Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

My most interesting visitor comes at night, when the lights are still burning- a tiny bat who prefers to fly in through the open door, and will use the window only if there is no alternative. His object in entering the house is to snap up the moths that cluster around the lamps. All the bats I have seen fly fairly high, keeping near the ceiling; but this particular bat flies in low, like a dive bomber, zooming in and out of chair legs and under tables. Once, he passed straight between my legs. Has his radar gone wrong, I wondered, or is he just plain crazy?

Consider the following statements:

1. The tiny bat flew in low like a dive-bomber.
2. The tiny bat like all bats keeps near the ceiling.
3. It has lost direction because its radar has gone wrong.
4. It wants to entertain the author with its skill in flying.

Which of the above statements may be assumed to be true from the information given in the passage?

• 1 only

• 1 and 3

• 2 and 4

• 3 and 4

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

My most interesting visitor comes at night, when the lights are still burning- a tiny bat who prefers to fly in through the open door, and will use the window only if there is no alternative. His object in entering the house is to snap up the moths that cluster around the lamps. All the bats I have seen fly fairly high, keeping near the ceiling; but this particular bat flies in low, like a dive bomber, zooming in and out of chair legs and under tables. Once, he passed straight between my legs. Has his radar gone wrong, I wondered, or is he just plain crazy?

The bat entered the room:

• because there was no alternative

• to eat the moths round the lamps

• as it had gone mad

• as it preferred to fly in through the open door

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

My most interesting visitor comes at night, when the lights are still burning- a tiny bat who prefers to fly in through the open door, and will use the window only if there is no alternative. His object in entering the house is to snap up the moths that cluster around the lamps. All the bats I have seen fly fairly high, keeping near the ceiling; but this particular bat flies in low, like a dive bomber, zooming in and out of chair legs and under tables. Once, he passed straight between my legs. Has his radar gone wrong, I wondered, or is he just plain crazy?

After comparing the habits of the tiny bat with those of other bats, the author was:

• sure that this bat had lost its direction

• not sure of its preferences

• surprised to find that it was an expertflier

• unable to give the correct explanation for its behaviour

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

My most interesting visitor comes at night, when the lights are still burning- a tiny bat who prefers to fly in through the open door, and will use the window only if there is no alternative. His object in entering the house is to snap up the moths that cluster around the lamps. All the bats I have seen fly fairly high, keeping near the ceiling; but this particular bat flies in low, like a dive bomber, zooming in and out of chair legs and under tables. Once, he passed straight between my legs. Has his radar gone wrong, I wondered, or is he just plain crazy?

The author calls the tiny bat an "interesting visitor". This means

• the bat visits him at night

• the bat is interested in the moths

• this bat has peculiar qualities

• this bat surprises him by zooming in and out like a dive-bomber

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

My most interesting visitor comes at night, when the lights are still burning- a tiny bat who prefers to fly in through the open door, and will use the window only if there is no alternative. His object in entering the house is to snap up the moths that cluster around the lamps. All the bats I have seen fly fairly high, keeping near the ceiling; but this particular bat flies in low, like a dive bomber, zooming in and out of chair legs and under tables. Once, he passed straight between my legs. Has his radar gone wrong, I wondered, or is he just plain crazy?

What, according to you, can be the most suitable title for the passage?

• Someone visits me

• Night of Mysteries

• My Nocturnal Visitor

• A Funny Visitor

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question out of the four alternative.

We had just passed Tenali, where I roused myself in order to hear the name of the station. As I was falling asleep again, a violent jolt shot me into the arms of somebody in the seat opposite. The engine with one wheel broken was lying across the trak and beside it was the luggage van, likewise, derailed. Groaning, wheezing, gasping, sputtering in its death agony, the engine was like a fallen horse which, snorting, trembling in every limb, its flanks heaving, its chest labouring, seems incapable of making the smallest effort to struggle on to its legs again.

The author had roused himself as he wanted to

• get off

• meet someone

• know the name of the station

• keep himself awake

27.

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question out of the four alternative.

We had just passed Tenali, where I roused myself in order to hear the name of the station. As I was falling asleep again, a violent jolt shot me into the arms of somebody in the seat opposite. The engine with one wheel broken was lying across the trak and beside it was the luggage van, likewise, derailed. Groaning, wheezing, gasping, sputtering in its death agony, the engine was like a fallen horse which, snorting, trembling in every limb, its flanks heaving, its chest labouring, seems incapable of making the smallest effort to struggle on to its legs again.

The engine stopped because

• the driver had stopped it

• one of the wheels was broken

• there was a halting place

• there was no fuel

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question out of the four alternative.

We had just passed Tenali, where I roused myself in order to hear the name of the station. As I was falling asleep again, a violent jolt shot me into the arms of somebody in the seat opposite. The engine with one wheel broken was lying across the trak and beside it was the luggage van, likewise, derailed. Groaning, wheezing, gasping, sputtering in its death agony, the engine was like a fallen horse which, snorting, trembling in every limb, its flanks heaving, its chest labouring, seems incapable of making the smallest effort to struggle on to its legs again.

The engine is compared to a fallen horse because

• it was groaning like a horse

• it was lying across the track

• it could make no effort to stand upright

• it had a broken wheel

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question out of the four alternative.

I was beginning to tire a little now. I had been cutting steps continuously for two hours, and Tenzing, too, was moving very slowly. As I chipped steps around still another corner, I wondered rather dully just how long we could keep it up. Our original zest had now quite gone and it was turning more into a grim struggle. I then realised that the ridge ahead, instead ofstill monotonously rising, now dropped sharply away, and far below I could see the North Col and Rongbuk glacier. I looked upwards to see a narrow ridge running up to a snowy summit. A few more whacks of the ice-axe in the firm snow and we stood on top.

Which of the following is the most appropriate description of the area in which the narrator had been moving?

• A steep rocky slope

• A peak with a flight of steps

• A high peak covered with snow

• A long ridge

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to the question out of the four alternative.

I was beginning to tire a little now. I had been cutting steps continuously for two hours, and Tenzing, too, was moving very slowly. As I chipped steps around still another corner, I wondered rather dully just how long we could keep it up. Our original zest had now quite gone and it was turning more into a grim struggle. I then realised that the ridge ahead, instead ofstill monotonously rising, now dropped sharply away, and far below I could see the North Col and Rongbuk glacier. I looked upwards to see a narrow ridge running up to a snowy summit. A few more whacks of the ice-axe in the firm snow and we stood on top.

'I had been cutting steps continuously for two hours' suggests that

• the climber was unskilled in the art of making steps

• he had to cut the steps out of snow before climbing up which was necessarily a slow process

• the slowness was caused by the fact that as soon as he cut the steps they were again covered with snow

• he had to work suspended from a ledge