In-course exam: First Year Honors (English).
Reading Comprehension Passage for questions and other
grammar checks: All the qs will be supplied in the exam
Let’s go
some place like Bolivia
The truth is that no part of the beautiful country of
Bolivia looks anything like its portrayal in the film, and quite rightly the
film has been banned here as an offence against national pride, dignity and
honour. But hidden away at the back of our first class compartment was none
other than General Juan Lenchi Suarez, the most important figure in the present
Bolivian cabinet and a man widely tipped as the country’s next President. On
the small side, like most Bolivians, he had to keep leaping up and down to see
over the seat in front, to check out the details of this grave affront to
Bolivia.
La Paz itself is tucked beneath the permanently snow-capped
mountain of Illimani, in a dramatic canyon a thousand feet the level of the
Altiplano. The Spaniards settled here in 1548 because it was out of the wind.
The Indians live at the top of the town and the white middle classes at the
bottom. The permanent fear of the latter is that the Indians will descend upon
them as once they did during the revolution of 1952, and sweep them into the
filthy waters of the Choquepapa River. To make sure that does not happen, a
series of counter revolutions have been effected by the armed forces. The
latest looks extremely permanent, though appearances in Bolivia are often
deceptive.
