Reading Passage 1: "William Kamkwamba"


Answer: B Noble and Davidson



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Answer:
B Noble and Davidson
Part of the passage
William Noble and lain Davidson
conclude that language is
a feature of anatomically modern humans, and an
essential precursor
of the earliest
symbolic pictures in rock art, ritual burial, major sea-crossings, structured shelters and
hearths-all dating, they argue, to the last 100,000 years.
Q 35. The development of human language can be gauged by studying other
species.
Answer:
A Hauser
Part of the passage:

Marc Hauser
(Harvard University) and colleagues argue that the
study of animal behavior and communication can teach us how the faculty of language
in the narrow human sense evolved. Other animals don’t come close to understanding
our sophisticated thought processes. Nevertheless, the complexity of human expression
may have started off as simple stages in animal thinking or problem-solving. For ex-
ample, number processing (how many lions are we up against, navigation (time to fly
south for the winter, or social relations (we need teamwork to build this shelter.
In other
words, we can potentially track language by looking at the behavior of other animals.
Q 36. Gossiping makes humans feelgood.
Answer:
C Dunbar
Part of the passage
Dunbar
notes that
just as grooming releases opiates that create a
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feeling of wellbeing in monkeys and apes, so do the smiles and laughter associated with
human banter.
Q 37. The actions of early humans could have evolved into a form of

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