Cuestionario Reading

The 1_____ pre-historic Chauvet cave art in France is painted in 2_____ colours and dates back to a period around thirty thousand years ago when early humans first started to create rock art. Although various 3 _____ of this art have been found in caves in Western Europe, very few people have seen the art at Chauvet because it is located 4_____ inside an inaccessible underground cave system. Those who have seen it say that it is very impressive, showing animals 5_____ horses, rhinos and cows, and that the artwork is good enough to 6_____ modern compositions.

The first scientists to 7_____ the Chauvet paintings missed some other important 8_____ however. The walls of the cave are also marked with a series of lines and symbols, that were initially 9_____ as insignificant. But recent research has suggested that these marks may represent humankind’s first steps towards the development of writing, which is 10_____ people to rethink their ideas about when written communication first started.