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Directions (96-100) : In these questions, you have a passage With 5 questions following. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
As I stepped out of the train I felt unusually solitary since I was the only passenger to alight. I was accustomed to arriving in the summer, when holiday-makers throng coastal resorts and this was my first visit when the season was over. My destination was a little village which was eight miles by road. It took only a few minutes for me to come to the foot of the cliff path. When I reached the top I had left all signs of habitation behind me. I was surprised to notice that the sky was already aflame with the sunset. It seemed to be getting dark amazingly quickly. I was at a loss to account for the exceptionally early end of daylight since I did not think I had walked unduly slowly. Then I recollected that on previous visits I had walked in high summer and now it was October. All at Once it was night. The track was grassy and even in daylight showed up hardly at all. I was terrified of hurtling over the edge 0f the cliff to the rocks below. I felt my feet squelching and sticking in something soggy. Then I bumped into a little clump 0f trees that loomed up in front of me, I climbed up the nearest trunk and managed to find a tolerably comfortable fork to sit on. The waiting was spent by my attempts to identify the little stirring and noises of animal life that, could hear. I grew colder and colder and managed to sleep only in uneasy fitful starts. At last when the moon came up I was on my way again.

When he settled himself on the fork of the tree the writer .......


A) had a sound sleep

B) was disturbedby noses of animals

C) was too afraid to sleep

D) tried to sleep but Without much success.

Correct Answer:
D) tried to sleep but Without much success.


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