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Directions : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the most appropriate options from the given ones : Mussoorie had only about three cars that year [1963], all owned by doctors, and there may have been a taxi or two. There were rickshaws, but hand-drawn, and sometimes, on steep ascents, you needed three people to pull one. The rickshaw-pullers were poor men from the villages of Tehri Garhwal, who continued to make a precarious living in this way till hand-drawn rickshaws were abolished in the 1970s and the men were given cycle rickshaws. But you used rickshaws only if you were in a hurry, or had a medical emergency. Or if the distance to cover was considerable, or if you had a load too heavy to carry. Mostly you walked. Two or three times a week I would walk into town, to visit the Agra Bank, the post office, and the bookshop, occasionally stopping at a restaurant for a coffee or a snack. By mid-November the main town would be deserted. If it snowed, youngsters trudged up from Rajpur to revel in snow-fights on the Mall, but no one stayed overnight. The few people who had nowhere to go to would ask me why I wasn't going anywhere for the winter. Even old, Miss Bean went away for a month to the YWCA in Dehradun. Winter or summer or rain, I was happy to write or laze in my rooms, or to step out and take a path, any path, and follow it till it led to a forest glade or stream or hilltop. I liked walking at night. There would be no one else about at that hour, except the odd drunk who usually needed guidance, and as I always had time on my hands, I would help him find his way home. But for that, my walks were solitary, quite peaceful and pleasant. Study the following statements given below carefully marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Choose the correct option from the alternatives that follow. Assertion (A) : Rickshaws sometimes needed three people to pull one. Reason (R) : The poor men pulled rickshaws on steep ascents.