Read the text below and think of the word that best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. There is an example at the beginning.
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EXERCISES
Fig. 2 Leaf imprint Fig. 3 Fossil fish
2.1 Mark the stressed syllable on the following words from the text:
nitrogen, carbonization, characteristic, oxidation, bacteria, organism, impregnation, phosphorus, favorable, unrecognizable.
2.2 Find the words to the following definitions in the text and translate them into Russian.
| tending to take away; detract | |
| that which is understood; deduction | |
| to point out; to show; to suggest | |
| having fixed (distinct) limits; certain | |
| ultimate; finishing | |
| to place in | |
| to oppose; withstand | |
| diminish | |
| a hint; key | |
| explanation | |
| to acknowledge; to admit | |
| to change | |
| to keep in a good state |
2.3. Give the Russian equivalents to the following word combinations and phrases:
- the word fossil carries a distinctly derogatory implication
- the term soon became to be restricted
- certain fossils were characteristic of the strata
- immediately after death
- in the presence of oxygen
- in the absence of oxygen
- other organisms that live on dead material
- under favorable conditions
- a reduction with increasing pressure
- for all practical purposes
- thereby resistant to attack
- past events are recorded cryptically in sedimentary rocks.
(0) Animalsand plants were not always as they are today. We can tell the history from the (1)___________ remains that they have left behind in the rock. A fossil can be (2)_____________ in many ways. More usually only the hard part of (3)_________ remains. The original is (4)_____________ by mineral substances. The fossil (5) _____________ the original cellular structure but in a different material. This process is called (6) ____________. We study fossils for a number of reasons. Perhaps the most common is to understand the life of the (7) _____________. We can appreciate the life of the world (8)____________, if we know what has preceded it.
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today, retains, petrifaction, past, replaced, fossil, preserved, organisms.
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