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    [passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows. [/passage-header]1. We often make all things around us the way we want them. Even during our pilgrimages we have begun to look for whatever makes our heart happy, gives comfort to our body and peace to the mind. It is as if external solutions will fulfil our needs, and we do not want to make any special efforts even in our spiritual search. Our mind is resourceful - it works to find shortcuts in simple and easy ways.
    2. Even pilgrimages have been converted into tourism opportunities. Instead, we must awaken our conscience and souls and understand the truth. Let us not tamper with our own nature of that of the Supreme.
    3. All our cleverness is rendered ineffective when nature does a dance of destruction. Its fury can and will wash away all imperfections. Indian culture, based on Vedic treatises, assists in human evolution, but we are using our entire energy in distorting these traditions according to our convenience instead of making efforts to make ourselves worthy of them.
    4. The irony is that humans are not even aware of the complacent attitude they have allowed themselves to sink to. Nature is everyone's Amma and her fierce blows will sooner or later corner us and force us to understand this truth. Earlier, pilgrimages to places of spiritual significance were rituals that were undertaken when people became free from their worldly duties. Even now some seekers take up this pious religious journey as a path to peace and knowledge. Anyone travelling with this attitude feels and travels with only a few essential items that his body can carry. 'Pilgrims traditionally travelled light, on foot, eating light, dried chickpeas and fruits or whatever was available. Pilgrims of olden days did not feel the need to stay in special AC bedrooms, or travel by luxury cars or indulge themselves with delicious food and savouries.
    5. Pilgrims traditionally moved ahead, creating a feeling of belonging towards all, conveying a message of brotherhood among all they came across whether in small caves, ashrams or local settlements. They received the blessings and congregations of yogis and mahatmas in return while conducting the dharma of their pilgrimage. A pilgrimage is like penance of sadhana to stay near nature and to experience a feeling of oneness with it, to keep the body healthy and fulfilled with the amount of food, while seeking freedom from attachments and yet remaining happy while staying away from relatives and associates.
    6. This is how a pilgrimage should be rather than making it like a picnic by taking a large group along and living in comfort, packing in entertainment, and tampering with the environment. What is worse is giving a boost to the ego of having had a special darshan. Now alms are distributed, charity is done while they brag about their spiritual experience!
    7. We must embark on our spiritual journey by first understanding the grace and significance of a pilgrimage and following it up into the ultimate and beautiful medium of spiritual evolution. There is no justification for tampering with nature.
    8. A pilgrimage is symbolic of contemplation, meditation, and acceptance, and is a metaphor for the constant growth or movement and love for nature that we should hold in our hearts.
    9. This is the truth!

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    How can a pilgrim keep his body healthy?
    Solution
    Option D is the right answer because both the Options A and B are clearly mentioned in the passage which reads as - 'Pilgrims traditionally travelled light, on foot, eating light, dried chickpeas and fruits or whatever was available.'
    Options A and B are incorrect because they are incomplete.
    There is no evidence in the passage to suggest that Option C is the right answer.
    Therefore it is incorrect.
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    In the second year of the reign of Valentinian and Valens, on the morning of the twenty-first day of July, the greatest part of the Roman world was shaken by a violent and destructive earthquake. 68146The impression was communicated to the waters53087; the shores of the Mediterranean were left dry, by the sudden retreat of the sea; 79737great quantities of fish were caught with the hand; large vessels were stranded on the mud; and 55567a curious spectator amused his eye, or rather his fancy, by contemplating the various appearance of valleys and mountains, which had never, since the formation of the globe, been exposed to the sun.31229 
    23078But the tide soon returned, with the weight of an immense and irresistible deluge, which was severely felt27450 on the coasts of Sicily, of Dalmatia, of Greece, and of Egypt: large boats were transported, and lodged on the roofs of houses, or at the distance of two miles from the shore; the people, with their habitations, were swept away by the waters; and 24201the city of Alexandria annually commemorated the fatal day, on which fifty thousand persons had lost their lives in the inundation.19659
    This calamity, the report of which was magnified from one province to another, astonished and terrified the subjects of Rome; and their affrighted imagination enlarged the real extent of a momentary evil. They recollected the preceding earthquakes, which had subverted the cities of Palestine and Bithynia: 37755they considered these alarming strokes as the prelude only of still more dreadful calamities54003, and their fearful vanity was disposed to confound the symptoms of a 90364declining empire and a sinking world.

