Reading passages

70 -The reason why there was no one on board the Mary Celeste ---- .
A) was discovered by the captain of another ship
B) is that aliens took the captain and crew away in a spaceship
C) took several years to be discovered
D) has never been found
E) was the mutiny among the crew


71 -The Mary Celeste was sailing strangely because --- .
A) there was no one on board to sail the ship
B) it was not big enough to resist the giant ocean waves
C) the sails were not set properly
D) the ship was too heavy because of the crew's personal possessions
E) her cargo of industrial alcohol was above her capacity


72 -It is clear from the passage that --- .
A) there was a mutiny among the crew
B) the Mary Celeste was one of the finest sailing vessels of her day
C) the Mary Celeste was not well equipped for a long voyage
D) the people on board the Mary Celeste disappeared inexplicably
E) the crew of the Mary Celeste had been hit by an

We are all born with a number of instinctive physical reactions, things we do automatically, which are called primitive reflexes. One of the most interesting is called "grasp reflex". If you touch the palm of a baby's hand, the fingers will close around, whatever object is doing the touching. The baby's grip is so strong that if a baby grasps a rod with both hands, it can be lifted right off the ground. Some psychologists think that this goes back to our evolutionary past when we had to be able to hang on to tree branches or to our mother's fur as she moved. The reflex disappears at about six months of age.

73 -We understand from the passage that primitive reflexes ---- .
A) are concentrated in the palm of a baby's hand
B) are a way of lifting babies off the ground
C) sometimes disappear after six months
D) are things which we do automatically from the time we are born
E) are objects about which babies' fingers tend to close