UNIBEN English Language 2007/2008 Past Questions

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Question 1
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:
When we survey all know human societies, we find everywhere a form of family, some set of permanent arrangement by which males assist females in caring for children while they were young.
The distinctively human aspect of the enterprise lies not in the protection the male affords the females and the young - this we share with primates.
Nor does it lie in the lordly possessiveness of the male over the females for whose favour he contends with other males this too we share with the primates. Its distinctiveness lies instead in the nurturing behaviour of the male who among human beings everywhere help provide food for women and children.
Among our structurally closest analogues - the primates - the male does not feed the female. he may fight to protect her or to possess her, but he does not nurture her.
She has to fend for herself. Somewhere at the dawn of human history some social invention was made under which males started nurturing and their young. In every known human society, everywhere in the world, the young male learns that he is grown up, one of the things which he must do in order to be a full member of society is to provide food for some females and her young.
Even in the simple societies a large number of men may escape burden of feeding females and the young by entering monasteries - and feeding each other - or by entering some profession that their society will classify as giving them a right to be fed, like the army and the navy, or the Buddhist order of Burma. But in spite of such exceptions , every known uman society rests firmly on the learned nurturing behaviour of men.
man differs from other animals because
  • A.he forms a family
  • B.he cares for children
  • C.he cares for women and children and provides food for women
  • D.he provides food for women
Objective
Question 2
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:
When we survey all know human societies, we find everywhere a form of family, some set of permanent arrangement by which males assist females in caring for children while they were young.
The distinctively human aspect of the enterprise lies not in the protection the male affords the females and the young - this we share with primates.
Nor does it lie in the lordly possessiveness of the male over the females for whose favour he contends with other males this too we share with the primates. Its distinctiveness lies instead in the nurturing behaviour of the male who among human beings everywhere help provide food for women and children.
Among our structurally closest analogues - the primates - the male does not feed the female. he may fight to protect her or to possess her, but he does not nurture her.
She has to fend for herself. Somewhere at the dawn of human history some social invention was made under which males started nurturing and their young. In every known human society, everywhere in the world, the young male learns that he is grown up, one of the things which he must do in order to be a full member of society is to provide food for some females and her young.
Even in the simple societies a large number of men may escape burden of feeding females and the young by entering monasteries - and feeding each other - or by entering some profession that their society will classify as giving them a right to be fed, like the army and the navy, or the Buddhist order of Burma. But in spite of such exceptions , every known uman society rests firmly on the learned nurturing behaviour of men.
the lordly possessiveness of the male over the female means that the male
  • A.shows mastery over the female
  • B.he cares for the children
  • C.is most aggressive towards the female
  • D.claims right over the female
Objective
Question 3
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:
When we survey all know human societies, we find everywhere a form of family, some set of permanent arrangement by which males assist females in caring for children while they were young.
The distinctively human aspect of the enterprise lies not in the protection the male affords the females and the young - this we share with primates.
Nor does it lie in the lordly possessiveness of the male over the females for whose favour he contends with other males this too we share with the primates. Its distinctiveness lies instead in the nurturing behaviour of the male who among human beings everywhere help provide food for women and children.
Among our structurally closest analogues - the primates - the male does not feed the female. he may fight to protect her or to possess her, but he does not nurture her.
She has to fend for herself. Somewhere at the dawn of human history some social invention was made under which males started nurturing and their young. In every known human society, everywhere in the world, the young male learns that he is grown up, one of the things which he must do in order to be a full member of society is to provide food for some females and her young.
Even in the simple societies a large number of men may escape burden of feeding females and the young by entering monasteries - and feeding each other - or by entering some profession that their society will classify as giving them a right to be fed, like the army and the navy, or the Buddhist order of Burma. But in spite of such exceptions , every known uman society rests firmly on the learned nurturing behaviour of men.
'somewhere at the dawn of history' refers to
  • A.the beginning of creation
  • B.the creating of man
  • C.the time when man was yet a monkey
  • D.the beginning of civilization
Objective
Question 4
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:
When we survey all know human societies, we find everywhere a form of family, some set of permanent arrangement by which males assist females in caring for children while they were young.
The distinctively human aspect of the enterprise lies not in the protection the male affords the females and the young - this we share with primates.
Nor does it lie in the lordly possessiveness of the male over the females for whose favour he contends with other males this too we share with the primates. Its distinctiveness lies instead in the nurturing behaviour of the male who among human beings everywhere help provide food for women and children.
Among our structurally closest analogues - the primates - the male does not feed the female. he may fight to protect her or to possess her, but he does not nurture her.
