Rewrite these sentences in the preterite.
1. Mi padre oye el grito (the yell) del niño.
2. Yo oigo las noticias (news) malas.
3. Yo leo el libro The Hobbit y me gusta mucho.
4. ¿Lees mucho en la clase de literature?
5. Nosotros leemos un poema en la clase de inglés.
6. ¿No leen nada ustedes?
7. Ellos oyen que el terremoto es un desastre.
8. No las oigo.

Some organisms have a large geographic range. for example, the norway rat lives on every continent except antarctica. a population of norway rats is the number of rats in one particular area. do you think it’s scientifically possible for a population of norway rats in north america to carry different genetic mutations than a population of norway rats in africa? do you think it’s possible that they carry some of the same mutations? what types of information can scientists learn by studying the genomes of these two populations of rats?