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    Which of the following is true, according to the passage?
    Solution
    The earthquake had affected the water input through the Mediterranean, which surged into the inland and caused havoc. Heavy amounts of water rushed into the towns and cities causing destruction all over. Thus, option E, primary damage caused by water surge, is the correct answer. The statements of options A, B, C, and D are not substantiated by the text and, thus, are incorrect in this context.
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    ROSE: Time have changed since you was playing baseball, Troy. That was before the war. Times have changed a lot since then.
    TROY: How in hell they done changed?
    ROSE: They got lots of colored boys playing ball now. Baseball and football.
    BONO: You right about that, Rose. Times have changed, Troy. You just come along too early.
    TROY: 78267There ought not never have been no time called too early! Now you take that fellow . . . what's that fellow they had laying right field for the Yankees back then? You know who I'm talking about, Bono. Used to play right field for the Yankees.
    ROSE: Selkirk?
    TROY: Selkirk! That's it! Man batting. 269, understand? 269. What kind of sense that make? I was hitting. 432 with thirty-seven home runs! Man batting. 269 and playing right field for the Yankees! I saw Josh Gibson's* daughter yesterday. She walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet. Now I bet you Selkirk's daughter ain't walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet! I bet you that!
    ROSS: They got a lot of colored baseball players now. Jackie Robinson was the first. Folks had to wait for Jackie Robinson.
    TROY: I done seen a hundred niggers play baseball better than Jackie Robinson. Hell, I know some teams Jackie Robinson couldn't even make! Jackie Robinson wasn't nobody. I'm talking about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don't care what color you were. Come telling me  I come along to early. If you could play ...then they ought to have let you play. (Troy takes a long drink from the bottle.)
    ROSE: You gonna drink yourself to death. You don't need to be drinking like that.
    TROY: Death ain't nothing. I done seen him. Done wrastled with him. You can't tell me nothing about death. Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. And you know what I'll do to that! Lookee here, Bono . . . am I lying? You get one of them fastballs, about waist height, over the outside corner of the plate where you can get the meat of the bat on it . . . and good god! You can kiss it goodbye. Now, am I lying?
    BONO: Now, you telling the truth there. I see you do it.
    TROY: If I''m lying . . . that 450 feet worth of lying! (Pause.) That's all death is to me. A fastball on the outside corner.
    ROE: I don't know why you want to get on talking about death.
    TROY: Ain't nothing wrong with talking about death. That's part of life. Everybody gonna die. You gonna die, I'm gonna die. Bono's gonna die. Hell, we all gonna die.

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    Troy begins a speech by personifying death and then proceeds to _________.
    Solution
    The passage shows the conversation on death between Troy and Bono. In the last conversation, Troy explains fearlessly that there is nothing wrong talking about death as it is part of everybody's life. Everybody gonna die. Thus. it shows his fearlessness of death. Thus, option C is the correct answer. 
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    In the second year of the reign of Valentinian and Valens, on the morning of the twenty-first day of July, the greatest part of the Roman world was shaken by a violent and destructive earthquake. 68146The impression was communicated to the waters53087; the shores of the Mediterranean were left dry, by the sudden retreat of the sea; 79737great quantities of fish were caught with the hand; large vessels were stranded on the mud; and 55567a curious spectator amused his eye, or rather his fancy, by contemplating the various appearance of valleys and mountains, which had never, since the formation of the globe, been exposed to the sun.31229 
    23078But the tide soon returned, with the weight of an immense and irresistible deluge, which was severely felt27450 on the coasts of Sicily, of Dalmatia, of Greece, and of Egypt: large boats were transported, and lodged on the roofs of houses, or at the distance of two miles from the shore; the people, with their habitations, were swept away by the waters; and 24201the city of Alexandria annually commemorated the fatal day, on which fifty thousand persons had lost their lives in the inundation.19659
    This calamity, the report of which was magnified from one province to another, astonished and terrified the subjects of Rome; and their affrighted imagination enlarged the real extent of a momentary evil. They recollected the preceding earthquakes, which had subverted the cities of Palestine and Bithynia: 37755they considered these alarming strokes as the prelude only of still more dreadful calamities54003, and their fearful vanity was disposed to confound the symptoms of a 90364declining empire and a sinking world.

