English Comprehension No.1
Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than of making fire he had to preserve it, and whenever he went on the 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 Amy has had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibred 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 seashells, have persisted in the identical form up to quite recent times.
Question: Primitive man’s most important use for the fire was
Answer: To provide warmth
Answer: To cook food
Answer: To provide light
Answer: Both A and B
Ans:D
Question: The firebrand was used to
Answer: Prevent accidents
Answer: Provide light
Answer: Scare animals
Answer: Save labor
Ans: B
Question: By ‘primary’ the author means
Answer: Primitive
Answer: Fundamental
Answer: Elemental
Answer: Essential
Ans:D
Question: Lamps probably developed through mere
Answer: Hazard
Answer: Fate
Answer: Chance
Answer: Planning
Ans:C
Question: Early lamps were made by
Answer: Probably developed by accident
Answer: Letting a reed soak the tat
Answer: Putting the fat in a shell and lighting id
Answer: Floating a reed in the sea-shell
Ans: A