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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below :What do you think of the man who eats a banana in front of a shop and gaily throws the skin on the road? He is a pest indeed but perhaps not quite a match for the man or woman who slips into your garden very early in the morning before your are awake. All the roses that you have tried so hard to produce are picked and put away in a basket in a trice. When you step into the garden to feast your eyes on your roses, they are just not there! The worst pest, however, is the man who lives next door and celebrates the marriage of his daughters once every two months till all the six girls are married off.This monster hires loudspeakers which shriek away from very early in morning till late at night. At that volume music simply ceases to be music and becomes a shrill stream of noise that shatters your ear – drums and tears your nerves apart. Nobody who has been forced to endure this for a day will ever want another wedding to take place in the locality again.1.What can be the most suitable title of the passage ?(a) Social pests(b) Nuisance makers(c) Anti-social elements(d) none2. What does the man who slips into your garden want the flowers for ?3. Who are the men that have been mentioned as social pests ?4. What does the man who has a number of daughters do ?5. What does ‘pest’ mean?6. What does the sentence. “but perhaps not quite a match for the man” communicate ?

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1. (a) Social pests

2. The man perhaps wants the flowers for selling or personal use or something else.

3. The men mentioned as social pests are the banana-skin thrower, rose – thief and loudspeaker player. They are nuisance makers.

4. He plays the loudspeakers at high volume from very early in morning till late at night.

5. Pest means an annoying person or thing.

6. The sentence communicates that in the speaker’s opinion the man mentioned later was worse than the man mentioned earlier. The word “but’ implies this.



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