Bank Of India Clerk Question Paper 2011: English Language

Directions-(Q. 1-15) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or may be a month before the orphanage turned me into an old man.

I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.

After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies that lived by the hundreds in the bushes strewn around the orphanage.

I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after the other, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet.How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes, all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so I could look at them up close.

When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who he had just pinned to the large paper.It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out. It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin. Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just quivered.

I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on its wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could flyaway and be free before the house parent came back. But it would not stay on him. The next thing I knew the house parent came walking back out of the back door by the garbage room and started yelling at me.I told him that I did not do anything but he did not believeme.He picked up the cardboard paper and started hitting me on the top of the head. There were all kinds of butterfly pieces going everywhere. He threw the cardboard down on the ground and told me to pick it up and put it in the garbage can inside the back room of the dormitory and then he left.

I sat there in the dirt, by that big old tree, for the longest time trying to fit all the butterfly pieces back together so I could bury them whole, but it was too hard to do.So I prayed for them and then I put them in an old torn up shoe box and I buried them in the bottom of the fort that I had built in the ground, out by the large bamboos, near the blackberry bushes.

Every year when the butterflies would return to the orphanage and try to land on me I would try and shoo them away because they did not know that the orphanage was a bad place to live and a very bad place to die.

1. Why had the author walked into the bushes many times?

(A) So that he could save the butterflies

(B) So that the butterflies could  sit on his head, face and hands

(C) So that he could give the butterflies to the house parent

(D) So that he could kill the butterflies

(E) None of these

Ans: (A)

2. In the passage what has the author compared the orphanage to ?

(A) An educational institute

(B) An old age home

(C) A nursery

(D) A military school

(E) None of these

Ans: (D)

3. Which of the following words can be used to describe the author?

(A) Cruel

(B) Adventurous

(C) Daring

(D) Caring

(E) None of these

Ans: (E)

4. Why did the butterfly's wing break off ?

(A) Because the house parent had broken it

(B) Because the author broke one wing

(C) Because one of its wings was still pinned to the cardboard and it tried to flyaway

(D) Because the butterfly fell on the ground

(E) None of these

Ans: (C)

5. What did the author do with all the butterfly pieces?

(A) He stuck all the pieces together

(B) He put them in a shoe box and buried them in the ground

(C) He gave them away to the house parent

(D) He threw them away in the garbage can.

(E) None of these

Ans: (B)

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