came to light, ------- .
A) north-eastern Brazil had never been inhabited
B) people believed that the first inhabitants of the American continents came either from Africa or
from Australia
C) it had always been assumed that the first people in the New World came from Siberia over a
bridge of ice
D) it was not suspected that the rituals of dancing and hunting went-back 12,000 years
E) this area was already attracting tourists
A recent study has confirmed that a huge flood occurred about 7000 years ago in the Black Sea. The
theory was first put forward last year by marine geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman. In their
book Noah's Flood, they claim that the great flood resulted from the last ice age, which peaked
12,000 years ago. When the poles froze, ocean levels dropped and cut off the Mediterranean from the
Black Sea which dropped 150 m. to become a lake with fertile shores. When the ice melted, the
Mediterranean rose back up and broke through what is known as the Bosphorus with a force equal to
200 Niagara Falls for a period of two years. The Black Sea rose, consuming a mile of shore a day.
Those who had settled there sailed away, spreading their stories of the flood.
286- According to the text, the poles froze during the last ice age which caused ocean levels to
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