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Q.1-5. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before he discovered less laborious way of making fire, he had to preserve it, and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. His discovery that the firebrand, from which the torch may very well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving a flame.
Lamps, too, probably developed by accident. Early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from a roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. Such lamps which were made of hollowed stones or sea shells, have persisted in identical form up to quiet recent times.
Q.1. Primitive man’s most important use for fire was-
(A) to provide warmth
(B) to cook food
(C) to provide light
(D) both (A) and (B)
Q.2. The firebrand was used to-
(A) prevent accidents
(B) provide light
(C) scare animals
(D) save labour
Q.3. By ‘primary’ the author means-
(A) primitive
(B) fundamental
(C) elemental
(D) essential
Q.4. Lamps probably developed through mere-
(A) hazard
(B) fate
(C) chance
(D) planning
Q.5. Early lamps were made by-
(A) using reed as a wick in the fat
(B) letting a reed soak the fat
(C) putting the fat in a shell and lightening it
(D) floating a reed in the sea-shell
Q.6-10. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
The last half of my life has been lived in one of those painful epochs of human history during which the world is getting worse, and past victories which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. When I was young, Victorian optimism was taken for granted. It was though that freedom and prosperity would speed gradually throughout the world by an orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice would continually diminish. Hardly anyone was haunted by the fear of great wars. Hardly anyone thought of the nineteenth century as a brief interlude between past and future barbarism.
Q.6. The author feels sad about the later part of his life because.
(A) the world had not become prosperous
(B) he was nostalgic about his childhood
(C) the world was painfully disturbed during that period of time
(D) the author had not won any further victories
Q.7. The victories of the past-
(A) filled men with a sense of pessimism
(B) proved to be temporary events
(C) ended cruelty, tyranny and injustice
(D) brought permanent peace and security
Q.8. The word ‘definitive’ as used in the passage means-
(A) incomplete
(B) defined
(C) temporary
(D) final
Q.9. During the Victorian age people believed that-
(A) there would be unlimited freedom
(B) strife would increase
(C) peace would prevail and happiness would engulf the whole world
(D) wars would be fought on a bigger scale
Q.10. A brief interlude between past and future barbarism can be interpreted as-
(A) a dramatic performance during wars
(B) an interval between cruel wars
(C) a short space of time between two great events
(D) a short period of time between past and future acts of savagery
ANSWERS:
Q1.(D)
Q2.(B)
Q3.(D)
Q4.(C)
Q5.(A)
Q6.(C)
Q7.(B)
Q8.(8)
Q9.(C)
Q10.(D)