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    It can be inferred from the passage that people affected by the earthquake were _______.
    Solution
    Option B, superstitious, is the correct answer. The people of Rome were extreme believers of their ingrained superstitions, to the point that they believed natural calamities to bring forth more destruction to their empire and even the world. There is no indication of them being homogenous, reactionary or regretful. They were certainly not insightful taking into account their ignorance of the disaster that hit them. Therefore, options A, C, D and E are incorrect.
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    ROSE: Time have changed since you was playing baseball, Troy. That was before the war. Times have changed a lot since then.
    TROY: How in hell they done changed?
    ROSE: They got lots of colored boys playing ball now. Baseball and football.
    BONO: You right about that, Rose. Times have changed, Troy. You just come along too early.
    TROY: 78267There ought not never have been no time called too early! Now you take that fellow . . . what's that fellow they had laying right field for the Yankees back then? You know who I'm talking about, Bono. Used to play right field for the Yankees.
    ROSE: Selkirk?
    TROY: Selkirk! That's it! Man batting. 269, understand? 269. What kind of sense that make? I was hitting. 432 with thirty-seven home runs! Man batting. 269 and playing right field for the Yankees! I saw Josh Gibson's* daughter yesterday. She walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet. Now I bet you Selkirk's daughter ain't walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet! I bet you that!
    ROSS: They got a lot of colored baseball players now. Jackie Robinson was the first. Folks had to wait for Jackie Robinson.
    TROY: I done seen a hundred niggers play baseball better than Jackie Robinson. Hell, I know some teams Jackie Robinson couldn't even make! Jackie Robinson wasn't nobody. I'm talking about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don't care what color you were. Come telling me  I come along to early. If you could play ...then they ought to have let you play. (Troy takes a long drink from the bottle.)
    ROSE: You gonna drink yourself to death. You don't need to be drinking like that.
    TROY: Death ain't nothing. I done seen him. Done wrastled with him. You can't tell me nothing about death. Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. And you know what I'll do to that! Lookee here, Bono . . . am I lying? You get one of them fastballs, about waist height, over the outside corner of the plate where you can get the meat of the bat on it . . . and good god! You can kiss it goodbye. Now, am I lying?
    BONO: Now, you telling the truth there. I see you do it.
    TROY: If I''m lying . . . that 450 feet worth of lying! (Pause.) That's all death is to me. A fastball on the outside corner.
    ROE: I don't know why you want to get on talking about death.
    TROY: Ain't nothing wrong with talking about death. That's part of life. Everybody gonna die. You gonna die, I'm gonna die. Bono's gonna die. Hell, we all gonna die.

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    Troy's attitude toward death is primarily one of ________.
    Solution
    Troy is very vocal about his indifference towards death, claiming he doesn't fear death for he had already witnessed it. Option C, boastful nonchalance, expertly captures his emotions. There isn't any kind of denial, or naivete in his tone, neither does he feel cowardly or anticipate death. Thus, options A,B,D and E are incorrect.
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    ROSE: Time have changed since you was playing baseball, Troy. That was before the war. Times have changed a lot since then.
    TROY: How in hell they done changed?
    ROSE: They got lots of colored boys playing ball now. Baseball and football.
    BONO: You right about that, Rose. Times have changed, Troy. You just come along too early.
    TROY: 78267There ought not never have been no time called too early! Now you take that fellow . . . what's that fellow they had laying right field for the Yankees back then? You know who I'm talking about, Bono. Used to play right field for the Yankees.
    ROSE: Selkirk?
    TROY: Selkirk! That's it! Man batting. 269, understand? 269. What kind of sense that make? I was hitting. 432 with thirty-seven home runs! Man batting. 269 and playing right field for the Yankees! I saw Josh Gibson's* daughter yesterday. She walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet. Now I bet you Selkirk's daughter ain't walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet! I bet you that!
    ROSS: They got a lot of colored baseball players now. Jackie Robinson was the first. Folks had to wait for Jackie Robinson.
    TROY: I done seen a hundred niggers play baseball better than Jackie Robinson. Hell, I know some teams Jackie Robinson couldn't even make! Jackie Robinson wasn't nobody. I'm talking about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don't care what color you were. Come telling me  I come along to early. If you could play ...then they ought to have let you play. (Troy takes a long drink from the bottle.)
    ROSE: You gonna drink yourself to death. You don't need to be drinking like that.
    TROY: Death ain't nothing. I done seen him. Done wrastled with him. You can't tell me nothing about death. Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. And you know what I'll do to that! Lookee here, Bono . . . am I lying? You get one of them fastballs, about waist height, over the outside corner of the plate where you can get the meat of the bat on it . . . and good god! You can kiss it goodbye. Now, am I lying?
    BONO: Now, you telling the truth there. I see you do it.
    TROY: If I''m lying . . . that 450 feet worth of lying! (Pause.) That's all death is to me. A fastball on the outside corner.
    ROE: I don't know why you want to get on talking about death.
    TROY: Ain't nothing wrong with talking about death. That's part of life. Everybody gonna die. You gonna die, I'm gonna die. Bono's gonna die. Hell, we all gonna die.

