Read Extract of (L-1 Pg.4-6) and answer the following questions class 9 :
“Will you have a ride on the horse?” he gently asked as he approached the ring. The child’s throat tore into a thousand shrill sobs and he only shouted, “I want my mother, I want my father!”
Questions:
i. Who is ‘he’ in the first line of the extract? Whom is ‘he’ offering a ride on the horse?
ii. Why does ‘he’ ask for a ride?
iii. Why did the child’s throat ‘tore into a thousand shrill sobs’?
iv. Why did the child shout, “I want my mother, I want my father!”?
v. What is the meaning of ‘approach’?
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1. 'He' refers to the kind mam who found the child amidst the crowd. He is offering a ride on the horse to the lost child.
2. He asks for a ride because he wanted to calm the child.
3. The child's throat 'tore into a thousand shrill sobs' because he was crying from a long time for his parents.
4. The child shouted that he wanted his mother and father because he had got separated from his parents and wanted to reunite with his parents.
5. The meaning of 'approach' here is to speak with someone for the first time whom we don't know .
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