Unseen @ English Comprehension 7 For GPSC, GSSSB, CTET, SSC, RRB, UPSC, IBPS, Competitive Exam

••     Unseen @ English Comprehension 7 For GPSC, GSSSB, CTET, SSC, RRB, UPSC, IBPS, Competitive Exam.


       Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before he discovered less laborious ways 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 quite 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 a reed as a wick in the fat
(B) letting a reed soak the fat
(C) putting the fat in a shell and lighting it
(D) floating a reed in the sea-shell

Q.6-10.In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and blacken the circle corresponding to the appropriate letter (A, B, C). If there is no error, blacken the circle corresponding to (D) in the Answer Sheet.

Q.6. Atul's habit of
(A)/ delaying his work has put his colleagues (B)/ in a lot of trouble (C)/ No error (D)

Q.7. It is every one's duty to
(A)/ wipe out the tear's from (B)/ the eyes of the people in distress (C)/ No error (D).

Q.8. I have seen that
(A)/ film last year, but I do not (B)/ remember its story (C) / No error(D)

Q.9. The Government has decided
(A)/ to decrease the price (B)/ for rice and wheat (C)/ No error(D).

Q.10. I was surprised
(A)/ when he told me how much (B)/ does he study everyday (C)/ No error(D)

**    ANSWERS

Q.1.(D).     Q.2.(B).     Q.3.(D).     Q.4.(C).    Q.5.(A).   

Q.6.(D).     Q.7.(B).     Q.8.(A).     Q.9.(C).    Q.10.(C)