Reading Test 10
Dedications : Read the following passages and then choose the best answer for each question.
In 355 B.C.in an ancient Greece. the great teacher Plato told a story about a
place called Atlantis. Plato described Atlantis as a continent in the Atlantic Ocean. He said it had been the home of a powerful people who were destroyed when the continent was suddenly swallowed by the sea.
Ever since Plato's time, people have wondered if the story about Atlantis was really true. Was there ever such a place as Atantis? During the Middle Ages, many people believed in the legend of Atlantis. Some men even made voyages to find the lost continent. Later, most people believed Atlantis to be just a myth. Scientists could find no evidence to show that such a place had ever existed.
Ideas change in time, however, for now some scientists think that Atlantis may have been real place. A Greek professor has offered a new theory. He says that Atlantis was not a continent in the Atlantic Ocean but an island called Thera in the Aegean Sea. The professor says that 3,500 years ago much of thera collapsed into the sea when a volcano erupted. He thinks that before the explosion thera had been the home of a people called Minoans. The Minoans were sea traders who traveled around the Aegean Sea from to 1250 B.C.