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Story I His First Flight
Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Question 1.
The young seagull was alone on his ledge. His two brothers and his sister had already flown away the day before. He had been afraid to fly with them. Somehow when he had taken a little run forward to the brink of the ledge and attempted to flap his wings he became afraid. The great expanse of sea stretched down beneath, and it was such a long way down miles down. He felt certain that his wings would never support him; so he bent his head and ran away back to the little hole under the ledge where he slept at night.
(a) Why was the young seagull afraid?
(b) What did the young seagull feel about his wings?
(c) Pick out the word from the passage that means the same as ‘the verge’.
(d) Pick out the word from the passage which means ‘a narrow flat piece of rock that sticks out from a cliff’.​

Answer 1

Extract Based Questions

Explanation:

(a) The young seagull was afraid of the vast sea. The 'great expanse of the sea' frightened him.

(b) The young seagull felt that his wings were too tiny and non-supportive to face the vast sea. He assumed that his wings would not support him and he would fall in the sea.

(c) 'Brink' is the word from the passage that means the same as ‘the verge’.

(d) 'Ledge' is the word from the passage that means ‘a narrow flat piece of rock that sticks out from a cliff’.​

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Answer 2

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