Welcome to your LT Grade English MCQs Mock Test 6
14. In which essay the author cites the reference of businessman saying that A businessman wants to be rich but in the end he finds that he has got it at the cost of his health. When he becomes rich, he does not have any pleasure. He has the pleasure of guiding other people to follow his example if they wish to be rich.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions (28-32) that follow: SANTINIKETAN, Aug 17. 1998: The rainy season has returned, and the man is back at his work. He is Pannalal Patel, the man who has completed 96 years, and is still going strong. Pannalal was once a 'terrorist'. Then he turned into a Gandhian. At present his mission is 'Meen Mangal" or "the well-being of fish", as he calls it. Come the rains, and Pannalal would release millions of young salmons into rivers following through the neighbourhood. He says that water without fish is just as absurd as fish without water. On Independence Day Eve, he had, as if, an appointment with the Ajoy, the river he loves and adores. Choked up with silt sand from bank to bank, the river remains almost dry throughout the year except in the rainy season. Once called 'the crazy river' for often changing its now better known for the great floods, at course, Ajoy intervals of some years, by flooding the villages on its banks. It then washes away people and cattle and houses, and brings great misery. The appointed day arrived. It was a cloudy afternoon at Palitpur, the venue of the programme whereas new bridge has been built across the river. Short speeches were made. Songs we sung. Mr. Patel took a handful of the young salmon and threw them into the water-once, twice, thrice. Others followed him. The hero of the day looked happy, and a smile lit up his wrinkled face. But some fisherman in the crowd were rather sceptical about the usefulness of the programme. Will the fish, when grown up, return to the same waters and be 1caught in their nets? Perhaps not. They talked among themselves. Mr. Patel, however, does not bother himself about who catches how much fish in which waters. He himself is a complete vegetarian. His only concern is the well-being of fish. (TGT-2005) Question:Pannalal Patel, who is very old, is still:
