Read the following passage and answer the given questions that follow: One bright June morning when I was nineteen, I packed all I had on to my back, but my native village, and walked up to London looking for gold and glory. That was more than fifteen years ago, and I have been here ever since. I shall probably stay here for the rest of my life. Yet in spite of all that I still cannot think of myself as a Londoner, nor ever will, nor ever went to For fifteen years I have lived in the flats, rooms and garrets of this city, the drawers of the human filing cabinets that stand in blank rows down the streets of Kensington and Notting Hill. Questions: (two marks each) 1. Why did the writer leave his village to go to London? 2. When does he plan to go back to his village? 3. What does he mean by human filing cabinets? Why doesn’t he mention houses? 4. What is the passage about?
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Answer:One bright June morning when I was nineteen, I packed all I had on to my back, but my native village, and walked up to London looking for gold and glory for the first question
In June and when he was of nineteen years answer for the second question
He means that the cabinets were as big as a human in a human can be fitted answer for the third question
The passage is about an author who wants to leave the busy life of a city and want to go to his native place answer for the fourth question
hey mate here is your answers :
ans1) the writer went to London in search of gold and glory and it has been a long time since he has gone there.
ans2) he does not go to the village back as he decides to probably stay there for rest of his life.
ans3) Here the human filling cabinets are the house standing in rows..
he doesn't mention them as houses as it has been a long time since he has not came here.
ans4) the passage is about a boy visiting London after 15 years as he stayed in a village and after seeing the atmosphere there he feels some difference and decides to stay there for the rest of his life.
hope this helps you
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neha