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Fast reading practice Passage1 Questions: 1. What have scientists found? 2. How many years have they been preserved? 3. What does the phrase ‘striking echoes’ mean? 4. Who was the film director of Jurassic Park? High in the Dolomites of northeastern Italy, Italian researchers chipping away at rocks formed more than 200 million years ago found two miniscule mites and a fly preserved in tiny drops of amber. Highly-magnified photographs of the creatures show the mites, in particular, to be perfectly preserved. At 230 million years old, theyre about 100 million years older than the oldest pre