Lucy and Lucy's baby - Module 5

B2 First · Word Formation · First Expert Coursebook, Pearson Education

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.

CARE

LONG

RESEARCH

USUAL

DEVELOP

MIX

CRITICISE

SUFFICIENT

The 3.3-million-year-old remains of a human-like child were (0) ___ found in a block of sandstone in 2000 but it took over five years of (1) ___ work to free the bones. Judging from the (2) ___ of her teeth, the infant was probably about three years old when she died. According to (3) ___ scientists working in this area, these remains were (4) ___ because of their completeness and this gave them a great opportunity to study the (5) ___ of one of our distant ancestors. Earlier discoveries, such as the 3.2 million-year-old fossil of an adult female known as 'Lucy', were still regarded as highly significant but their remains were less well preserved. Since the species has a (6) ___ of ape-like and human-like qualities, scientists said that the findings told us a lot about our early ancestors. However, their conclusions came in for (7) ___ from some people. They said there was (8) ___ evidence to regard the remains as the missing link between apes and humans.

'Lucy' (1974) and 'Lucy's baby' (2006)

ORIGIN

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