Home J&K SET 2013 Paper 1 J&K State Eligibility Test 2013 General Paper 1 (43-50) Thirunavukkarasu TC 7/09/2016 0 Post a Comment Top comments Newest first LIS QUIZ SERIES Read the following passage and answer the questions from S. No. 1 to 6 : The actual course of human evolution before the dawn of history is traced chiefly by the tools and ornaments left by human beings, but also, though to a much smaller extent, by actual human remains in the shape of bones. From the evidence of tools, especially flint instruments, we can trace human progress more in detail. First came the crude objects known as eoliths– flints that needed only a few rough chips to make them serviceable. Then, in the Old Stone Age, the flints were definitely shaped, but never polished. In the New Stone Age they were polished too; but though bone was widely used, we never get a trace of metals. Then began the age of metals, first with bronze and then with iron; and with that we are at the beginning of recorded history. What is interesting is to find that progress becomes more and more rapid as time goes on. We may date the earliest know flint implement at something like half a million years ago. At least threequarters, probably nine-tenths, of that time had passed before humans learnt to polish flints. The age of bronze started perhaps ten thousand years ago, as apparently did the first agriculture. Practically all history is crowded into five thousand years, while the last thousand alone have been responsible for a whole host of fundamental inventions like printing, gunpowder, anaesthetics, mechanical transport, flying, wireless and the control over bacterial diseases. From human beings’ first beginnings until the present, the rate of progress has been growing more and more rapid; and there are no signs that it is slackening now. Humanity is biologically still youthful. Once the human type of mind originated, it brought with it speech and, as a result, permanent tradition, first by means of speech alone, then also by means of writing and later by printing. Through tradition humans come to differ fundamentally from all other organisms; for tradition provides a new method of inheritance, which simulates the inheritance of acquired characters and makes possible the passing on to later generations of the results of learning and of training. It is on tradition that the social environment depends, and what we call human progress has almost all been progress in our tradition. 1. The above passage links : Biological evolution and archaeology Animal evolution and human evolution Biological evolution and human progress Cultural and moral progress 2. Eoliths are : Rough, unpolished flints Rough, polished flints Shaped, but unpolished, flints Polished, definitely-shaped flints 3. Agriculture started at the same time as : The time when flints were polished The New Stone Age The Bronze Age The Iron Age 4. The author says that humanity is biologically still youthful because : Human history is crowded into the last five thousand years Progress becomes more and more rapid with time Human beings look youthful Human beings have learnt how to fly 5. Arrange the following in the correct sequence : Writing, speech, printing Speech, printing, writing Printing, writing, speech Speech, writing, printing 6. Tradition provides a new method of inheritance which : Allows us to enjoy music and the fine arts Simulates the inheritance of acquired biological characteristics Destroys our social structure Deprives later generations of the fruits of learning and knowledge 7. The scientific study of the relationship between living organisms and their living and non-living environment is known as : Environmentalism Ecology Pathology Ornithology 8. The full form of IPCC is : Indian Panel for Climate Change International Panel for Climate Change Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Intergovernmental Panel for Planning Change Tags: J&K SET 2013 Paper 1 Share This Article
