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Directions for Questions 1 – 10:
Read the passage given below and answer the following questions.
Life had changed for me. I never realized it. Moonlit walk changed into late night strategy workshops. Candlelit dinners turned into business meetings. Sweet and short phone calls with my wife transformed into late -hour teleconferences. Gifts were no more priority as there should be some tangible return for whatever we invest, after all. Spending even $5 on the bouquet for the Valentine’s Day seemed meaningless; you would lose at least half an hour searching for a parking space in the downtown.
Overall there was no respite from the hectic schedule of office and future planning work. Whenever she, in a very mild attempt, tried to express her feelings, I had pre - defined answer, ‘these all are for us only, darling’ and she used to be quiet for another month or so. Recently, I had to go to Holland on a business trip for a week. I was working on an important assignment. I didn’t have even five minutes to talk to my parents who travelled more than fifteen hundred miles just to meet us. I called her to inform that I had to leave that evening. It was not new to her. It happened on many such times, and every time, in the evening, I found her standing at the door, smiling, with my suitcase packed with all the necessary stuff.
I checked in to Crown Inn in Eindhoven. It was 3 PM. I wanted to rehearse my presentation before I met the senior management. I was sure she would have kept the file in the suitcase. In past, she never missed what I needed, never ever. But I could not control my anger. I opened my leather cased Samsonite and the file was not there!!!
I took out or rather threw clothes one by one on cosy floor of Crown Inn. ‘Here it is ’ phewwww… what a relief. I knew she never missed even the smallest of details. I opened the file. There was something other than what I was looking for, a pink envelope, something similar to what we used to exchange, a long time ago, before our marriage .
English Language (30 Questions)
Directions for Questions 1 – 10:
Read the passage given below and answer the following questions.
Life had changed for me. I never realized it. Moonlit walk changed into late night strategy workshops. Candlelit dinners turned into business meetings. Sweet and short phone calls with my wife transformed into late -hour teleconferences. Gifts were no more priority as there should be some tangible return for whatever we invest, after all. Spending even $5 on the bouquet for the Valentine’s Day seemed meaningless; you would lose at least half an hour searching for a parking space in the downtown.
Overall there was no respite from the hectic schedule of office and future planning work. Whenever she, in a very mild attempt, tried to express her feelings, I had pre - defined answer, ‘these all are for us only, darling’ and she used to be quiet for another month or so. Recently, I had to go to Holland on a business trip for a week. I was working on an important assignment. I didn’t have even five minutes to talk to my parents who travelled more than fifteen hundred miles just to meet us. I called her to inform that I had to leave that evening. It was not new to her. It happened on many such times, and every time, in the evening, I found her standing at the door, smiling, with my suitcase packed with all the necessary stuff.
I checked in to Crown Inn in Eindhoven. It was 3 PM. I wanted to rehearse my presentation before I met the senior management. I was sure she would have kept the file in the suitcase. In past, she never missed what I needed, never ever. But I could not control my anger. I opened my leather cased Samsonite and the file was not there!!!
I took out or rather threw clothes one by one on cosy floor of Crown Inn. ‘Here it is ’ phewwww… what a relief. I knew she never missed even the smallest of details. I opened the file. There was something other than what I was looking for, a pink envelope, something similar to what we used to exchange, a long time ago, before our marriage .
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