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1. He felt certain that is Wings would never support him;............. But for the life of him he could not move.
a. Who does 'He' the passage refer to?
b. What was his problem at the moment?
c. How did his own timidity make his life miserable?
d. How did his parents deal with the young Seagull?
i) pushed him down the ledge.
ii) let him starve on the ledge.
111) abandoned him on the ledge and flew away.
2. He saw his two brothers and sisters lying on.......... the site of food maddened him.
a. Name the lesson and the writer.
b. What did he see from the hole where he was confined?
c. What was his mother doing? Did she do it purposely?
d. How did the sight of food affect him?
i)made him happy.
11)made him angry.
iii)maddened him.
3. He waited a moment in surprise.................the next moment he felt is wings spread outwards.
a. Who are ‘he' and she' here in the passage?
b. What service was expecting from his mother?
i) bring him fish to eat.
ii) help him to fly.
iii) let him take rest in the hole.
c. How did he lose balance and fall outwards?
d. How long did he continue falling below?
Answers
Answer:
a.He is the young seagull.
b.he could not muster up courage to take a flight.
c.He could not accompany his family to the big plateau and now starved.
d.let him starve on the ledge.
2.
a. Lesson-His first flight
Writer-Liam O' Flaherty
b.he could see his father preening the feathers , hia brothers and sister dozing and his mother toring ata apiece of fish.
c. His mother tore at a piece of fish that lay at her feet and then scrapped each side of her beak on the rock.
Yes she did it purposely beacause the young seagull loved to tear food that way,scraping his beak now and again to whet it.
d. maddened him.
3.
a. he is the young seagull and she is his mother.
b.bring him fish to eat.
c.he dived at the fish and fell outwards and downwards.
it was only for a moment. Aftr that his wings spead out cutting across the wind.