UPSC Prelims 2012·CSAT·Reading Comprehension·Passage Comprehension

निम्नलिखित गद्यांशों को पढ़िए और प्रत्येक गद्यांश के बाद दिए गए प्रश्नों के उत्तर दीजिए। इन प्रश्नों के आपके उत्तर केवल गद्यांशों पर ही आधारित होने चाहिए। We started pitching the highest camp that has ever been made. Everything took five times as long as it would have taken in a place where there was enough air to breathe; but at last we got the tent up, and when we crawled in, it was not too bad. There was only a light wind, and inside it was not too cold for us to take off our gloves. At night most climbers take off their boots; but I prefer to keep them on. Hillary, on the other hand, took his off and laid them next to his sleeping bag. What does the expression "pitching the highest camp" imply?

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  1. AThey reached the summit of the highest mountain in the world
  2. BThose who climbed that far earlier did not pitch any camp
  3. CSo far nobody has ever climbed that highCorrect
  4. DThey were too many climbers and needed to pitch a big camp.

Explanation

सही उत्तर C है। वाक्यांश "सबसे ऊँचा शिविर लगाना" का अर्थ है कि उस ऊँचाई पर पहले किसी ने शिविर नहीं लगाया था। यह एक उपलब्धि को दर्शाता है, न कि किसी और शिविर के साथ तुलना। इसलिए सही व्याख्या यह है कि उन्होंने एक नई ऊँचाई पर शिविर स्थापित किया।
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