She has to fend for herself. Somewhere at the dawn of human history some social invention was made under which males started nurturing and their young. In every known human society, everywhere in the world, the young male learns that he is grown up, one of the things which he must do in order to be a full member of society is to provide food for some females and her young.
Even in the simple societies a large number of men may escape burden of feeding females and the young by entering monasteries - and feeding each other - or by entering some profession that their society will classify as giving them a right to be fed, like the army and the navy, or the Buddhist order of Burma. But in spite of such exceptions , every known uman society rests firmly on the learned nurturing behaviour of men.
man takes it upon himself to feed the females except when
  • A.he takes up the gun to fight
  • B.he becomes religious
  • C.joins a religion
  • D.enters some profession
Objective
Question 5
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:
When we survey all know human societies, we find everywhere a form of family, some set of permanent arrangement by which males assist females in caring for children while they were young.
The distinctively human aspect of the enterprise lies not in the protection the male affords the females and the young - this we share with primates.
Nor does it lie in the lordly possessiveness of the male over the females for whose favour he contends with other males this too we share with the primates. Its distinctiveness lies instead in the nurturing behaviour of the male who among human beings everywhere help provide food for women and children.
Among our structurally closest analogues - the primates - the male does not feed the female. he may fight to protect her or to possess her, but he does not nurture her.
She has to fend for herself. Somewhere at the dawn of human history some social invention was made under which males started nurturing and their young. In every known human society, everywhere in the world, the young male learns that he is grown up, one of the things which he must do in order to be a full member of society is to provide food for some females and her young.
Even in the simple societies a large number of men may escape burden of feeding females and the young by entering monasteries - and feeding each other - or by entering some profession that their society will classify as giving them a right to be fed, like the army and the navy, or the Buddhist order of Burma. But in spite of such exceptions , every known uman society rests firmly on the learned nurturing behaviour of men.
according to the passage a common feature of all human communities is
  • A.the family
  • B.caring mothers
  • C.aggressiveness fathers
  • D.nurtured woman and children
Objective
Question 6
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
From ancient times, people commonly believed that life arose repeatedly by spontaneous generation from non-living materials in addition to parental reproduction. For example frogs appeared to rise from damp earth, mice from putrefied matter, insects from dew and maggots from decaying meat. Warmth, moisture, sunlight and even starlight often were mentioned as factors that encourage spontaneous generation of living organism. Among the account of early efforts to synthesize organisms in the laboratory is a recipe for making mice given by the Belgian (1648). 'if you press underwear soiled with sweat together with some wheat in an pen jar, after 21 days the odour changes and it ferment.... changes the wheat into mice. but what is more remarkable is that mice which came out of the wheat and the underwear were not small mice not even miniature adults or aborted mice but adult mice emerged'.
In 1861, the great French scientist Louis Pasteur convinced science that living organism cannot arise spontaneously from non-living matter. In his famous experiments, Pasteur introduced fermentable materials into a flask with along S-shaped that was open to the air. The flask its contents were boiled fro a long time to kill any micro organisms that might be present. Afterwards the flask was cooled and left undisturbed. No fermentation occurred because all organism that entered the open end were deposited in the open neck and did not reach the fermentation material.
When the neck of the flask was removed, microorganisms in the air promptly entered the fermentable material and proliferated. Pasteur concluded that life could not originate in the absence of previously existing organisms and their reproductive elements as eggs and spores. Announcing his results to the French academy, Pasteur proclaimed, 'never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation arise from this moral blow. All living organisms share a common ancestor, most likely a population of colonial micro-organism that lived almost four billion year ago. This common ancestry was a product of a long period of prebiotic assembly by non-living things matter, including organic molecules and water, to form self replicating units. all living organisms retain a fundamental chemical composition inherited from their ancient common ancestor
throughout the passage the words spontaneously can best be taken to means
  • A.without reproductive elements
  • B.in a medium
  • C.unthinking
  • D.freed spirited
Objective
Question 7
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
From ancient times, people commonly believed that life arose repeatedly by spontaneous generation from non-living materials in addition to parental reproduction. For example frogs appeared to rise from damp earth, mice from putrefied matter, insects from dew and maggots from decaying meat. Warmth, moisture, sunlight and even starlight often were mentioned as factors that encourage spontaneous generation of living organism. Among the account of early efforts to synthesize organisms in the laboratory is a recipe for making mice given by the Belgian (1648). 'if you press underwear soiled with sweat together with some wheat in an pen jar, after 21 days the odour changes and it ferment.... changes the wheat into mice. but what is more remarkable is that mice which came out of the wheat and the underwear were not small mice not even miniature adults or aborted mice but adult mice emerged'.
