Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the…
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Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the information provided in the passage.
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 went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. His discovery that the firebrand, from which the torch may very well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving a flame.Lamps, too, probably developed by accident. Early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibre burning in the molten fat dropped from a roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. Such lamps, which are made of hollowed stones or sea shells, have persisted in identical from up to quite recent times.
Early lamps were made by
- A.
Using a reed as a wick in the fat
- B.
letting a reed soak the fat
- C.
putting the fat in a shell and lighting it
- D.
floating a reed in the sea-shell
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Correct answer: D
Correct answer: Using a reed as a wick in the fat.
The passage explains that early lamps were made by shaping a vessel to hold melted fat and placing a lighted reed in it so the reed acted like a wick for illumination.