SSC CGL Tier-2 Paper-1 English Sectional Mock Test 01

1. When the road finally reached Karmi village, the first thing it brought was a bus, and the second was the news that the post office would close. Dev Bahadur had carried letters over the mountain pass for thirty-one years, and he could not imagine a morning without the weight of the mailbag on his shoulder. The young officer from the town explained that nobody wrote letters any more, that a message now travelled in a second, and that the little stone building would be turned into a store room. Dev Bahadur listened politely and then asked for one more week. In that week he walked to every house in the village, as he had always done, but this time he carried a notebook instead of letters. He asked each family to write down one message they wished they had sent - to a son working in the city, to a mother who had died ten years earlier, to a friend lost after the earthquake. On the last day of the week, he read the messages aloud in the village square, and the officer, who had come to lock the building, stood listening with the keys still in his hand. The post office did not close. It became a reading room, and Dev Bahadur became its keeper, opening it every morning at seven, exactly as before.

   Q1.Which of the following best expresses the central idea of the passage?

   • A.Dev Bahadur retired after thirty-one years and left the village.
   • B.The young officer was determined to turn the post office into a store room.
   • C.A postman's final week of work saved the village post office by reminding people of the value of written messages.
   • D.The arrival of a bus made the post office unnecessary in Karmi village.

2. Q2.Why did the officer plan to close the post office?

   • A.Because he believed nobody wrote letters any more and messages now travelled in seconds.
   • B.Because the bus service had stopped.
   • C.Because Dev Bahadur had asked to retire.
   • D.Because the building was damaged by the earthquake.

3. Q3.What did Dev Bahadur carry during his last week instead of letters?

   • A.A notebook in which families wrote down unsent messages.
   • B.A bus timetable.
   • C.Messages from the town officer.
   • D.The keys to the post office.

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