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    From the passage, it can be inferred that Troy and Bono are ________.
    Solution
    The correct answer would be option C. Troy comments, almost critiques Bono about his playing method, proving that he had seen the later play, and talks of his game on its way to decline. The latter part suggests that Bono is playing still. Thus, it can be proved that they are players from different generations. The statements of options A,B,D and E are not supported by the text, and as such, are incorrect.  
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    In the second year of the reign of Valentinian and Valens, on the morning of the twenty-first day of July, the greatest part of the Roman world was shaken by a violent and destructive earthquake. 68146The impression was communicated to the waters53087; the shores of the Mediterranean were left dry, by the sudden retreat of the sea; 79737great quantities of fish were caught with the hand; large vessels were stranded on the mud; and 55567a curious spectator amused his eye, or rather his fancy, by contemplating the various appearance of valleys and mountains, which had never, since the formation of the globe, been exposed to the sun.31229 
    23078But the tide soon returned, with the weight of an immense and irresistible deluge, which was severely felt27450 on the coasts of Sicily, of Dalmatia, of Greece, and of Egypt: large boats were transported, and lodged on the roofs of houses, or at the distance of two miles from the shore; the people, with their habitations, were swept away by the waters; and 24201the city of Alexandria annually commemorated the fatal day, on which fifty thousand persons had lost their lives in the inundation.19659
    This calamity, the report of which was magnified from one province to another, astonished and terrified the subjects of Rome; and their affrighted imagination enlarged the real extent of a momentary evil. They recollected the preceding earthquakes, which had subverted the cities of Palestine and Bithynia: 37755they considered these alarming strokes as the prelude only of still more dreadful calamities54003, and their fearful vanity was disposed to confound the symptoms of a 90364declining empire and a sinking world.

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    Which of the following quotes best describes the reason the Romans were so frightened by the earthquake?
    Solution
    "they considered these alarming strokes as the prelude only of still more dreadful calamities" - this quote from the passage aptly describes the fear of the Romans. This violent earthquake so scared the Romans that they started recalling earlier earthquakes which had forever changed the cities of Palestine and Bithynia and they started believing that this earthquake was just the beginning and that many more such calamities were not far away. In this context, only option A can be the correct answer. The other options are incorrect as they are not relevant to the context.
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             "Blue Girls"
    Twirling your blue skirts, travelling the sward
    Under the towers of your seminary,
    Go listen to your teachers old and contrary
    Without believing a word.
    Tie the white fillets then about your hair
    And think no more of what will come to pass
    Than bluebirds that go walking on the grass
    And chattering on the air.
    Practice your beauty, blue girls, before it fail;
    And I will cry with my loud lips and publish
    Beauty which all our power shall never establish,
    It is so frail.
    For I could tell you a story which is true;
    I know a woman with a terrible tongue,
    Blear eyes fallen from blue,
    All her perfections tarnished - yet it is not long
    Since she was lovelier than any of you.

