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Read the passage givenbelow and answer the questions that follow by selecting thecorrect/most appropriate options.
When the Sun had descended on the other side of the narrowstrip of land, and a day of sunshine was followed by a nightwithout twilight, the new lighthouse keeper was in his placeevidently, for the lighthouse was casting its bright rays on thewater as usual. The night was perfectly calm, silent, genuinelytropical, filled with a transparent haze, forming around theMoon a great coloured rainbow with soft, unbroken edges; thesea was moving only because the tide raised it.
The keeper on the balcony seemed from below like a smallblack point. He tried to collect his thoughts and take in his newposition; but his mind was under too much pressure to movewith regularity. He felt somewhat as a hunted beast feels whenat last it has found refuge from pursuit on some inaccessiblerock or in a cave. Now on that rock he can simply laugh at hisprevious wanderings, his misfortunes and failures. He was intruth like a ship whose masts, ropes and sails had been brokenand rent by a tempest and might have been cast to the bottomof the sea, a ship on which the tempest had hurled waves andspat foam, but which still wound its way to the harbour.
The pictures of that storm passed quickly through hismind as he compared it with the calm future now beginning.Part of his wonderful adventures he had related to Mr. Shyamwhen he was interviewed for the job of the keeper; he had notmentioned however, thousands of other incidents. It had beenhis misfortune that as often as he pitched his tent and fixed hisfireplace to settle down permanently, some wind tore out thestakes of his tent, whirled away the fire and bore him ontowards destruction.
Looking now from the balcony of the tower at theilluminated waves, he remembered everything through which hehad passed. He had campaigned in the four parts of the worldand in wandering had tried almost every occupation.
Read the passage givenbelow and answer the questions that follow by selecting thecorrect/most appropriate options.
When the Sun had descended on the other side of the narrowstrip of land, and a day of sunshine was followed by a nightwithout twilight, the new lighthouse keeper was in his placeevidently, for the lighthouse was casting its bright rays on thewater as usual. The night was perfectly calm, silent, genuinelytropical, filled with a transparent haze, forming around theMoon a great coloured rainbow with soft, unbroken edges; thesea was moving only because the tide raised it.
The keeper on the balcony seemed from below like a smallblack point. He tried to collect his thoughts and take in his newposition; but his mind was under too much pressure to movewith regularity. He felt somewhat as a hunted beast feels whenat last it has found refuge from pursuit on some inaccessiblerock or in a cave. Now on that rock he can simply laugh at hisprevious wanderings, his misfortunes and failures. He was intruth like a ship whose masts, ropes and sails had been brokenand rent by a tempest and might have been cast to the bottomof the sea, a ship on which the tempest had hurled waves andspat foam, but which still wound its way to the harbour.
The pictures of that storm passed quickly through hismind as he compared it with the calm future now beginning.Part of his wonderful adventures he had related to Mr. Shyamwhen he was interviewed for the job of the keeper; he had notmentioned however, thousands of other incidents. It had beenhis misfortune that as often as he pitched his tent and fixed hisfireplace to settle down permanently, some wind tore out thestakes of his tent, whirled away the fire and bore him ontowards destruction.
Looking now from the balcony of the tower at theilluminated waves, he remembered everything through which hehad passed. He had campaigned in the four parts of the worldand in wandering had tried almost every occupation.
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