Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow, (5 marks)
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I was overwhelmed with gratuitous advice. Well-meaning yet ignorant friends thrust
their opinions into unwilling ear. The majority of them said I couldn't do without meat
in the cold climate. I would catch consumption Mr Z went to England and caught it on
count of his toolbardiness. Others said I might do without flesh but without wine !
could not move. I would be numbed with cold. One went solar as to advise me to take
eight bottles of whisky, for I should want them after leaving Aden. Another wanted me
to smoke, for his friend was obliged to smoke in England Even medical men, those who
had been to England told the same tale. I replied that I would try my best to avoid all
these things, but if they were found to be absolutely notary I did not know what to
do I may here mention that my version to meat was not so strong then as it is now. I
an even betrayed into taking meat about six or seven times at the period when I allowed
my friends to think for me But in the steamer, my ideas began to change I thought I
should not take meat on any account. My mother, before consenting to my departure,
had exited a promise from me not to take meat. So, I was bornuand not take it, if only
for the wake of the promise The fellow passengers in the met
the friend who was with me and myseln to un
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1. What advice was offered to Gandhiji by his friends?
2. What adviee did Gandhiji receive as regards wine and whisky?
3. What tale did medical men who had been to England, tell Gandhiji?
4. What promise did Gandhiji's mother take from him before he departed for England:
5. Pick out one word from the passage which means the same as "dislike
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1) his friend was to bring wine and whisky
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