Galapagos Island arc in the pacific ocean off the  western  coast of South America, They are a rocky. lonely spot, but they are also one of the most unusual place in the world. One reason is that they are the home of' of the last giant tortoises left on earth.  

Weighing hundreds of ponds. these tortoises, or land turtles. wander slowly around the rocks and sand of the  island. Strangely, each of these island own particular kinds of tortoise there are seven different kinds of' tortoise on the eight Island. each kind being slightly different from the  other. Hundreds of years ago. thousands of tortoises wandered aroud these Island. However, all that changed when people started landing there. When people arrived first arrived in 1535, their ships had no refrigerators. This meant that fresh food was always a problem for the sailors on board. The gaint tortoises provided a solution to this problem,

   Ships would anchor off the Island. and crews would row ashore and seize as many tortoises as they could. The tortoises were completely helpless once on their backs, so they could only lie the until used foc soups and slews. Ahnost 100,000 torlojscs were carried off on this way

a) Why does author call the Galapagos Island, an unusual places?

b) How could crew seize tortoises?

 c) Why did they catch the tortoises?

d) was there a problems of fresh food?

e) Find the meaning of the word "team" from paragraph