In 1861, the great French scientist Louis Pasteur convinced science that living organism cannot arise spontaneously from non-living matter. In his famous experiments, Pasteur introduced fermentable materials into a flask with along S-shaped that was open to the air. The flask its contents were boiled fro a long time to kill any micro organisms that might be present. Afterwards the flask was cooled and left undisturbed. No fermentation occurred because all organism that entered the open end were deposited in the open neck and did not reach the fermentation material.
When the neck of the flask was removed, microorganisms in the air promptly entered the fermentable material and proliferated. Pasteur concluded that life could not originate in the absence of previously existing organisms and their reproductive elements as eggs and spores. Announcing his results to the French academy, Pasteur proclaimed, 'never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation arise from this moral blow. All living organisms share a common ancestor, most likely a population of colonial micro-organism that lived almost four billion year ago. This common ancestry was a product of a long period of prebiotic assembly by non-living things matter, including organic molecules and water, to form self replicating units. all living organisms retain a fundamental chemical composition inherited from their ancient common ancestor
in Pasteur's experiment, why was the neck of the flask removed?
  • A.to allow air to passage
  • B.to provide access to micro-organism
  • C.to kill any micro-organism that might be present
  • D.to permit the heating of the flask
Objective
Question 8
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
From ancient times, people commonly believed that life arose repeatedly by spontaneous generation from non-living materials in addition to parental reproduction. For example frogs appeared to rise from damp earth, mice from putrefied matter, insects from dew and maggots from decaying meat. Warmth, moisture, sunlight and even starlight often were mentioned as factors that encourage spontaneous generation of living organism. Among the account of early efforts to synthesize organisms in the laboratory is a recipe for making mice given by the Belgian (1648). 'if you press underwear soiled with sweat together with some wheat in an pen jar, after 21 days the odour changes and it ferment.... changes the wheat into mice. but what is more remarkable is that mice which came out of the wheat and the underwear were not small mice not even miniature adults or aborted mice but adult mice emerged'.
In 1861, the great French scientist Louis Pasteur convinced science that living organism cannot arise spontaneously from non-living matter. In his famous experiments, Pasteur introduced fermentable materials into a flask with along S-shaped that was open to the air. The flask its contents were boiled fro a long time to kill any micro organisms that might be present. Afterwards the flask was cooled and left undisturbed. No fermentation occurred because all organism that entered the open end were deposited in the open neck and did not reach the fermentation material.
When the neck of the flask was removed, microorganisms in the air promptly entered the fermentable material and proliferated. Pasteur concluded that life could not originate in the absence of previously existing organisms and their reproductive elements as eggs and spores. Announcing his results to the French academy, Pasteur proclaimed, 'never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation arise from this moral blow. All living organisms share a common ancestor, most likely a population of colonial micro-organism that lived almost four billion year ago. This common ancestry was a product of a long period of prebiotic assembly by non-living things matter, including organic molecules and water, to form self replicating units. all living organisms retain a fundamental chemical composition inherited from their ancient common ancestor
in the third paragraph the word 'moral' most nearly means
  • A.human
  • B.impermanent
  • C.fatal
  • D.earthly
Objective
Question 9
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
From ancient times, people commonly believed that life arose repeatedly by spontaneous generation from non-living materials in addition to parental reproduction. For example frogs appeared to rise from damp earth, mice from putrefied matter, insects from dew and maggots from decaying meat. Warmth, moisture, sunlight and even starlight often were mentioned as factors that encourage spontaneous generation of living organism. Among the account of early efforts to synthesize organisms in the laboratory is a recipe for making mice given by the Belgian (1648). 'if you press underwear soiled with sweat together with some wheat in an pen jar, after 21 days the odour changes and it ferment.... changes the wheat into mice. but what is more remarkable is that mice which came out of the wheat and the underwear were not small mice not even miniature adults or aborted mice but adult mice emerged'.
In 1861, the great French scientist Louis Pasteur convinced science that living organism cannot arise spontaneously from non-living matter. In his famous experiments, Pasteur introduced fermentable materials into a flask with along S-shaped that was open to the air. The flask its contents were boiled fro a long time to kill any micro organisms that might be present. Afterwards the flask was cooled and left undisturbed. No fermentation occurred because all organism that entered the open end were deposited in the open neck and did not reach the fermentation material.
