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Read the passage below and answer the questions
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People of long ago used to live in groups in
caves or in jungles. They wandered from place to
place hunting animals and looking for food like
nuts, roots, wild fruits and berries. Then
later people began to settle along or near
rivers. They lived near the rivers because they
were sources of water, food, trade and
transport. They used the river water for
drinking, cooking and washing. Their animals
also drank from these rivers.
The rivers were full of fish. Birds also
lived and laid their eggs near rivers. Birds got
their food from rivers too. As a result, these
areas provided a good source of food for the
people. the people caught the fish, collected
the birds' eggs and trapped the birds as food.
Rivers also made good farmland for these
early river settlers. during the yearly flood,
rivers carried along with them river mud which
was very fertile. this fertile soil was left
behind after each flood. Thus river banks or
valleys were suitable places for farming. The
people started to
cultivate their own crops. This means
they could settle down in one place and they
didn't have to wander in search of food any
more.
Besides the fertile soil, rivers were also
used as a form of highway. Men began to use
rafts and boats as a form of water transport to
carry their extra food. they sailed to another
part of the river to trade with the other
settlers. So they became farmers as well as
trades. When they began to travel up and down
the rivers, they learned about the customs and
beliefs of the other settlers.
As trade and transportation grew, the
population also grew. These river settlements
grew into cities, and these cities became
centers of great civilizations like those found
in early Egypt, India and China. These
civilizations had powerful governments with many
laws and government workers. Then these cities
grew into some of the important and powerful
countries in the world. |
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Why did people of long ago settle along rivers ? |
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Because there were sources of water for drinking, cooking and washing. |
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Because there were sources of food like fish, birds' eggs and birds. |
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Because there were sources of food, water, trade and transport.
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because there were sources of food like nuts, roots, fruits and berries. |
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Why were river banks suitable for farming for the early settlers ? |
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Because yearly floods occurred there. |
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Because the soil was fertile.
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Because the rivers carried along with them river mud. |
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Because the early settlers could settle down there and cultivate their
own crops. |
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3. |
The word cultivate can best be replaced
with |
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obtain. |
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look for |
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buy |
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grow
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4. |
How could rivers be used as a form of
highway ? |
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Boats could sail up and down the rivers when the settlers traded with
the others along the river.
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Rivers helped the settlers to become traders. |
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Rivers helped the settlers to carry their extra food. |
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Rivers helped the settlers to learn about the customs and beliefs of the
settlers. |
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5. |
All the statements are true EXCEPT |
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As trade and transportation grew, the population of river settlements
also grew. |
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As the river settlements grew, they became cities and centers of
civilization. |
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Egypt, India and China were at one time centers of great civilization. |
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Egypt, India and China were the only important and powerful countries in
the world to have rivers.
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6. |
The BEST title for this passage would
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River water. |
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River cities. |
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Rivers and the beginning of civilization.
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(D) |
Rivers and the customs and beliefs of the settlers. |
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