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Piccadilly Circus was full of loneliness.It seethes and echoes with it. To live near it. Looking down on it is a discomforting exercise. You can't feel the pulse of London here, though people expect to. To Londoners it is a maddening obstruction between one place and another, and few voluntarily linger there. The only locals are those who live off the lingerers; the lingerers are primarily sightseers, with a fair sprinkling of people hoping to draw attention to themselves - both typically from the provinces. They have come to see the heart of London and expect to see spectacle, glamour and vice.

37891.Piccadilly circus is
the name of a circus company
a lonely and resounding old building
a centrally located area in London
a huge heap of ruins
37892.The passage implies that
some Londoners love to spend their time near the Piccadilly circus
no Londoner wants to be in Piccadilly circus
Piccadilly circus is a hazardous place
Piccadilly circus is place of vice
37893.According to this passage, people from outside London go to Piccadilly circus because it is
a historical place
full of glamour
full of exciting people
the pulse of London
37894.For those who live near Piccadilly circus, it is
a very noisy place
crowded with people
an obstruction to traffic
an awkward structure
37895.The lingerers found in Piccadilly circus are mainly
the citizens of London
sightseers from provincial areas of Britain
people who want to show off
local idlers

Today perhaps your only association with the word 'polio' is the Sabin Oral Vaccine that protects children from the disease. Fifty five years ago this was not so. The dreaded disease, which mainly affects the brain ans spinal cord, causing stiffening and weakening of muscles, crippling and paralysis - which is Why I am in a wheelchair today. If somebody had predicted, when I was born, that this would happen to me, no one would have believed it. I was seventh child in a family of four pairs of brothers and sisters, with huge 23 year gap between the first and last. I was so fair and brown haired that I looked more look like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood.

37896.In his childhood, the narrator was
a weakling
very healthy
tall and slim
short and stout
37897.In this passage, the word brood refers to
polio victims
foreign children
children in the family
Indian Children
37898.The narrator was the seventh child in a family of
8 children
16 children
23 children
4 children
37899.In this passage, the narrator is a patient of
heart disease
polio
paralysis
nervous weakness
37900.In his childhood, the narrator looked "more like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri" This was because he was
a foreign child
a very healthy boy
tell and smart
fair and brown haired
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