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Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: [10] Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Gymnastics, figure skating and synchronized swimming are sports that incorporate dance. Motion in ordinarily inanimate objects may also be described as dance. Every dance no matter what style, has something in common. It not only involves flexibility and body movement, but also physics. If the proper physics is not taken into consideration injuries may occur. Choreography is the art of creating dances. The person who creates a dance is known as the choreographer. Dance has certainly been an important part of ceremony, rituals, celebrations and entertainment since the birth of the earliest human civilizations. Archaeology delivers trace of dance from prehistoric times such as the 9,000 years old Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka painting in India and Egyptian tomb painting depicting dancing figures from circa 3300 BC. Once of the earliest structured uses of dances may have been in the performance and in the telling of myths. Before the production of written languages dance was one of the methods of passing these stories down from generation to generation. The history of literature really began long before man learned to write. Dancing was the earliest of the arts. Man danced for joy round his primitive camp fire after the defeat of his enemy. He yelled and shouted as he danced and gradually the yells and shouts became coherent and caught the measure of the dance and thus the first war song was sung. As the idea of God developed prayers were framed. The song and prayer became traditional and were repeated from one generation to another, each generation adding something of its own. As man slowly grew more civilized he was compelled to invent some method of writing by three urgent necessities. Then were certain things that it was dangerous to forget and which, therefore, had to be recorded. It was often necessary to communicate with persons who were some distance away and it was necessary to protect one’s property by making tools cattle and so on, in some distinctive manner. So man taught himself to write and having learned to write purely for utilitarian reasons he used this new method for preserving his war songs and his prayers. Of course, among these ancient people, there were only a very few individual who learned to write, and only a few could read what was written. i. An art form in which people move __________ is called dance.

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a) Spiritually

b) Rhythmically

c) Expressively

d) Humorously

2.ii. A writer in a poetic mood may use the word dance to describe the ___________ of some object.

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a) Movement

b) Beauty

c) Rhythm

d) Velocity

3.iii. To avoid being hurt one should consider the ___________ of object and its movements while dancing.

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a) Flexibility

b) Style

c) Physics

d) Movement

4.iv. Before the script of writing, dance used to be a ______________ from one generation to another.

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a) Mode of passing information

b) Mode of passing stories

c) Mode of sharing experiences

d) Mode of narrating events

5.v. Before man invented writing, __________________________.

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a) Literature was passed on by word of mouth

b) Prayers were considered literature

c) Literature was just singing and dancing

d) All of the above

6.vi. As for the war songs and prayers each generation, ____________________.

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a) Added something of its own to the stock

b) Blindly repeated the songs and prayers

c) Composed its own songs and prayers

d) Repeated what was handed down to it

7.vii. The first war song was ____________________.

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a) Developed spontaneously

b) Inspired by god.

c) A song traditionally handed down

d) Composed by leading dancers.

8.viii. Man invented writing because he wanted to ________________.

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a) Write literature

b) Write war song

c) Be artistic

d) Record and communicate

9.ix. A word in the passage which means the same as ‘lifeless’ is ______________.

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a) Animate

b) Primitive

c) Inanimate

d) Motionless

10.x. The word ‘measure’ in the context of the passage means ___________________.

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d) Quantity​

Answer 1

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