Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
They were beckoning to him, calling shrilly. 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 into the green sea, and then his belly touched it and he sank no farther. He was floating on it, and around him his family was screaming, praising him and their beaks were offering him scraps of dogfish. He had made his first flight.
(a) Name the lesson from which this extract has been taken.
(b) What was the 'green flooring' on which his brothers and sister had landed ?
(c) Which word in the passage means the same as 'summoning or luring by silent signal' ?
Or
Read the following extracts and answer the questions/complete the sentence that follow : There is languid, emerald sea,
where the sole inhabitant is me—
a mermaid, drfiting blissfully.
(a) Who is the 'me' in these lines ?
(b) What does the desire to be 'sole inhabitant' tell you about 'me' ?
(c) Which word in the extract means the same as : 'Relaxed' ?

Answer 1

The Second Extracts Answer Would Be

a.The mermaid is the me in these lines
b.The mermaid wishes to be alone and isolated.She prefers to be alone.\
c.''Blissfully''

Answer 2

(a) This extract has been taken from the lesson ‘His First Flight’.
(b) The green flooring on which the young seagull’s brothers and sister had landed was the sea.
(c) ‘beckoning’.

Or

(a) Amanda.
(b) Her desire is to be mermaid, living in the green sea.
(c) blissfully.