2023 T1W9 THE PAST (2008 A Level P2) Review

[From Passage 1, Para 1] How are history and what historians study different?

• History encompasses all that have happened in the world.

• History is all about natural history.

• Historians study more than what happened to humans.

• Historians only study 'human' history.

[Passage 1, Para 1] What is the meaning of 'presumptuous'?

• making premature assumptions

• being too arrogant

• being too bold and overstepping his/her limits

• having too much to endure

[Passage 1, Para 2] Why does Banatvala say that there has 'never been a better time' to 'explore our past than exists today'? (Choose all relevant answers)

• There is a greater need for an understanding of history today.

• Technology helps people to better unearth and examine the past .

• Advanced technology is used to keep, organize and distribute information about the past.

• People are more willing to share their novel ideas in today's world.

[Passage 1, Para 2] Name one word that tells you about the spread and increased accessibility of information as a result of the use of advanced technology?

[Passage 1, Para 3] What do the words 'or indeed impose' (line 18) tell you about human nature? (Choose all relevant options to answer the question completely)

• Humans are naturally inclined to see patterns in past events

• People like to organize random events

• Humans force a structure on random events

• So much so that when events appear to be random, we will force a structure on them

[Passage 1, Para 3] What is a phrase from paragraph 3 that has a similar meaning as 'ebb and flow of happening' (line 19)?

• 'some kind of order' (line 19)

• 'discernible movement' (line 20)

• 'a material process of evolution' (line 21)

• 'endless cycle of recurring events' (lines 26-27)

[Passage 1, Para 4] What do the 'various stories' in line 32 refer to? (Choose all relevant options to answer the question completely)

• History of our surroundings

• Stories about our ancestry

• Origins of our leisure activities

• Our past experiences

[Passage 1, Para 5] What is Banatvala referring to by using the word 'Reassuringly' in line 35?

• The benefits of history that we can enjoy

• We are not so unlike our ancestors and what happened to them can be relevant to us

• We can learn from them and not repeat their wrongdoings

• We can learn from them and replicate their victories

[Passage 1, para 6] What do you understand by 'annihilation of distance' in line 44? (Choose all relevant options to answer the question completely)

• Better accessibility

• The breakdown of physical barriers

• The importance of technology

• Technology has given us instant communication and fast means of travel.

[Passage 1, para 6] Why is the word 'family' (line 46) in inverted commas? (Choose all relevant options to answer the question completely)

• The author is being sarcastic.

• The author wants to show that family need not refer to people related by blood or lineage

• It refers to a community of people who have come together because of their shared pasts.

• It refers to the human race.