DELSU English Language 2010/2011 Past Questions

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Question 12
Read the passage below and answer the question that follow:
You should that the common cold should be easy enough to stud, but it is not so easy as it looks. colds ofter seem to spread from one person to another, so it is often assumed that the cold must be infectious, but there are some puzzling observations which do not fit in with this theory, an investigator in Holland examined some eight thousand volunteers from different areas and came to the conclusion that in each group the colds all appeared at the same time-transfer of infection from case to case could not account for that. Yet at the common cold research institute in Salisbury the infection theory has been tested out, two series of about two hundred people each were inoculated one with salt water and the other with secretions from known cold victims. only one of the salt-water group got a cold compared with seventy three in the other group. In the British Medical Journal, there was a report of a meeting the common cold-fact and fancy' at which one of the speakers reported a study of colds made in Cirencester over the last five years. three hundred and fifty volunteers had kept diary records of their colds and on an average each had seven every year, with an annual morbidity of seventy days. so, nearly one-fifth of our lives is spent in more less misery coughing and sneezing. Some widely held beliefs about the common cold have turned out not to be true, it seems that old people are just as liable to colds as the young. Sailors inisolated weather ships have just as many colds while on board and not in contact with the outside world as when on shore.
Which of the following statements can be implied from the passage?
  • A.people catch colds equally in warm and cold weather
  • B.people catch more colds in water
  • C.people catch more colds in warm weather
  • D.the origin of colds is inconclusive
Objective
Question 13
Read the passage below and answer the question that follow:
You should that the common cold should be easy enough to stud, but it is not so easy as it looks. colds ofter seem to spread from one person to another, so it is often assumed that the cold must be infectious, but there are some puzzling observations which do not fit in with this theory, an investigator in Holland examined some eight thousand volunteers from different areas and came to the conclusion that in each group the colds all appeared at the same time-transfer of infection from case to case could not account for that. Yet at the common cold research institute in Salisbury the infection theory has been tested out, two series of about two hundred people each were inoculated one with salt water and the other with secretions from known cold victims. only one of the salt-water group got a cold compared with seventy three in the other group. In the British Medical Journal, there was a report of a meeting the common cold-fact and fancy' at which one of the speakers reported a study of colds made in Cirencester over the last five years. three hundred and fifty volunteers had kept diary records of their colds and on an average each had seven every year, with an annual morbidity of seventy days. so, nearly one-fifth of our lives is spent in more less misery coughing and sneezing. Some widely held beliefs about the common cold have turned out not to be true, it seems that old people are just as liable to colds as the young. Sailors inisolated weather ships have just as many colds while on board and not in contact with the outside world as when on shore.
According to the writer, some widely held lies about the common colds are
  • A.inconclusive
  • B.fallacious
  • C.inevitable
  • D.societal
Objective
Question 14
Read the passage below and answer the question that follow:
You should that the common cold should be easy enough to stud, but it is not so easy as it looks. colds ofter seem to spread from one person to another, so it is often assumed that the cold must be infectious, but there are some puzzling observations which do not fit in with this theory, an investigator in Holland examined some eight thousand volunteers from different areas and came to the conclusion that in each group the colds all appeared at the same time-transfer of infection from case to case could not account for that. Yet at the common cold research institute in Salisbury the infection theory has been tested out, two series of about two hundred people each were inoculated one with salt water and the other with secretions from known cold victims. only one of the salt-water group got a cold compared with seventy three in the other group. In the British Medical Journal, there was a report of a meeting the common cold-fact and fancy' at which one of the speakers reported a study of colds made in Cirencester over the last five years. three hundred and fifty volunteers had kept diary records of their colds and on an average each had seven every year, with an annual morbidity of seventy days. so, nearly one-fifth of our lives is spent in more less misery coughing and sneezing. Some widely held beliefs about the common cold have turned out not to be true, it seems that old people are just as liable to colds as the young. Sailors inisolated weather ships have just as many colds while on board and not in contact with the outside world as when on shore.
