Question 4
Read the passage I carefully and answer the questions that follow.

PASSAGE 1

Primitive ma was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source off light. before he discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it and whenever he is sent on a journey, he carried a firebrand with him, His discovery that the firebrand, from which the touch may well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving a flame. Lamps, too, probably developed by incident. Early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from 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 sea Shells, have persisted in identical form up to quite recent times.

According to the passage, the torch probably developed from

  • A.firebrand
  • B.twig
  • C.lamp
  • D.fibre
Objective

Question details

Exam body
UNIBEN
Subject
English Language
Year
2006/2007
Question no.
#4
Type
Objective

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