Read the following passage carefully and then answer the question that follows by choosing the best option out of the four alternatives. Passage: Another marvel on the far side of the lake was a little farm that felt like a secret inside the busy city. Some of the thin Karnataka labourers even looked away when children came to dig in the soil and eat what they found. However, on this side of the lake, the greatest pleasure for the children was the jamun tree. A few months earlier, Kalu and Sunil had enjoyed a feast sitting in its branches, shaking down a few berries for their friend Mirchi. At that time they discovered the second coolest thing about the jamun tree, namely that there were parrots nesting in it. Since then, some other road boys had been capturing the parrots one by one to sell at the Marol Market, but Sunil convinced Kalu that the birds should be left free. Every morning Sunil listened for the parrots squawking to make sure they had not been abducted during the night. Kalu was an expert in searching the recycling bins inside airline catering compounds. Private waste collectors emptied these large dumpsters regularly, but Kalu had mastered the schedule of the trash trucks. On the night before collection, he would climb over the barbed wire fences and raid the overflowing bins. In time, this routine became known to the local police. He kept getting caught until some constables proposed a different arrangement. Kalu could keep his metal scrap if he agreed to pass on any information he picked up on the road about local drug dealers. Question: According to the passage, what was the greatest pleasure on this side of the lake for the children?

Introduction / Context:
This question is based on a reading comprehension passage about children, labourers, a lake, and a jamun tree. The goal is to test your ability to locate specific information in the passage and to understand how the author describes the things that gave pleasure to the children. Accurate reading of details is essential in such questions.

Given Data / Assumptions:
- The passage describes two sides of a lake and several places such as a small farm and a jamun tree.
- It explicitly states what the greatest pleasure on this side of the lake was.
- We must select the option that matches the wording and meaning in the passage, not what we personally might find enjoyable.

Concept / Approach:
For detail based comprehension questions, the best strategy is to locate the relevant sentence in the passage and read it carefully. Here, the key sentence begins with "But the greatest pleasure, this side of the lake, was the jamun tree" in the original story. The rewritten passage preserves this idea, clearly stating that the children found their greatest pleasure in the jamun tree on this side of the lake.

Step-by-Step Solution:
Step 1: Skim the passage to identify mentions of pleasure, enjoyment, or favourite places of the children. Step 2: Focus on the sentence that contrasts "another marvel on the far side of the lake" with "the greatest pleasure, this side of the lake". Step 3: Note that on the far side of the lake there was a little farm that felt like a secret, but this is not called the greatest pleasure on this side. Step 4: Observe that on this side of the lake, the jamun tree is singled out as the greatest pleasure. Step 5: Compare this understanding with the answer choices and pick the one that directly mentions the jamun tree.

Verification / Alternative check:
Re reading the relevant portion confirms the contrast: the farm is a marvel on the far side, while the jamun tree is the greatest pleasure on this side. Option B, "The jamun tree near the lake", most closely matches this wording and idea. None of the other options is described as the greatest pleasure in the passage. This confirms our choice.

Why Other Options Are Wrong:
Option A, "A little farm that felt like a secret in the city", is on the far side of the lake and is called a marvel, not the greatest pleasure on this side. Option C, "Feasting in the branches of many trees", exaggerates; the passage describes a feast in the branches of the jamun tree specifically. Option D, "Watching labourers looking away when the children came to dig and eat", is just a detail and not described as a pleasure. Option E, "Playing near the recycling bins of airline catering compounds", relates to Kalu's work, not the children's main pleasure.

Common Pitfalls:
A frequent error is to answer from general feeling rather than the exact text, or to mix up details from different parts of the passage. Students may also confuse the far side and this side of the lake. Always pay attention to such directional or positional phrases and to words like "greatest", "main", or "most important", which signal key details in the passage.

Final Answer:
According to the passage, the greatest pleasure on this side of the lake for the children was The jamun tree near the lake.