Read the passage below and answer the question that follow:
You should that the common cold should be easy enough to stud, but it is not so easy as it looks. colds ofter seem to spread from one person to another, so it is often assumed that the cold must be infectious, but there are some puzzling observations which do not fit in with this theory, an investigator in Holland examined some eight thousand volunteers from different areas and came to the conclusion that in each group the colds all appeared at the same time-transfer of infection from case to case could not account for that. Yet at the common cold research institute in Salisbury the infection theory has been tested out, two series of about two hundred people each were inoculated one with salt water and the other with secretions from known cold victims. only one of the salt-water group got a cold compared with seventy three in the other group. In the British Medical Journal, there was a report of a meeting the common cold-fact and fancy' at which one of the speakers reported a study of colds made in Cirencester over the last five years. three hundred and fifty volunteers had kept diary records of their colds and on an average each had seven every year, with an annual morbidity of seventy days. so, nearly one-fifth of our lives is spent in more less misery coughing and sneezing. Some widely held beliefs about the common cold have turned out not to be true, it seems that old people are just as liable to colds as the young. Sailors inisolated weather ships have just as many colds while on board and not in contact with the outside world as when on shore.
  • A.the British Medical Journal
  • B.personal diaries
  • C.birthday rates
  • D.temperature recordings
Objective
Question 15
Read the passage below and answer the question that follow:
You should that the common cold should be easy enough to stud, but it is not so easy as it looks. colds ofter seem to spread from one person to another, so it is often assumed that the cold must be infectious, but there are some puzzling observations which do not fit in with this theory, an investigator in Holland examined some eight thousand volunteers from different areas and came to the conclusion that in each group the colds all appeared at the same time-transfer of infection from case to case could not account for that. Yet at the common cold research institute in Salisbury the infection theory has been tested out, two series of about two hundred people each were inoculated one with salt water and the other with secretions from known cold victims. only one of the salt-water group got a cold compared with seventy three in the other group. In the British Medical Journal, there was a report of a meeting the common cold-fact and fancy' at which one of the speakers reported a study of colds made in Cirencester over the last five years. three hundred and fifty volunteers had kept diary records of their colds and on an average each had seven every year, with an annual morbidity of seventy days. so, nearly one-fifth of our lives is spent in more less misery coughing and sneezing. Some widely held beliefs about the common cold have turned out not to be true, it seems that old people are just as liable to colds as the young. Sailors inisolated weather ships have just as many colds while on board and not in contact with the outside world as when on shore.
A rare disease can be more easily dealt with than the common cold because
  • A.medical experts are fed up with the rampant cases of common cold
  • B.Common colds are easily not the province of the orthodox medical expert
  • C.People easily develop resistance to the common colds
  • D.adequate research exists to uncover facts about such rare disease.
Objective
Question 16
Read the passage below and answer the question that follow:
You should that the common cold should be easy enough to stud, but it is not so easy as it looks. colds ofter seem to spread from one person to another, so it is often assumed that the cold must be infectious, but there are some puzzling observations which do not fit in with this theory, an investigator in Holland examined some eight thousand volunteers from different areas and came to the conclusion that in each group the colds all appeared at the same time-transfer of infection from case to case could not account for that. Yet at the common cold research institute in Salisbury the infection theory has been tested out, two series of about two hundred people each were inoculated one with salt water and the other with secretions from known cold victims. only one of the salt-water group got a cold compared with seventy three in the other group. In the British Medical Journal, there was a report of a meeting the common cold-fact and fancy' at which one of the speakers reported a study of colds made in Cirencester over the last five years. three hundred and fifty volunteers had kept diary records of their colds and on an average each had seven every year, with an annual morbidity of seventy days. so, nearly one-fifth of our lives is spent in more less misery coughing and sneezing. Some widely held beliefs about the common cold have turned out not to be true, it seems that old people are just as liable to colds as the young. Sailors inisolated weather ships have just as many colds while on board and not in contact with the outside world as when on shore.
From the information in the passage, there is evidence
  • A.that old people are immune against the common cold
  • B.against the theory that the common cold is infectious
  • C.for the theory that common cold is indeed infectious
  • D.that medical reports are silent on facts about common colds
Objective