Answers for the scrambled paragraphs are under the exercises:
Fencing is probably one of the oldest games in existence.
_____ (S) Under the Germanic influence the duel spread all over Christendom.
_____ (Q) The Germanic tribes which swarmed over the Empire at the fall of Rome were perhaps the earliest people to recognize combat with swords as a means of settling questions of justice or of vindicating a grievance.
_____ (R) It sprang directly from the duel, and dueling has been extant as long as there has been war.
_____ (T) Even as early as the reign of Charlemagne it was admitted as material proof in the judgments of God.
_____ (U) In the old days there were duels between two persons, and often between two whole armies, depending on the conditions of war.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~fencing/oldweb/history/fencinghistory.html
Prehistoric people would have gazed upon herds of gazelle and other wild animals; gently flowing rivers, which attracted migrating geese and ducks; fruit and nut trees; and rippling fields of wild barley and wild wheat varieties such as emmer and einkorn.
_____ (Q) Indeed, Gobekli Tepe sits at the northern edge of the Fertile Crescent—an arc of mild climate and arable land from the Persian Gulf to present-day Lebanon, Israel, Jordan and Egypt.
_____ (R) "This area was like a paradise," says Schmidt, a member of the German Archaeological Institute.
_____ (S) Such weather and fertile soil would have attracted hunter-gatherers from Africa and the Levant.
_____ (T) This is clearly the earliest "cathedral on a hill" that archeologists have yet to find.
_____ (U) And partly because Schmidt has found no evidence that people permanently resided on the summit of Gobekli Tepe itself, he believes this was a place of worship on an unprecedented scale.
Please read this article! It's so interesting!
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html
Water enters the root and is transported up to the leaves through specialized plant cells known as xylem (pronounces zigh-lem).
_____ (Q) Cottonwood trees, for example, will lose 100 gallons of water per hour during hot desert days.
_____ (R) Land plants must guard against drying out (desiccation) and so have evolved specialized structures known as stomata to allow gas to enter and leave the leaf.
_____ (S) Carbon dioxide cannot pass through the protective waxy layer covering the leaf (cuticle), but it can enter the leaf through these openings (the stoma; plural = stomata; Greek for hole) flanked by two guard cells.
_____ (T) Unfortunately for the plant, while these gases are moving between the inside and outside of the leaf, a great deal of water is also lost.
_____ (U) Likewise, oxygen produced during photosynthesis can only pass out of the leaf through the opened stomata.
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/biobookps.html
Answers are down below:
Answers:
Fencing -----> 4,3,1,5,2 ----> 4= Q, 3=R, 1=S, 5=T, 2=U
Gobekli Tepe -----------> 2,1,3,5,4
Stomata ----->5,1,2,4,3
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