When the neck of the flask was removed, microorganisms in the air promptly entered the fermentable material and proliferated. Pasteur concluded that life could not originate in the absence of previously existing organisms and their reproductive elements as eggs and spores. Announcing his results to the French academy, Pasteur proclaimed, 'never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation arise from this moral blow. All living organisms share a common ancestor, most likely a population of colonial micro-organism that lived almost four billion year ago. This common ancestry was a product of a long period of prebiotic assembly by non-living things matter, including organic molecules and water, to form self replicating units. all living organisms retain a fundamental chemical composition inherited from their ancient common ancestor
the expression 'when the neck of the flask was removed' found in the third paragraph can be described as
  • A.adverbial clause of time
  • B.adjectival clause
  • C.noun clause
  • D.adverbial phrase of time
Objective
Question 10
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
From ancient times, people commonly believed that life arose repeatedly by spontaneous generation from non-living materials in addition to parental reproduction. For example frogs appeared to rise from damp earth, mice from putrefied matter, insects from dew and maggots from decaying meat. Warmth, moisture, sunlight and even starlight often were mentioned as factors that encourage spontaneous generation of living organism. Among the account of early efforts to synthesize organisms in the laboratory is a recipe for making mice given by the Belgian (1648). 'if you press underwear soiled with sweat together with some wheat in an pen jar, after 21 days the odour changes and it ferment.... changes the wheat into mice. but what is more remarkable is that mice which came out of the wheat and the underwear were not small mice not even miniature adults or aborted mice but adult mice emerged'.
In 1861, the great French scientist Louis Pasteur convinced science that living organism cannot arise spontaneously from non-living matter. In his famous experiments, Pasteur introduced fermentable materials into a flask with along S-shaped that was open to the air. The flask its contents were boiled fro a long time to kill any micro organisms that might be present. Afterwards the flask was cooled and left undisturbed. No fermentation occurred because all organism that entered the open end were deposited in the open neck and did not reach the fermentation material.
When the neck of the flask was removed, microorganisms in the air promptly entered the fermentable material and proliferated. Pasteur concluded that life could not originate in the absence of previously existing organisms and their reproductive elements as eggs and spores. Announcing his results to the French academy, Pasteur proclaimed, 'never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation arise from this moral blow. All living organisms share a common ancestor, most likely a population of colonial micro-organism that lived almost four billion year ago. This common ancestry was a product of a long period of prebiotic assembly by non-living things matter, including organic molecules and water, to form self replicating units. all living organisms retain a fundamental chemical composition inherited from their ancient common ancestor
in what sense is the use of the word 'water' in the last paragraph ironic?
  • A.it is a medium in which many organism thrive
  • B.it has a relatively low boiling point
  • C.Pasteur did not mention it specifically in his description of his experiment
  • D.it was not one of the ingredients in Helmont's recipe
Objective
Question 11
Read the following passage and choose the best option that fills the corresponding gap in the text.
By the 28th week,that is the end of 7th 11. The foetus moves around vigorously within the 12. and its heart can be heard by the 13. Its length is 38cm (15inches) and its weight 100grams. Its body is thin, reddish and covered with 14 coating of creamy, waxy substance, which is manufactured by small in the skin. It can open its eyes and the 15. covering the pupils of the 16. has gone. If it is 17. at this stage, it can 18. but with difficulty. it can also cry 19. but 20. its legs energetically.
  • A.days
  • B.week
  • C.month
  • D.year
Objective
Question 12
Read the following passage and choose the best option that fills the corresponding gap in the text.
By the 28th week,that is the end of 7th 11. The foetus moves around vigorously within the 12. and its heart can be heard by the 13. Its length is 38cm (15inches) and its weight 100grams. Its body is thin, reddish and covered with 14 coating of creamy, waxy substance, which is manufactured by small in the skin. It can open its eyes and the 15. covering the pupils of the 16. has gone. If it is 17. at this stage, it can 18. but with difficulty. it can also cry 19. but 20. its legs energetically.
  • A.stomach
  • B.uterus
  • C.bladder
  • D.belly
Objective
Question 13
Read the following passage and choose the best option that fills the corresponding gap in the text.
By the 28th week,that is the end of 7th 11. The foetus moves around vigorously within the 12. and its heart can be heard by the 13. Its length is 38cm (15inches) and its weight 100grams. Its body is thin, reddish and covered with 14 coating of creamy, waxy substance, which is manufactured by small in the skin. It can open its eyes and the 15. covering the pupils of the 16. has gone. If it is 17. at this stage, it can 18. but with difficulty. it can also cry 19. but 20. its legs energetically.
