2017-09-05
下面PTE院校小编为大家带来一篇PTE双语的阅读，来提高同学们的阅读量。
6.Gingko Biloba
6.银杏
Age: 270 million years old
年龄：2.7亿岁
The Ginkgo tree is the only living representative of the order Ginkgoales, a group of gymnosperms dating back to 270 million years ago in the Permian period. Due to geological cataclysms, only three or four species were left in the Tertiary period (65 million years ago). The extinction of the dinosaurs as potential seed dispersers of the tree's large seeds may also have influenced this decline, which is in line with the fossil records.
银杏是银杏目植物的唯一成员，属裸子植物门，最早能追溯到2亿7千万年前的二叠纪。由于地质灾害频发，只有三四个物种在第三纪(6500万年前)幸存下来。恐龙的灭绝作为银杏树种子传播的潜在媒介，有可能对这类植物的衰落产生了影响，这种推测与化石记录一致。
7.Nautilus
7.鹦鹉螺
Age: 235 million years old
年龄：2.35亿岁
Often called "living fossils," the nautilus originated in the Late Triassic period, and is a marine mollusk. The name means "sailor" in Greek. The nautilus is only found in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. They live in the deep slopes of coral reefs.
有“活化石”之称的鹦鹉螺起源于三叠纪末期，是一种海洋软体动物，在希腊语中意为“水手”。鹦鹉螺仅分布在印度太平洋区域，栖息于珊瑚礁的深坡中。
8.Horseshoe Shrimp
8.三眼恐龙虾
Age: 200 million years old
年龄：2亿岁
This little guy has the distinction of being the oldest living species on earth that has existed UNCHANGED for 200 million years. In other words, he may not have been around as long as some of the creatures above him, but today he's is still virtually indistinguishable from his 200 million year old fossil.
这个小家伙被列为地球上最古老的现存物种，生存了2亿年仍一成不变。也就是说，三眼恐龙虾存在的时间可能没有名单中前几名那么长，但和它2亿年前的化石比起来，如今它的模样几乎没什么变化。
9.Sturgeon
9.鲟鱼
Age: 200 million years old
年龄：2亿岁
Sturgeon and related paddlefish have undergone remarkably little morphological change, indicating that their evolution has been slow and earning them informal status of "living fossils." This is explained, in part, by their long inter-generation time, tolerance for wide ranges of water temperature and salinity, lack of predators due to size, and the abundance of prey items in their benthic environment.
鲟鱼和近亲白鲟鱼在形态上发生了非常细微的变化，这说明它们进化缓慢，且“活化石”的殊荣它们当之无愧。这也在一定程度上表明，鲟鱼通过漫长的进化，对水的温度和盐度的耐受范围很广。受体型大小的影响，加上底栖生物环境中食物充足，以至于它们几乎没有天敌。
10.Martialis Heureka
10.火星蚂蚁
Age: 100 million years old
年龄：1亿岁The most primitive species of living ants, the DNA of the Martialis heureka (which roughly translates to "From Mars! Wow!") has barely changed in the last 100 million years. This species was discovered in the Amazon in 2000, and generally lives its life underground.
