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• Scan the story quickly.
• Read the story carefully.
• Visualize the details.
• Predict what words are used to fill in the blanks.

Fossils

"Fossils are the remains of animals and plants preserved in the earth ‘s crust. Almost all ______1_______ are founding the ______2_______ rock, where progressive bedding has covered the remains and buried them to the depths of hundreds of______3_______. The youngest fossils are more than ______4_______ and the oldest are over a ______5_______ A few fossils are made up of the complete bodies of animals, but these types of fossils are very rare. Fossils containing complete skeletons of animals are more ______6_______. However, the most ______ 7_______ fossils consist of very little or none of the material that made up the original animal or plant. Instead, the remains have completely or partially turned to ______8_______. "

Adapted from, Intermediate Academic Upgrading Science Learning Packages IAU-S 7.2