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    What kind of a story can the poet tell them?
    Solution
    The poet wishes to tell them a true story. We can get this from the line "For I could tell you a story which is true". So option A is the correct answer. 
    Options B,C,D,E are incorrect.
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    ROSE: Time have changed since you was playing baseball, Troy. That was before the war. Times have changed a lot since then.
    TROY: How in hell they done changed?
    ROSE: They got lots of colored boys playing ball now. Baseball and football.
    BONO: You right about that, Rose. Times have changed, Troy. You just come along too early.
    TROY: 78267There ought not never have been no time called too early! Now you take that fellow . . . what's that fellow they had laying right field for the Yankees back then? You know who I'm talking about, Bono. Used to play right field for the Yankees.
    ROSE: Selkirk?
    TROY: Selkirk! That's it! Man batting. 269, understand? 269. What kind of sense that make? I was hitting. 432 with thirty-seven home runs! Man batting. 269 and playing right field for the Yankees! I saw Josh Gibson's* daughter yesterday. She walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet. Now I bet you Selkirk's daughter ain't walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet! I bet you that!
    ROSS: They got a lot of colored baseball players now. Jackie Robinson was the first. Folks had to wait for Jackie Robinson.
    TROY: I done seen a hundred niggers play baseball better than Jackie Robinson. Hell, I know some teams Jackie Robinson couldn't even make! Jackie Robinson wasn't nobody. I'm talking about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don't care what color you were. Come telling me  I come along to early. If you could play ...then they ought to have let you play. (Troy takes a long drink from the bottle.)
    ROSE: You gonna drink yourself to death. You don't need to be drinking like that.
    TROY: Death ain't nothing. I done seen him. Done wrastled with him. You can't tell me nothing about death. Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. And you know what I'll do to that! Lookee here, Bono . . . am I lying? You get one of them fastballs, about waist height, over the outside corner of the plate where you can get the meat of the bat on it . . . and good god! You can kiss it goodbye. Now, am I lying?
    BONO: Now, you telling the truth there. I see you do it.
    TROY: If I''m lying . . . that 450 feet worth of lying! (Pause.) That's all death is to me. A fastball on the outside corner.
    ROE: I don't know why you want to get on talking about death.
    TROY: Ain't nothing wrong with talking about death. That's part of life. Everybody gonna die. You gonna die, I'm gonna die. Bono's gonna die. Hell, we all gonna die.

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    Which of the following best expresses the meaning of Troy's statement that "there ought not never have been no time called too early!" (line 78267)
    Solution
    Option B is the correct answer. Troy comments society's inability to evolve in time and accept the various social flaws and changes. Troy had been informed of racial integration in the world of sports, which he feels to be unfair for it did not happen in his time. The statements of options A,C,D and E are not coherent with the quotation in question and, thus, are incorrect.
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    ROSE: Time have changed since you was playing baseball, Troy. That was before the war. Times have changed a lot since then.
    TROY: How in hell they done changed?
    ROSE: They got lots of colored boys playing ball now. Baseball and football.
    BONO: You right about that, Rose. Times have changed, Troy. You just come along too early.
    TROY: 78267There ought not never have been no time called too early! Now you take that fellow . . . what's that fellow they had laying right field for the Yankees back then? You know who I'm talking about, Bono. Used to play right field for the Yankees.
    ROSE: Selkirk?
    TROY: Selkirk! That's it! Man batting. 269, understand? 269. What kind of sense that make? I was hitting. 432 with thirty-seven home runs! Man batting. 269 and playing right field for the Yankees! I saw Josh Gibson's* daughter yesterday. She walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet. Now I bet you Selkirk's daughter ain't walking around with raggedy shoes on her feet! I bet you that!
    ROSS: They got a lot of colored baseball players now. Jackie Robinson was the first. Folks had to wait for Jackie Robinson.
    TROY: I done seen a hundred niggers play baseball better than Jackie Robinson. Hell, I know some teams Jackie Robinson couldn't even make! Jackie Robinson wasn't nobody. I'm talking about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don't care what color you were. Come telling me  I come along to early. If you could play ...then they ought to have let you play. (Troy takes a long drink from the bottle.)
    ROSE: You gonna drink yourself to death. You don't need to be drinking like that.
    TROY: Death ain't nothing. I done seen him. Done wrastled with him. You can't tell me nothing about death. Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. And you know what I'll do to that! Lookee here, Bono . . . am I lying? You get one of them fastballs, about waist height, over the outside corner of the plate where you can get the meat of the bat on it . . . and good god! You can kiss it goodbye. Now, am I lying?
    BONO: Now, you telling the truth there. I see you do it.
    TROY: If I''m lying . . . that 450 feet worth of lying! (Pause.) That's all death is to me. A fastball on the outside corner.
    ROE: I don't know why you want to get on talking about death.
    TROY: Ain't nothing wrong with talking about death. That's part of life. Everybody gonna die. You gonna die, I'm gonna die. Bono's gonna die. Hell, we all gonna die.

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    Troy's tone in lamenting the injustice of his baseball career is one of ______.
    Solution
    Option C, lingering resentment, is the correct answer. Troy is vocal about his feelings towards the game, his lost opportunities, and the changes the game has gone, none of which he thinks is for the power. There is no indication in the text of him exhibiting the sentiments enumerated in options A,B,D and E. Hence, the other options are incorrect in this context. 
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