Tham khảo tài liệu 'preparetaiton course for the toefl ibt reading part 12', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | READING POST-TEST 30 minutes Reading Section Directions This section measures your ability to understand academic passages in English. The Reading section is divided into separately timed parts. Most questions are worth 1 point but the last question for each passage is worth more than 1 point. The directions for the last question indicate how many points you may receive. You will now begin the Reading section. In this part you will read 1 passage. You will have 30 minutes to read the passage and answer the questions. ÿ I READING POST-TEST 111 Read the passage. 30 minutes Paragraph Aquatic Schools J Many species of fish particularly smaller fish travel in schools moving in tight formations often with the precision of the most highly disciplined military unit on parade. Some move in synchronized hordes while others move in starkly geometric forms. In addition to the varieties of shapes of schools of fish there are countless varieties of schooling behaviors. Some fish coalesce into schools and then spread out in random patterns while others move into close formations at specific times such as feeding times but are more spread out at other times. Some move in schools composed of members of all age groups while others move in schools predominantly when they are young but take up a more solitary existence as they mature. Though this behavior is quite a regular familiar phenomenon there is much that is not completely known about it particularly the exact function that it serves and what mechanisms fish use to make it happen. 2 Numerous hypotheses have been proposed and tested concerning the purpose of schooling behavior in fish. Schooling certainly promotes the survival of the species but questions arise as to the way the schooling enables fish to have a better chance of surviving. Certainly the fact that fish congregate together in schools helps to ensure their survival in that schooling provides numerous types of protection for the members of the school. One form of .
