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Question 1 of 13
1. Question
Question 2: Comprehension [18 Marks]
- Common salt, the humble seasoning taken for granted at meal times, is the stuff of history. It is so vital to human survival that wars have been fought over it, empires have built on it and have collapsed without it, and civilisations have grown around it. Roman legionaries were given a salarium-a salt allowance. Later, the word came to mean a cash allowance to buy salt. From this, it was a short step to its present meaning.
- Man realised from his earliest days that he had to have salt or perish, for without it, the delicate salt and water balance in the body is upset and death occurs through dehydration. It began with Stone Age tribesmen following their cattle to salt licks-outcrops of salt rock the animals located for their own survival. The humans carried salt from the life-giving rocks back to their caves, but eventually, they discovered a more reliable source-brine salt springs. Primitive cultures developed around these springs at places such as Droitwich in England, the Moselle region of France and Saale in Germany. Over thousands of years entire forests were destroyed by man to provide wood fires for evaporating water from precious salt.
- The demand for salt even altered landscapes. Ancient people created coastal lakes when they dug up sea-soaked peat, burnt it and retrieved salt by boiling the ashes in sea water. While early Europeans were turning salt production into one of the first industries, similar operations were going on in other parts of the world. The earliest in China were near salt pans on the Yellow River. In the Jordan Valley, villages grew up in about 8000 BC by the salt laden Dead Sea, and on Mount Sodom, which is rich in salt. Over thousands of years, the development of transport enabled people to move away from the salt sources. Early Egyptians farmers, for instance, were supplied by boat with salt from swamps at the mouth of the Nile.
- The sea has always been the world’s main source of supply, and significant phases in the history have been directly influenced by its level. When oceans shrink, they leave behind coastal ponds and salt-impregnated marshes. When the seas rise, they engulf these salt-rich areas. In 500 BC, the sea was at its lowest recorded level-3feet below its present line. It was then that the Greek and the Phoenician civilisations reached their peaks. They had vast amounts of home-produced salt available for trade, and the Phoenicians increased their salt treasure by gathering stocks from as far as Spain.
- Around 400 BC, the Via Salaria, or the salt road, came into being in Italy-and still exists today as the oldest road in the country. Salt was carried along it from Rome to the Sabine people in Italy’s central regions. The salt trade flourished for 1000 years around the North Sea, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic…but the sea was rising. By AD 500, it had reached 3 feet above today’s level. In Europe, trade declined as salt works vanished under the encroaching waves.
- Today, the world consumes 169 million tonnes of salt a year-some from underground brine deposits, some from salt lakes or rock. But 30 percent of the output is still from coastal pans, which are just as vulnerable to rise in sea level as the pans which were submerged centuries ago. Our descendants hundreds of years from now will presumably be obtaining their salt from land now beneath the sea.
In each of the following questions 1 to 9, select the best of the four choices given.
Type the letter of the option representing the best answer on your answer sheet.
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Example: Our descendants hundreds of years from now will be obtaining their salt…
A. In the sea.
B. From land.
C. From land under the sea.
D. Under the sea
The best answer is C. Then type C in the spaces provided
1. According to paragraph 1, common salt has been taken for granted at meal times. This means
A. wars have been fought over it and empires have collapsed without it.
B. meals can hardly be taken without it.
C. its historical significance has been overlooked.
D. people have not realised that it is indispensible to life.
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2. The word ‘its’ in paragraph 1 refers to
A. salt’s importance.
B. Salarium.
C. Salary.
D. Salt.
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3. The Stone Age tribesmen began it all by following
A. the outcrops of salt rock for the survival of their animals
B. their cattle to outcrops of salt rock located by their animals.
C. their animals for survival.
D. the discovery of brine salts.
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4. Forests were necessary for
A. providing wood fires at salt springs.
B. the development of primitive cultures around sources of salt.
C. evaporating water from the precious salt.
D. Providing wood fires for evaporating water from precious salt.
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5. Which of the following statement is true according to the passage?
