Reading Comprehension
Q1(CTET Nov 2012): Read the given poem and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option:
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Is it human nature
to desire forbidden fruit,
to hunger for a blossom
so obsessed with passion
that we forget the pain,
which inevitably arises
once we tease ourselves
with the thought of it
or taste a tiny part of it,
and it becomes the predator
eating at us like a carnivore
that saves the head for last
savouring the brain to feed its own
and we, still craving illicit nectar
enjoying the fact that it is devouring us?
- C J Grant
Q1: Another word in the poem that suggests 'forbidden' is