Author's View

Read the following passage and answer the questions, based on what is stated or implied in the passage: Declassification of government documents has shed new light on the events comprising the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. Prior to the accessibility of these records, the only source of account of the Crisis for scholars and historians were the personal memoirs and narratives of the officials who served under Kennedy and Krushchev during this period. Many of declassified documents are transcriptions and notes of meetings between members of the CIA and President Kennedy's Cabinet, as well as the President himself. The revelations in these documents have demonstrated the inadvertent inaccuracies and intended obscurities inherent in the first person narratives of the Crisis, and has aided historians from all three countries involved in the Crisis to get a more authentic representation of what truly transpired, and for what reasons. Of perhaps the most interest to historians are declassified correspondence between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Krushchev that challenge the idea that the height of the Crisis extended only over the course of thirteen days. Indeed, these letters indicate that the Crisis was far from resolved by Khrushchev's October 28 decision to withdraw the Soviet Missiles from Cuba; instead it endured far into the following month, while slept fitfully under the illusion of peace.

The author's use of the phrase "inadvertent inaccuracies and intended obscurities" suggests all of the following EXCEPT

Read the following passage and answer the questions, based on what is stated or implied in the passage: Declassification of government documents has shed new light on the events comprising the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. Prior to the accessibility of these records, the only source of account of the Crisis for scholars and historians were the personal memoirs and narratives of the officials who served under Kennedy and Krushchev during this period. Many of declassified documents are transcriptions and notes of meetings between members of the CIA and President Kennedy's Cabinet, as well as the President himself. The revelations in these documents have demonstrated the inadvertent inaccuracies and intended obscurities inherent in the first person narratives of the Crisis, and has aided historians from all three countries involved in the Crisis to get a more authentic representation of what truly transpired, and for what reasons. Of perhaps the most interest to historians are declassified correspondence between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Krushchev that challenge the idea that the height of the Crisis extended only over the course of thirteen days. Indeed, these letters indicate that the Crisis was far from resolved by Khrushchev's October 28 decision to withdraw the Soviet Missiles from Cuba; instead it endured far into the following month, while slept fitfully under the illusion of peace.

According to the passage, which of the following statements (s) is/are true of the Cubian Missile

Crisis?

I. The Crisis is still shrouded in mystery

II. The memoirs of those closely involved in the Crisis were not entirely factual

III. The crisis spanned thirteen days

Anthropologists have placed together the little they known about the history of left handedness and right hand handedness from indirect evidence. Though early men and women did not leave written record, they did leave tool bones and picture. Stone Age hand axes and hatches made from stone that were carefully chipped away made to from 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 implement were made by or for left hander, Prehistoric pictures, painted on walls of caves, provider further clues to the handedness of ancient people. A righthander finds it easier to draw faces of people and animals facing towards the left whereas s a lefthander finds it easier to draw faces towards the right. Both kind of face 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 tool and weapon found from that Period are mostly made for right handed use .The predominance of right handednes among humans today and apparently already been established.

The author implies that which of the following developments occurred around the time of the Bronze Age

A Lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae living among filaments of multiple fungi in a symbiotic relationship. The combined lichen has properties different from those of its component organisms. Lichens come in many colours, sizes, and forms. The properties are sometimes plant like, but lichens are not plants. Lichens may have tiny leafless branches, flat leaf like structures or flakes that lie on the surface like peeling paint or other growth forms. Lichens occur from sea level to high alpine elevations, in many environmental conditions and can grow on almost any surface. Different kinds of lichens have adopted to survive in some of the most extreme environment on earth such as Arctic, Tundra, hot dry deserts, rocky coasts, and toxic slag heaps. They can even live inside solid rocks, growing between the grains. It is estimated that 6% of the earth’s land surface is covered by lichens. Some of them are considered to be the oldest living things. They are among the first living things to grow on fresh rock exposed after an event such as a land slide. The long life span and slow but regular growth rate of some lichens can be used to date events.

The passage aims at the view…….

Perseverance is about as important to achievement as gasoline is to drive a car. Sure, there will be times when you feel like you're spinning your wheels, but you'll always get out of the rut with genuine perseverance. Without it, you won't even be able to start your engine.

The opposite of perseverance is procrastination. Perseverance means you never quit. Procrastination usually means you never get started, although the inability to finish something is also a form of procrastination.

Ask people why they procrastinate, and you'll often hear something like, I'm a perfectionist. Everything has to be just right before I can get down to work. No distractions, not too much noise, no telephone calls interrupting me and of course, I have to be feeling well physically, too. I can't work when I have a headache."

Which statement best reflects the author's view on procrastination?