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Reading Practice: 15

          Anthropologists have pieced together the little they know about the history of left - handedness and right - handedness from indirect evidence. Though early men and women did not leave written records, they did leave tools, bones, and pictures. Stone Age hand axes and hatchets were made from stones that were carefully chipped away to form sharp cutting edges. In some. the pattern of chipping shows that these tools and weapons were made by right  handed people. designed to fit comfortably into a right hand. Other Stone Age implements were made by or for left-handers Prehistoric pictures. painted on the walls of caves. provide further clues to the handedness of ancient people. A right - hander finds it easier to draw faces of people and animals facing toward the left. whereas a left - hander finds it easier to draw faces facing toward the right. Both kinds of faces have been found in ancient painting. On the whole. the evidence seems to indicate that prehistoric people were either ambidextrous or about equally likely to be left - or right - handed.
          But, in the Bronze Age. the picture changed. The tools and weapons found from that period are mostly made for right - handed use. The predominance of right - handedness among humans today had apparently already been established.


1. What is the main topic of the passage?
(A) The purpose of ancient implements
(B) The significance of prehistoric cave paintings
(C) The development of right - handedness and left - handedness
(D) The similarities between the Stone Age and Bronze Age

2. Which of the following helped lead to conclusions about whether Store Age people preferred one hand to the other?
(A) Petrified forms of vegetation                           (B) Patterns of stone chipping
(C) Fossilized waste material                                 (D) Fossilized footprints

3. In line 8, the word  "further" is closest in meaning to which of the following?
(A) advanced                  (B) additional                  (C) artistic                       (D) factual

2. According to the passage, a person who is right - handed is more likely to draw people and animals that are facing
(A) upward                                                            (B) downward
(C) toward the right                                               (D) toward the left

5. In line 13, the words "the picture"  refer to which of the following?
(A) Faces of animals and people
(B) People's view from inside a cave
(C) People's tendency to work with either hand
(D) The kinds of paint used on cave walls

6. Where in the passage does the author mention a type of evidence that was NOT studied by anthropologists researching the handedness of ancient people?
(A) Lines 2-3                                                         (B) Lines 7-8
(C) Lines 11-12                                                      (D) Lines 14-15

7. The author implies that which of the following developments occurred around the time of the Bronze Age
(A) The establishment of written records
(B) A change in the styles of cave painting
(C) An increase in human skill in the handling of tools
(D) The prevalence of righthandedness


 


Kunci Jawaban:
1) C 2) B 3) B 4) D 5) C 6) A 7) D