  • A.audience
  • B.women
  • C.crowd
  • D.doctor
Objective
Question 14
Read the following passage and choose the best option that fills the corresponding gap in the text.
By the 28th week,that is the end of 7th 11. The foetus moves around vigorously within the 12. and its heart can be heard by the 13. Its length is 38cm (15inches) and its weight 100grams. Its body is thin, reddish and covered with 14 coating of creamy, waxy substance, which is manufactured by small in the skin. It can open its eyes and the 15. covering the pupils of the 16. has gone. If it is 17. at this stage, it can 18. but with difficulty. it can also cry 19. but 20. its legs energetically.
  • A.defensive
  • B.kicking
  • C.plastic
  • D.protective
Objective
Question 15
Read the following passage and choose the best option that fills the corresponding gap in the text.
By the 28th week,that is the end of 7th 11. The foetus moves around vigorously within the 12. and its heart can be heard by the 13. Its length is 38cm (15inches) and its weight 100grams. Its body is thin, reddish and covered with 14 coating of creamy, waxy substance, which is manufactured by small in the skin. It can open its eyes and the 15. covering the pupils of the 16. has gone. If it is 17. at this stage, it can 18. but with difficulty. it can also cry 19. but 20. its legs energetically.
  • A.membrane
  • B.hand
  • C.glass
  • D.rubber
Objective
Question 16
Read the following passage and choose the best option that fills the corresponding gap in the text.
By the 28th week,that is the end of 7th 11. The foetus moves around vigorously within the 12. and its heart can be heard by the 13. Its length is 38cm (15inches) and its weight 100grams. Its body is thin, reddish and covered with 14 coating of creamy, waxy substance, which is manufactured by small in the skin. It can open its eyes and the 15. covering the pupils of the 16. has gone. If it is 17. at this stage, it can 18. but with difficulty. it can also cry 19. but 20. its legs energetically.
  • A.eyes
  • B.classify
  • C.month
  • D.uterus
Objective
Question 17
Read the following passage and choose the best option that fills the corresponding gap in the text.
By the 28th week,that is the end of 7th 11. The foetus moves around vigorously within the 12. and its heart can be heard by the 13. Its length is 38cm (15inches) and its weight 100grams. Its body is thin, reddish and covered with 14 coating of creamy, waxy substance, which is manufactured by small in the skin. It can open its eyes and the 15. covering the pupils of the 16. has gone. If it is 17. at this stage, it can 18. but with difficulty. it can also cry 19. but 20. its legs energetically.
  • A.left
  • B.sent
  • C.discharged
  • D.born
Objective
Question 18
Read the following passage and choose the best option that fills the corresponding gap in the text.
By the 28th week,that is the end of 7th 11. The foetus moves around vigorously within the 12. and its heart can be heard by the 13. Its length is 38cm (15inches) and its weight 100grams. Its body is thin, reddish and covered with 14 coating of creamy, waxy substance, which is manufactured by small in the skin. It can open its eyes and the 15. covering the pupils of the 16. has gone. If it is 17. at this stage, it can 18. but with difficulty. it can also cry 19. but 20. its legs energetically.
  • A.breathe
  • B.see
  • C.hear
  • D.eat
Objective
Question 19
Read the following passage and choose the best option that fills the corresponding gap in the text.
By the 28th week,that is the end of 7th 11. The foetus moves around vigorously within the 12. and its heart can be heard by the 13. Its length is 38cm (15inches) and its weight 100grams. Its body is thin, reddish and covered with 14 coating of creamy, waxy substance, which is manufactured by small in the skin. It can open its eyes and the 15. covering the pupils of the 16. has gone. If it is 17. at this stage, it can 18. but with difficulty. it can also cry 19. but 20. its legs energetically.
  • A.angrily
  • B.weakly
  • C.loudly
  • D.strongly
Objective
Question 20
Read the following passage and choose the best option that fills the corresponding gap in the text.
By the 28th week,that is the end of 7th 11. The foetus moves around vigorously within the 12. and its heart can be heard by the 13. Its length is 38cm (15inches) and its weight 100grams. Its body is thin, reddish and covered with 14 coating of creamy, waxy substance, which is manufactured by small in the skin. It can open its eyes and the 15. covering the pupils of the 16. has gone. If it is 17. at this stage, it can 18. but with difficulty. it can also cry 19. but 20. its legs energetically.
  • A.walk
  • B.wove
  • C.wraps
Objective