CTET Paper 1 · English-CTET

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options: 1. My love of traveling and living in the exhilaration of the moment backfired, and I had to backtrack from the magnificent banks of the Ganges in the holy city of Hardwar, back down to Delhi to try and find a new route out of India. 2. Arriving into Delhi in the afternoon, I scrambled around to find a bite to eat before sundown. I found a small restaurant near my hostel, but after a few bites of putrid, rotten flavoured chicken I had a bad feeling and left, meal unfinished, to try get an early night. 3. But it was already too late. All it took was a few bites. The next morning I was up early and headed to the bus stop before sunrise, thankful to have a last-minute ticket on a long distance bus to Kathmandu. The dirty, rickety old bus left from a dusty underpass – not a bus stop or station in site. It was full of upright seats with nowhere to recline and rest for the massive 26-hour journey ahead. 4. I was eight hours into a long windy journey through lush jungle when the food poisoning took hold. Without warning, I began violently vomiting - mostly into a bag I had, but also all over myself and my seat. 5. Despite this being one of my more embarrassing travel stories, it wasn't long before most of the other passengers were mad at me because the air conditioning wouldn't work with the windows up. 6. But I had nowhere else to be sick; there were no buckets, trash cans, or bags that could hold my relentless evacuation of what felt like everything I'd ever eaten. There were only two other foreigners on the bus; women who offered me sips of water and medicine. I was sick, sticky and drifting in and out of feverish dreams for the next 18 hours until I was able to get to a hospital in Nepal. We passed through magnificent valleys through the Himalayas, I saw fireflies for the first time we passed picturesque towns and tiger sanctuaries. 7. Despite being the sickest I've ever felt, in the most inconvenient of locations, I was constantly amazed by the beauty of India, and the kindness of the strangers I met along the way. Question: The food served to the narrator was

  1. too spicy.
  2. tasteless.
  3. rotten.
  4. unhygienic.
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