SAT阅读试题:SAT Reading Comprehension Test 7

    That large animals require a luxuriant vegetation, has
    been a general assumption which has passed from
    one work to another; but I do not hesitate to say that
    it is completely false, and that it has vitiated the
5   reasoning of geologists on some points of great
    interest in the ancient history of the world. The
    prejudice has probably been derived from India, and
    the Indian islands, where troops of elephants, noble
    forests, and impenetrable jungles, are associated
10  together in every one's mind. If, however, we refer to
    any work of travels through the southern parts of
    Africa, we shall find allusions in almost every page
    either to the desert character of the country, or to the
    numbers of large animals inhabiting it. The same
15  thing is rendered evident by the many engravings
    which have been published of various parts of the
    interior.