CTET Paper II (Social Science) May 2016 Solved Paper

Question Numbers: 91-99Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate options:The task of finding a new lighthouse keeper fell to the commissioner of Malta, and this task was no small one; first, because it was absolutely necessary to find the man within twelve hours; second, the man must be unusually conscientious, - it was not possible, of course, to take the first comer at random; finally, there was an utter lack of candidates. Life on a lighthouse is uncommonly difficult, and by no means enticing to people of the area who love idleness and the freedom of a vagrant life. And a lighthouse keeper is almost a prisoner. He cannot leave his rocky island except on Sundays. A boat from the mainland brings him provisions and water once a day, and returns immediately; on the whole island, one acre in area, there is no inhabitant.The keeper lives in the lighthouse; he keeps it in order. During the day he gives signals by displaying flags of various colours to indicate changes in the barometer; in the evening he lights the lantern. This would be no great labour were it not that to reach the lantern at the summit of the tower he must climb more than four hundred steep and very high steps; sometimes he must make his journey several times during the day. In general, it is the life of a monk, and indeed more than that, - the life of a hermit. It was not wonderful, therefore, that Mr. Koshy was in no small anxiety as to where he should find a permanent successor to the recent keeper; and it is easy to understand his joy when a successor or announced himself most unexpectedly on that very day. He was a man already old, seventy years or more, but fresh, erect, with the movements and bearing of the soldier. His hair was perfectly white, his face sufficiently tanned, but judging from his blue eyes, he did not belong to the people of the area.