Question ID - 84891 | SaraNextGen Top Answer

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

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Long ago men spent most of their time looking for food. They ate anything they could find. Some lived mostly on plants. They ate the fruit, stems, and leaves of some plants and the roots of others. When food was scarce, they ate the bark of trees. If they were lucky, they would find a bird’s nest with eggs. People who lived near the water ate fish or anything that washed ashore, even rotten whales. Some people also ate insects and small animals like lizards that were easy to kill.      Later, men learned to made weapons. With weapons, they could kill larger animals for meat. These early people had big appetites. If they killed an animal, they would drink the blood, eat the meat, and chew the bones. When they finished the meal, there was nothing left.      At first men wandered from place to place to find their food. But when they began to grow plants, they stayed in one place and ate what they could grow. They tamed animals, trained them to work, and killed them for meat. Life was a little better then, but there was still not much variety in their meals. Day after day people ate the same food.      Gradually men began to travel greater distances. The explorers who sailed unknown seas found new lands. And in these lands, they found new food and spices and took them back home.      The Portuguese who sailed around the stormy Cape of Good Hope to reach China took back “Chinese apples”, the fruit we call oranges today. Later, Portuguese colonists carried orange seeds to Brazil. From Brazil oranges were brought to California, the first place to grow oranges in the United States. Peaches and melons also came from China. So, did a new drink, tea.

The phrase lives on in the passage means
(a)	to eat a certain kind of food in order to survive	(b)	to eat greedily
(c)	to eat everything that you are given to eat	(d)	to depend on plants and foods for a livelihood
At first men wandered from place to place to find their food. Then some of them began to stay in one place, Why?
(a)	Because they began to grow plats, and ate what they could grow.	(b)	Because they tamed animals and birds, and killed them for meat.
(c)	Because they trained wild animals and killed them for meat.	(d)	Because they began to grow plants and fruits, and ate what they could grow.
Which word in the passage means the main axis of a plant that bears buds and shoots?
(a)	Roots	(b)	Stems
(c)	Bark	(d)	Leaves
What does the word stormy in the expression the stormy Cape of Good Hope mean?
(a)	Volcanic	(b)	Strong
(c)	Hopeless	(d)	Rough
Which of the following titles best expresses the main idea of the passage?
(a)	Eat Healthy Food	(b)	The Search for Food
(c)	The Foods We Eat	(d)	Great Food Regions of the World.