Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
'She looked at me very strangely, and then laughed'. "Another aeroplane ? Up there in this storm ? No other aeroplanes were flying tonight. Yours was the only one I could see on the radar."
So who helped me to arrive there safely without a compass or a radio, and without any more fuel in my tanks ? Who was the pilot on the strange black aeroplane, flying in the storm without lights ?
(a) What was the reply of the woman in the control centre ?
(b) What do you understand by the line; 'she looked at me very strangely and then laughed' ?
(c) Find the word from the passage which means, "a system that uses radio waves to find the position of a moving object."
Or
Read the following extracts and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow : Though to distinguish bats of prey
A novice might nonplus,
The crocodile you always may
Tell from the Hyena thus;
Hyenas come with merry smiles;
But if they weep they're Crocodile.
(a) A novice would get confused to differentiate the
(b) The crocodile are identified in the forest by their
(c) Which word in the extract means the same as 'In this manner'.

Answer 1

(i) The woman in the control center replied that no other aeroplanes were flying that night.

(ii)   The woman was surprised at his questions and then she laughed because she hadn't seen any other aeroplane on radar.

(iii)  'Radar' means a system that uses radio waves to find the position of a moving object, e.g., aeroplane.

                             Or

(a)    Crocodile and Hyena.

(b)   tears / weeping

(c)    thus.