CTET Paper I (Classes I to V) 16 Dec 2021 Solved Paper

Question Numbers: 129-135Direction: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options.1. I think it was really my love of walking that first took me to the hills, and then kept me there for two decades. It had become increasingly difficult for me to walk about in Delhi, and I resented this, because I had been walking about in Delhi before most of my readers were born. As a youth I walked from Connaught Place to Humayun Tomb, and from Paharganj to Pusa and although as the years passed I still covered these distances occasionally, It was no longer a pleasurable activity. Rather it become an obstacle race, an exercise in survival.2. Now whenever I visit Delhi, I do not even try covering long distances. Even crossing a road is something of a feat for me. Usually I wedge myself between two well- built women and cross over in their company. No Maruti owner would risk damage to his car by colliding with me.3. But being a compulsive walker, I stay out of Delhi as much as possible and do most of walking in the hills. Even hill stations are congested these days, but as I live on the outskirts of one, I have no difficulty in marching off for a few miles with only myself and a circling eagle for company. Here too, motor roads have multiplied But it is possible to leave them at will, taking any old path that leads through fields of maize or mustard, or through oak and rhododendron forest, until a village is reached.4. Here there is always hospitality if you are not the arrogant or fastidious sort. And occasionally you might come across a mountain stream where you can rest on a bed of ferns. And if there is no stream, you will eventually find a spring, perhaps a mere trickle of water but welcome all the same. Some springs dried up last year when the rains failed. Let us hope for the sake of bird and beast and thirsty trekker that it rains this winter.