2016/2017 UNIBEN English Post-UTME

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PASSAGE I

Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before he discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had tp preserve it and when ever he is sent on a journey, he carried a fire brand with him. His discovery that the fire brand, from which the touch may well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving a flame.

Lamps, too, probably developed by incident. Early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float alighted reed in it. Such lamps, which were made of hollowed sea shells, have persisted in identical form up to quite recent times.

Primitive man preserved fire because

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Reading the passage I below carefully and answer the questions that follow

PASSAGE I

Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before he discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it and whenever he is sent on a journey, he carried a fire brand with him. His discovery that the fire brand, from which the touch may well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving a flame.

Lamps, too, probably developed by incident. Early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float alighted reed in it. Such lamps, which were made of hollowed sea shells, have persisted in identical form up to quite recent times.

One way early man made a lamp was by putting in lighted reed in a