English Language Quiz (Comprehension)- 24-February -2022

Directions (1-5) : You have a brief passage with 5 questions . Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The Stone Age was a period of history which began in approximately 2 million B.C. and lasted until 3000 B.C. Its name was derived from the stone tools and weapons that modern scientists discovered. This period was divided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Ages. During the first period (2 million to 8000 B.C.) the first hatchet and the use of fire for heating and cooking were developed. As a result of the Ice Age, which evolved about 1 million years in the Paleolithic Age, people were forced to seek shelter in caves, wear clothing and develop new tools. During the Mesolithic Age (8000 to 6000 B.C.) people made crude pottery and the first fish hooks, took dogs for hunting, and developed a bow and arrow, which was used until the fourteenth century A.D. The Neolithic Age (6000 to 3000 B.C.) saw humankind domesticating sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle, becoming less nomadic than in the previous Ages, establishing permanent settlements and creating governments.

1. The Stone Age was divided into _______ periods.
(a) five
(b) four
(c) three
(d) six

2. What developed first in the Paleolithic period?
(a) The bow and arrow.
(b) Pottery.
(c) The first hatchet.
(d) The fish hook.

3. For how many years did Mesolithic Age exist?
(a) 2000
(b) 3000
(c) 4000
(d) 5000

4. Which period lasted longest?
(a) Paleolithic
(b) Ice Age
(c) Mesolithic
(d) Neolithic

5. When did people create governments ?
(a) 8000 – 6000 B.C..
(b) 2 million to 8000 B.C..
(c) 6000 to 3000 B.C..
(d) 2 million to 1 million B.C..

Directions (6-10) : You have a brief passage with 5 question . Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

In the world have we made health an end in itself ? We have forgotten that health is really a means to enable a person to do his work and do it well. A lot of modern medicine is concerned with promotion of good health. Many patients as well as many physicians pay very little attention to health; but very much attention to health makes some people imagine that they are ill. Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspaper, the health articles in popular magazines and the popularity of the television programme and all those books on medicine. We talk about health all the time. Yet, for the most only result is more people are with imaginary illnesses. The healthy man should not be wasting any time talking about health, he should be using health for work, the work he does and the work that good health makes possible.

6. Modern medicine is primarily concerned with
(a) promotion of good health.
(b) people suffering from imaginary illnesses.
(c) people suffering from real illnesses.
(d) increased efficiency in work

7. A healthy man should be concerned with
(a) his work which good health makes possible.
(b) looking after his health.
(c) his health which makes work possible.
(d) talking about health.

8. Talking about health all the time makes people
(a) always suffer from imaginary illnesses.
(b) sometimes suffer from imaginary illnesses.
(c) rarely suffer from imaginary illnesses.
(d) often suffer from imaginary illnesses.

9. The passage suggests that
(a) health is an end in itself.
(b) health is a blessing.
(c) health is only a means to an end.
(d) we should not talk about health.

10. The passage tells us
(a) how medicines should be manufactured.
(b) what a healthy man should or should not do.
(c) what the television progra-mmes should be about.
(d) how best to imagine illnesses.


Answers:

Ans -1. (c)
2. (c)

3. (a)

4. (a)

5. (c)

6(a)

7. (a) 

8 (d)

9. (a)

10. (b)


 

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