Welcome to your LT Grade English MCQs Mock Test 8
In which essay the following lines form a part of- "Many men who spend their working life in the City devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens, and when the spring comes they experience all the joys of having created beauty."
In which essay the following lines form a part of- "A dog will pursue rabbits to the point of complete exhaustion and be happy all the time, but if you put the dog on a treadmill and gave him a good dinner after half an hour, he would not be happy till he got the dinner, because he would not have been engaged in a natural activity meanwhile?
Direction: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions (26-30) given below: Just as some men like to play football or cricket, so some men like to climb mountains. This is often very difficult to do, for mountains are not just bill hills. Paths are usually very steep. Some mountain sides are straight up and down, so that it may take many hours to climb as little as one hundred feet. There is always the danger that you may fall off and be killed or injured. Men talk about conquering a mountain. It is a wonderful feeling to reach the top of a mountain after climbing for hours and may be, even for days. You look down and see the whole country below you. You feel god-like. Two Italian prisoners of war escaped from a prison camp in Kenya during the war. They did not try to get back to their country, for they knew that was impossible. Instead, they climbed to the top of Mount Kenya, and then they came down and gave themselves up. They had wanted to get that feeling of freedom that one has after climbing a difficult mountain..10 Question: 26: Some men like to climb a mountain, because:
As Caesar loved me I wept for him; as he was fortunate I rejoice at it he was valiant I honour him but as he was ambitious, I slew him (TGT- 09, PGT 2000)