reading comprehension Model Questions & Answers, Practice Test for ibps po prelims

Directions:

In this section there are five short passages. Each passage is followed by questions based on the passage. Read each passage and answer the questions that follow :

PASSAGE

For days I trudged from one property-dealer to another, from one "to-let" notice to another, with the estimated advance money tucked safely in the inner lining of my handbag, but in vain. At one place they needed a couple, at another a young man, and at another they wished to know my employment status. And I realized that I was a freak called the single woman and the job status being nothing more than a freelance writer with hardly any assignments in hand, only dreams of making it some day. So the dream-house remained far away, gradually turning into a fantasy