Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage II:

An old man with steel-rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes sat by the side of the road. There was a pontoon bridge across the river and carts, trucks, and men, women and children were crossing it. The muledrawn carts staggered up thesteel, bank from the bridge with soldiers helping to push against the spokes of the wheels. The trucks ground up and away heading outofit all. The peasants plodded along in the ankledeep dust. But the old man sat there without moving.