GST: English-09 B Unit (2020-21)

Read the following passage and answer questions:
The earliest system of writing is usually attributed to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia during the end of the fourth millennium B.C. There, officials of such Sumerian city-states as Uruk had developed a system of recording numerals, pictographs and ideographs on specially prepared clay surfaces.
Although the clay blanks used by the Uruk scribes are universally referred to as tablets, a word with the connotation of flatness, they are actually convex. Individual characters were inscribed in the clay by means of a stylus made of wood, bone or ivory, with one end blunt and the other pointed. The characters were basically of two kinds. Numerical signs were impressed into the clay; all other signs, pictographs and ideographs alike, were incised with the pointed end of the stylus. The repertory of characters used by the Uruk scribes was large; it is estimated at no fewer than 1,500 separate signs.
Qs: This passage mainly discusses¾¾.

Read the following passage and answer questions:
The earliest system of writing is usually attributed to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia during the end of the fourth millennium B.C. There, officials of such Sumerian city-states as Uruk had developed a system of recording numerals, pictographs and ideographs on specially prepared clay surfaces.
Although the clay blanks used by the Uruk scribes are universally referred to as tablets, a word with the connotation of flatness, they are actually convex. Individual characters were inscribed in the clay by means of a stylus made of wood, bone or ivory, with one end blunt and the other pointed. The characters were basically of two kinds. Numerical signs were impressed into the clay; all other signs, pictographs and ideographs alike, were incised with the pointed end of the stylus. The repertory of characters used by the Uruk scribes was large; it is estimated at no fewer than 1,500 separate signs.
Qs: According to the passage, how were pictographs recorded?

Read the following passage and answer questions:
The earliest system of writing is usually attributed to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia during the end of the fourth millennium B.C. There, officials of such Sumerian city-states as Uruk had developed a system of recording numerals, pictographs and ideographs on specially prepared clay surfaces.
Although the clay blanks used by the Uruk scribes are universally referred to as tablets, a word with the connotation of flatness, they are actually convex. Individual characters were inscribed in the clay by means of a stylus made of wood, bone or ivory, with one end blunt and the other pointed. The characters were basically of two kinds. Numerical signs were impressed into the clay; all other signs, pictographs and ideographs alike, were incised with the pointed end of the stylus. The repertory of characters used by the Uruk scribes was large; it is estimated at no fewer than 1,500 separate signs.
Qs: Which of the following terms NOT refer to something on which early writing was inscribed?

The house was ____ fire.

Do not cry ¾¾¾ spilt milk.

He has been absent ______.

If we had a boat, we ¾¾¾ the river.

Not until a cow is teased ¾¾¾

People make more mistakes when they are ¾¾¾ when they are fresh.

Only those who are not serious to their success work by ___ and starts.

If I’d known you were alone, I ––––––.

Hardly had the train stopped ¾¾¾

No confusion regarding the grammatical subject occurs in ¾¾¾.

Choose the correct sentence

I don’t care –––– you but I take care ––––– your studies.

Choose the correct sentence