SSC CGL Tier-2 Paper-1 English Sectional Mock Test 04

1. Meera had driven the same battered jeep across the sand for eleven years, and every village on her route knew the sound of its engine. The jeep carried no goods for sale. Its back was fitted with wooden shelves, and on those shelves sat nearly four hundred books - storybooks, school textbooks, old magazines and a small set of atlases whose pages were soft with use. Meera called it a library on wheels. In the village of Khuri, children ran to meet her before the jeep had even stopped. They borrowed books for a week and returned them with the corners folded at the pages they liked best. Old men borrowed newspapers and read them aloud under the neem tree, arguing over every headline. Meera never charged a fee. 'A book that stays on a shelf is only paper,' she used to say. 'A book that travels becomes a neighbour.' When the rains failed one year and several families left the village to find work, Meera drove further than usual to reach them at the roadside camps. She found that the children there had kept her books safe in plastic bags, tied to the poles of their tents. That evening, sitting beside a small fire, she read them a story about a desert fox. The children listened without moving. Later, when Meera wrote about that evening in her diary, she said it was the finest library she had ever run - one with no walls, no roof and no closing time.

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

   • A.A jeep driver earns money by selling books in desert villages.
   • B.A travelling library brings books to remote villages and becomes part of their life.
   • C.Children in Khuri love to fold the corners of books.
   • D.The rains failed and families left Khuri to find work.

2. Q2.Why did children run to meet Meera?

   • A.They wanted to buy newspapers.
   • B.They wanted to ride in the jeep.
   • C.They wanted to hear the engine.
   • D.They wanted to borrow books from her jeep.

3. Q3.What did the children do with the books they borrowed?

   • A.They sold them in the market.
   • B.They kept them in plastic bags at the camps.
   • C.They returned them with corners folded at favourite pages.
   • D.They gave them to the old men.

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