MAT 2018

Study the situation given below to answer these questions.

Dilip Kumar’s train was late and it reached Mumbai a little after midnight. It was his first visit to the city and he did not know where to go. He thought he would go to a choultry where he would not have to pay rent, but he did not know how find one at that hour. He asked a porter to get him a cheap room. The porter asked him for fifty rupees to take him one. But Dilip Kumar waved him away and walked out of the station. He wandered through the streets and asked a number of people, but could not find a room cheap enough for him.

He sat down on a park bench to think of what he should do next. He was very tired and fell asleep on the bench. He voke up the next morning stiff in every limb, but he smiled when he realised that it was the cheapest night’s lodging that he had ever had.

Study the situation given below to answer these questions.

When my wife, son and I were travelling in a rented car through Paris on our way to a cousin’s home in the northern suburbs, I became thoroughly confused by the maze of circular and one way streets. Finally, we spotted a policeman and pulled up to ask directions. We were surprised when he removed his tall helmet, opened the back door and slid in beside our son. ‘‘It will be much easier to show you’’, he explained.

Off we went through a series of left and right turns, traffic lights and even a short jaunt up a one-way lane the wrong way. Twenty minutes later we arrived at a main interesection. ‘‘Now you will be all right’’, announced our guide. ‘‘Just turn here, stay on the road for eight or nine kilometers, and you are there’’. With that he opened the door, got out, replaced his helmet and strode briskly off.