages, each followed by several related questions. For each question, choose the most appropriate answer based on the text .

Text I (Questions 13-17)

The village of Cheddar, in the hills of Somerset in southwest England, is noted, of course, for its cheese, for the caves at Cheddar Gorge, and now for Adrian Targett, a history teacher at Wessex Community School. Targett found out last March that he is related to a 9,000-year-old Cheddar Man, the most complete ancient skeleton ever found in Britain. A television company working on a documentary about the historic area had contacted Bryan 5 Sykes, a geneticist at Oxford, to see if he could extract DNA from the Cheddar Man skeleton. Sykes was interested in comparing the genes of modern British citizens to the pre-agricultural hunter-gatherers of Cheddar Man's time, so the project suited him perfectly. The producers then asked Adrian Targett to find local students willing to be part of the sample modern population. To show his students that the method of DNA sampling, a cheek swab, was painless, Targett himself 10 participated. After analyzing a 400-nucleotide sequence of mitochondrial DNA in the samples, Sykes found that Targett and Cheddar Man differed at only one spot. The two must have shared a maternal ancestor, perhaps someone as close as Cheddar Man's mother. “He's clearly quite closely related,” says Sykes. Targett, however, knew nothing of this until the results were revealed to him and his 15 class on camera. “It was a bit surprising,” he says. Finding a match for Cheddar Man wasn't totally unexpected, says Sykes, who estimates that about 1% of the British population carries a similar bit of DNA. What's surprising, but apparently coincidental, is that Targett lives just half a mile from the cave where Cheddar Man was discovered in 1903. “I applied for 50 teaching jobs all over the country, and I happened to get the job here,” 20 Targett says. He's never seen the actual skeleton of his ancestor at the British Museum in London, “but I've become closely acquainted with the replicas,” he says, “because I keep being asked to be photographed next to them.”

Questions

13. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage above?

(1) Ancient Relations (2) Cheddar, England: the Home of Cheddar Cheese (3) Anthropological Sites of England (4) The Life of Cheddar Man

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