Questions 1 - 6 Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
There are not many places that I find more agreeable to revisit, when in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been. For my acquaintance with affectionate nature that I take a particular interest in assuring myself that they are unchanged. I never was on Robinson Crusoe's Island, yet I frequently return there. I was never in Don Quixote's study, where he read his books of chivalry until he rose and hacked at imaginary giants; yet you couldn't move a book in it without my knowledge. So with Lilliput, and the Nile, and Abyssinia, and the North Pole, and many hundreds of places - I was never at them, yet it is an affair of my life to keep them intact, and I am always going back to them.
The books one reads in childhood create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can even survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent. The Pampas, the Amazon, the Coral Islands of the Pacific, Russia, Transylvania with its vampires, China, Paris - one could continue the list for a long time. But one other imaginary country that I acquired early in life was called America. If I pause on the word 'America', and deliberately put aside the existing reality, I can call up my childhood vision of it.
1. How does the author develop an acquaintance with 'those spots'?
(A) through his revisits
(C) through his observation
(B) through his reading
(D) through his imagination
ANSWER: - B
2. What does the author wish those spots to be?
(A) develop greatly
(C) remain as such
(B) expand rapidly
(D) flourish fast
ANSWER: - C
3. The books Don Quixote is seen reading are—--------
(A) books of horror.
(B)books of humour
(C) books of travel
(D) books of gallantry
ANSWER: - D
4. The author revisits the places referred to in the passage when
(A) he is not doing any work. -
(B) he gets a holiday.
(C) he gets good company.
(D) he has enough money.
ANSWER: - A
5. Why does the author call America 'an imaginary country'?
(A)America has been the subject of numerous works for children.
(B) He has never seen America.
(C) His current vision of that country is not related to reality.
(D) His childhood vision of that country owed nothing to actual conditions.
ANSWER: - B
6. The word used in the passage that means 'a corpse leaving its grave to suck the Blood of the living is a ..............
(A) giant
(B) acquaintance
(C) vampire
(D) fabulous
ANSWER: - C
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