Question

(i) a contrast between the third ship and the other two ships
(ii) description of the appearance of the hunting snake
READING COMPREHENSION (UNSEEN)
2 Read the following passage and answer the questions given below :
Mr. Oliver, an Anglo-Indian teacher, was returning to his school late one night, on the outskirts
of the hill station of Simla. From before Kipling's time, the school had been run on English Public
school lines; and the boys, most of them from wealthy Indian families, wore blazers, caps and ties.
Life magazine, in a feature on India, had once called it the 'Eton of the East. Mr. Oliver had been
teaching in the school for several years.
The Simla Bazaar, with its cinemas and restaurants, was about three miles from the school, and
Mr. Oliver, a bachelor, usually strolled into the town in the evening, returning after dark, when he
would take a short cut through the pine forest. When there was a strong wind, the pine trees made
sad, eerie sounds that kept most people to the main road. But Mr. Oliver was not a nervous or
imaginative man. He carried a torch, and its gleam—the batteries were running down-moved fitfully
down the narrow forest path. When its flickering light fell on the figure of a boy, who was sitting
alone on a rock, Mr. Oliver stopped. Boys were not supposed to be out after dark.
“What are you doing out here, boy?” asked Mr. Oliver sharply, moving closer so that he could
recognize the miscreant. But even as he approached the boy, Mr. Oliver sensed that something was
wrong. The boy appeared to be crying. His head hung down, he held his face in his hands, and
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