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.