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ASSIGNMENT: ENGLISH COMPREHENSION

Objective

The objective of this assignment is to check student's comprehension skills. To help students improve their study habits in English, and thus improve their work in all the subjects they are studying in English, and to assess students' knowledge of extracting important information from the given passage.

Instructions

Late assignments will not be accepted.

Plagiarism will never be tolerated. Plagiarism occurs when a student uses work done by someone else as if it were his or her own.

Q1. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end:

An archaeologist studies the past and from the evidence he can find and build up a picture of how people lived. He is able to reconstruct the daily lives of men and women who lived thousands of years ago by studying scientifically the things which those men and women have left behind them. He prepares lists and compares their weapons and tools, their pots, needles and combs, and the ruined homes and graves in which these prehistoric possessions were found.

What kind of facts can the archaeologist learn from these random survivals of the past? From the weapons he judges the size of the animals their owners could kill; from the tools he sees what crafts they had mastered; from the pots and needles and combs he assesses the domestic skills, and fashions of their wives, and from their graves, and more the objects found in the graves, he understands primitive man's hopes and fears of an afterlife. With the archeologist's help it is now possible to give in some details about 9,000 years of history in the Middle East and to write a generally reliable account of human evolution going back some half-million years.

Q i) How does an archaeologist learn about the lives of men and women who lived thousands of years ago?
Q ii) To what extent has the archeologist helped us in our study of world history?

Q iii) Suggest a suitable title for the passage.

Q2. Use grammatical information to predict the word that correctly completes each of the following sentences. Write the word on the line.

1. Sometimes oil ___________________ to the surface to form tar pits.

Easily
seeps
well
expensive

2. Snakes __________________ on earth for about 125 million years.

Sometime
have been
reptiles
long time.

3. Within the last few years a new and ________________ science has been explored.

Exciting
recently
much
within

4. This may seem to be _____________________________ very long time.

Really
a
prehistory
lived

5. It _________________________ body language.

Not before
known as
is called
a human