IBPS RRB Office Assistant 26 Sep 2015 Paper

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Directions (166–175) : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrases have been given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
One evening, a man carrying a can of milk stopped Mullah Nasruddin in the street and said he had a problem and wanted his advice.
“What’s your problem?” asked Nasruddin. “My problem is that though I never drink wine but I feel intoxicated and drunk when I get up in the morning,” explained the man.
“What do you drink last thing at night?” asked Nasruddin, eyeing the milk can in his hand. “Milk” the man replied.
“Just as I thought,” said Nasruddin . “That is the cause of your problem.”
“Milk causes intoxication?” asked the man, astonished.
“It is like this,” explained the Mullah. “You drink the milk and go to sleep. You toss around in your sleep. The milk gets churned. It turns into butter. Butter churned, turns into cheese. Cheese turns to fat. Fat into sugar.Sugar into alco- hol. So you wake up with alcohol in your stomach. That is why you feel intoxicated in the morning.”
“So what do I do?” asked the man, bewildered.
“Simple. Don’t drink the milk,” said Nasruddin . “Here, give it to me.”
And taking the milk can from the man, Nasruddin walked away, leaving the man gaping.
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