RSUT English Language 2015/2016 Past Questions

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Question 1
```Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 1 - 5 that follow it.
Development in electronic science has transferred the art of record keeping in the modern age. Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people's mind. It depended very much on the retentive power of the human memory. This was extremely dangerous as people either forgot events wholly or in pair, or deliberately falsified details of suit of various interests. Intermediates arguments were thus the order of the day. Even writing which replaced mental recording was not entirely free from those shortcomings untruth could be written as true records either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however, these dangers have been largely overcome. Recordings on audio and video cassettes now show not only what happened, but also who did on said what including how and when.```
The author believes that electronic recording is
  • A.superior only to mental recording
  • B.inferior to both mental recording and writing
  • C.superior to both mental recording and writing
  • D.inferior to only writing
Objective
Question 2
```Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 1 - 5 that follow it.
Development in electronic science has transferred the art of record keeping in the modern age. Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people's mind. It depended very much on the retentive power of the human memory. This was extremely dangerous as people either forgot events wholly or in pair, or deliberately falsified details of suit of various interests. Intermediates arguments were thus the order of the day. Even writing which replaced mental recording was not entirely free from those shortcomings untruth could be written as true records either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however, these dangers have been largely overcome. Recordings on audio and video cassettes now show not only what happened, but also who did on said what including how and when.```
The writer believes that the art of record keeping has
  • A.improved over the years
  • B.encouraged human memory
  • C.changed human memory
  • D.overcome all the problems acting against it
Objective
Question 3
```Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 1 - 5 that follow it.
Development in electronic science has transferred the art of record keeping in the modern age. Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people's mind. It depended very much on the retentive power of the human memory. This was extremely dangerous as people either forgot events wholly or in pair, or deliberately falsified details of suit of various interests. Intermediates arguments were thus the order of the day. Even writing which replaced mental recording was not entirely free from those shortcomings untruth could be written as true records either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however, these dangers have been largely overcome. Recordings on audio and video cassettes now show not only what happened, but also who did on said what including how and when.```
How many stages of development that the writer mention while discussing the art of record keeping
  • A.two
  • B.three
  • C.four
  • D.five
Objective
Question 4
```Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 1 - 5 that follow it.
Development in electronic science has transferred the art of record keeping in the modern age. Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people's mind. It depended very much on the retentive power of the human memory. This was extremely dangerous as people either forgot events wholly or in pair, or deliberately falsified details of suit of various interests. Intermediates arguments were thus the order of the day. Even writing which replaced mental recording was not entirely free from those shortcomings untruth could be written as true records either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however, these dangers have been largely overcome. Recordings on audio and video cassettes now show not only what happened, but also who did on said what including how and when.```
According to the author, human memory is unreliable because people
  • A.the can forget what they said
  • B.forget events or tell lies
  • C.do not always know when events happen
  • D.do not always know who did what and when
Objective
Question 5
```Read the passage below carefully and answer questions 1 - 5 that follow it.
Development in electronic science has transferred the art of record keeping in the modern age. Traditionally, records of events were kept only in people's mind. It depended very much on the retentive power of the human memory. This was extremely dangerous as people either forgot events wholly or in pair, or deliberately falsified details of suit of various interests. Intermediates arguments were thus the order of the day. Even writing which replaced mental recording was not entirely free from those shortcomings untruth could be written as true records either willingly or inadvertently. With the advent of the electronic memory, however, these dangers have been largely overcome. Recordings on audio and video cassettes now show not only what happened, but also who did on said what including how and when.```
From the passage, we gather that writing is almost
  • A.as unreliable as human memory
  • B.as reliable as electronic memory
  • C.more reliable than electronic recording
  • D.not to be compared to any other recording system
Objective