Question

Read the extract and answer the following

questions.

A)He dropped his legs to stand on the green sea. His

legs sank into it. He screamed with fright and

attempted to rise again flapping his wings. But he was

tired and weak with hunger and he could not rise,

exhausted by the strange exercise. His feet sank intothe green sea, and then his belly touched it and he

sank no further. He was floating on it, and around him

his family was screaming, praising him and their beaks

were offering him scraps of dog fish. 1X4=4M

(a) Why could he not rise?

(b) Why was his family praising him?

(c) Find out a word from the passage which means the

same as tired out.

(d) What was his family offering him?​

Answer 1

Answer:

(a). as he watch tired and weak with hunger so he could not rise.

(b). as he was successful in his first flight that is why his family was praising him.

(C). exhausted

(d). his family was offering him scraps of dogfish.

hope it will be right and helpful

Answer 2

Answers to the given questions are as follows:

(a). Why could he not rise?

Ans: He couldn’t rise as he was tired and weak with hunger.

(b). Why was his family praising him?

Ans:  His family was praising him because he had made a successful flight and conquered his fear.

(c) Find out a word from the passage which means the  same as tired out.

Ans:  ‘Exhausted’ means the same as ‘tired out’.

(d). What was his family offering him?​

Ans: Scraps of dogfish.