CTET Solved Paper - CTET Feburary 2016 Paper2

DIRECTIONS (Q. Nos. 91-99) Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct / most appropriate options.

When the Sun had descended on the other side of the narrow strip of land, and a day of sunshine was followed by a night without twilight, the new lighthouse keeper was in his place evidently, for the lighthouse was casting its bright rays on the water as usual. The night was perfectly calm, silent, genuinely tropical, filled with a transparent haze, forming around the Moon a great coloured rainbow with soft, unbroken edges; the sea was moving only because the tide raised it.

The keeper on the balcony seemed from below like a small black point. He tried to collect his thoughts and take in his new position, but his mind was under too much pressure to move with regularity. He felt somewhat as a hurt beast feels when at last it has found refuge from pursuit on some inaccessible rock or in a cave. Now on that rock he can simply laugh at his previous wanderings, his misfortunes and failures. He was in truth like a ship whose masts, ropes and sails had been broken and rent by a tempest and might have been cast to the bottom of the sea, a ship on which the tempest had hurled waves and spat foam, but which still wound its way to the harbour.

The pictures of that storm passed quickly through his mind as he compared it with the calm future now beginning. Part of his wonderful adventures he had related to Mr. Shyam when he was interviewed for the job of the keeper; he had not mentioned, however, thousands of other incidents. It has been his misfortune that as often as he pitched his tent and fixed his fireplace to settle down permanently, some wind tore the stakes of his tent, whirled away the first and bore him on towards destruction.

Looking now from the balcony at the Lower of the illuminated waves, he remembered everything through which he had passed. He had campaigned In the four parts of the world and in wandering had tried almost every occupation.