(Feathered Friends)
Reading 2:
Q1) Who saved the lives on board: Sven or the cannery? Why do you think so?;
Q2) Did Sven to the right think by getting a bird into the spaceship? Why do you think so?
Q3) What, according to you, is a better choice — carrying a kenari or an alarm system? Why do you think so?
Answers
Answer:
Feathered friend by Arthur Clarke is a science fiction short story about
a small canary and how her existence on the space station helped save lives.The
narrator says that he is unaware of a regulation that prevents pets from being on a
space station and that Sven would ignore it anyway.Sven was the best construction
worker on the space station at the time and was a very ''wiry title fellow'' which got
him a bonus for being under 150 pounds unlike his counterpart Sven was smart to
have Claribel as as a pet because it took close to nothing to to support her.The
narrator woke up one day and with a headache and was slow to do morning
activities.Sven was missing from breakfast because he was looking for
Claribel.Claribel was found in a stunned state and Jock Dancan could not hear a
heartbeat.Someone said to give her a oxygen from oxygen mask which served as an
oxygen tent for Claribel.The oxygen revived Claribel and she called everyone to
breakfast and passed out again.The narrator notices that Claribel was passing out
because of the air being bad, an air purifier had frozen and the single 500 thousand
dollar alarm failed to go off.
Claribel had saved everyone's life.
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