FECTION A: READING
1. Read the following passage carefully :-
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A chimpanzee is one of the great apes and the nearest in intelligence to man Scientists
have examined its mental capacities and sent it into space in anticipation of man.
Chimpanzees need little description. Being apes and not monkeys, they have no tails.
Their arms are longer than their legs and they normally run on all fours. They can also
walk upright with toes turned outwards. When erect they stand 3-5 ft high. The hair
are long and coarse, black except for a white patch near the rump. The face, ears, hands
and feet are bare and except for the black face, the flesh is coloured.
(Chimpanzees exhibit great concern for each other. When chimpanzees meet after
having been apart they greet each other in a very human way by touching each other or
even clasping hands, Chimpanzees have amazing social discipline. When a dominant
male arrives, the rest of the chimpanzees hurry to pay respect to it. The dominant male
is not allowed to wrest food from his inferiors. The members of a party also spend
considerable amount of time grooming each other and themselves. Mothers go through
the fur of their babies for any foreign particles, dirt, and ticks and they aid each othe
when they are injured.
to Chimpanzees are the best tool users apart from man. Sticks 2-3 ft long are picked or
the ground or broken from branches and pushed into nests, then withdrawn and th
honey or insects licked off. Stones are used to crack nuts or as missiles to drive human
and baboons away from its food. Chimpanzees are not only tool users but also toolmaker
They make their own rods by stripping the leaves off a twig, or tear shreds off a gra
stem. Baby chimpanzees learn all this by observing the older chimpanzees making a
using them. So man is not the only toolmaker, merely better at it than his relatives.
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n the basis of your reading of the passage, answer any eight questions briefly:
(8 mark
(a) How can you say that chimpanzees are very near man?
(6) What differentiates chimpanzees from apes ?
(c) How do chimpanzees meet after having been apart from each other?
(d) How do chimpanzees receive the dominant male when it comes to them?
(e) What great quality do the chimpanzees have which reveals their great concer
times of crisis ?
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a chimpanzee is one of the great apes and the nearest in intelligence to man scientists
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a) a chimpanzee is one of great apes and the nearest intelligence to man
b)being apps and not monkey say have no tails
c) when chimpanzees meet after having been apart they greet each other in a very human way by touching each other or even clasping hands
d) when are dorimant mails arrives the rest to the chimpanzees hurry to pay respect to it
e) chimpanzee exhibit great concern for each other
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