A. Landscapes altered the demand for salt.
B. Ancient people created coastal lakes and rivers by digging up the sea bed.
C. The demand for salt led to the creation of coastal lakes dug up by ancient people.
D. Coastal lakes were created by boiling the ashes in the seas.
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6. The salt industry was
A. the first industry operating in the early European countries.
B. one of the early industries operating in Europe.
C. operating in the early settlements.
B. operating only in the Middle and the Far east.
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7. The salt-rich areas have been created by
A. the rising of the sea water.
B. the sea water leaving behind coastal ponds and salt impregnated marshes.
C. Shrinking of oceans.
D. Oceans leaving behind salt impregnated marshes.
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8. In 500 BC the Greek and Phoenician civilisations reached their peaks because
A. the Phoenicians increased their salt treasure.
B. the Phoenicians gathered their stocks as far as Spain.
C. the sea was at its lowest recorded level.
D. They had huge stocks of home-made salt for trade.
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9. In Europe, trade declined when salt works vanished under the encroaching waves. This implies that…
A. there was no more trade going on.
B. there was trade going on but on a smaller scale.
C. the trade vanished under the encroaching waves.
D. the salt works were operating under the encroaching sea waves.
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Question 2 of 13
2. Question
Cloze Test [20 Marks]
Fill in the blank spaces using words of your own. Only one word is needed in each blank space.
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I well remember with what mixed feelings (1) 17th February, 1944, I heard of (2) proposals for the part we were (3) play in ‘Operation Overlord’. General ‘Boy’ Browning arrived at my headquarters (4) about eleven O’ clock (5) the morning. It was (6) bright crisp day and I readily recall the quiet feeling of controlled excitement that moved me when I knew the purpose (7) his visit. Our great moment had arrived. I was to be told what we had all been so impatiently wanting (8) know. All our training; all (9) endeavours; all our beliefs were at last to be put to (10) test. We had tried (11) think of every contingency. We, the whole team, had studied, laboured, pondered and deduced. We knew what we could do and what we wanted. We knew just how far the bow would stretch.
In my office I had (12) large desk (13) which I used to stand. This was wide and deep enough (14) carry the broad sheets of (15) usual ordinance survey maps with room to spare. The top of the desk (16) tilted to (17) angle of about forty-five degrees. This enabled one to stand with maps and papers spread out at such an angle that (18) could be easily read. On this desk at this moment was spread a sheet of Northern France. I recall the moment so vividly now. I could see the lawn (19) my window and the great trees around standing like sentinels (20) their grim brown winter bareness.
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Question 3 of 13
3. Question
A. He exceeded our expectations.
He did………………………………….
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He did
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Question 4 of 13
4. Question
A. It was clear that he did not understand the question.
B. That…………………………….
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B. That
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Question 5 of 13
5. Question
A. They did not give me the money
B. I……………………………….
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B. I
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Question 6 of 13
6. Question
A. “They have been living in Kasama since the 1960s and they will probably remain
there for many years,” my brother told me.
B. My brother told me that……………..
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B. My brother told me that
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Question 7 of 13
7. Question
You like history,………..? Add a question tag.
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Question 8 of 13
8. Question
A. Jack is younger than he looks.
B. Jack isn’t…….
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Jack isn’t
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Question 9 of 13
9. Question
A. I had a good time in Livingstone. I would like to go again.
B. I had such……
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I had such
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Question 10 of 13
10. Question
A. He gave us the papers as soon as he finished marking.
B. No sooner……
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No sooner
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Question 11 of 13
11. Question
A. If she does not accept my proposal, I will beat her.
B. Unless………
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Unless
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Question 12 of 13
12. Question
A. I don’t like the way she dresses in the evening.
B. I can’t stand her…….
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I can’t stand her
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Question 13 of 13
13. Question
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