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Extract Based Questions [3 Marks each]

Story I His First Flight


Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Question 1.
The young seagull was alone on his ledge. His two brothers and his sister had already flown
away the day before. He had been afraid to fly with them. Somehow when he had taken a
little run forward to the brink of the ledge and attempted to flap his wings he became afraid.
The great expanse of sea stretched down beneath, and it was such a long way down miles
down. He felt certain that his wings would never support him; so he bent his head and ran
away back to the little hole under the ledge where he slept at night.
(a) Why was the young seagull afraid?
(b) What did the young seagull feel about his wings?
(c) Pick out the word from the passage that means the same as ‘the verge’.
(d) Pick out the word from the passage which means ‘a narrow flat piece of rock that sticks
out from a cliff’.

Question 2.
That was twenty-four hours ago. Since then nobody had come near him. The day before, all
day long, he had watched his parents flying about with his brothers and sister, perfecting
them in the art of flight, teaching them how to skim the waves and how to dive for fish. He
had in fact, seen his elder brother catch his first herring and devour it, standing on a rock,
while his parents circled around raising a proud cackle. And all the morning the whole family
had walked about on the big plateau midway down the opposite cliff taunting him for his
cowardice.
(a) The young seagull had been alone for how much time?
(b) Why was the whole family taunting the young seagull?
(c) Find the word which can be replaced by ‘consume’ in the passage?
(d) The word ‘bravery’ is an antonym of ……….

Question 3.
He stepped slowly out to the brink of the ledge, and standing on one leg with the other leg
hidden under his wing, he closed one eye, then the other, and pretended to be falling asleep.
Still they took no notice of him. He saw his two brothers and his sister lying on the plateau
dozing with their heads sunk into their necks. His father was preening the feathers on his
white back.
Only his mother was looking at him. She was standing on a little high hump on the plateau,
her white breast thrust forward.
Now and again, she tore at a piece of fish that lay at her feet and then scrapped each side of
her beak on the rock.
(a) What did the young seagull do out of his ledge?
(b) What was seagull’s father doing?
(c) Find out the word in the passage which mean the same as ‘to sharpen’.
(d) What does plateau mean?
Question 4.
Then a monstrous terror seized him and his heart stood still. He could hear nothing. But it
only lasted a minute. The next moment he felt his wings spread outwards. The wind rushed
against his breast feathers, then under his stomach, and against his wings. – He could feel the
tips of his wings cutting through the air. He was not falling headlong now. He was soaring
gradually downwards arid outwards, He was no longer afraid.
He just felt a bit dizzy. Then he flapped his wings once and he soared upwards. “Ga, ga, ga,
Ga, ga, ga, Gaw-col-ah,” his mother swooped past him, her wings making a loud noise. He
answered her with another scream. Then his father flew over him screaming. He saw his two
brothers and his sister flying around him curving and banking and soaring and diving. [CBSE
2016]
(a) What did the young seagull feel the next moment?
(b) What did the young seagull’s mother do?
(c) Find out the word from the passage that means the same as ‘fly high in the air’.
(d) Find out from the passage a word that means ‘to grab’.

Question 5.
His parents and his brothers and sister had landed on this green flooring ahead of him. 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 dog-fish.
(a) What does the phrase, ‘this green flooring’ refer to?
(b) What made the young seagull tired?
(c) Find out the word that means the same as ‘inviting’.
(d) The word ……… means a small piece/amount of something.

Story II The Black Aeroplane


Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Question 1.
The moon was coming up in the east, behind me, and stars were shining in the clear sky
above me. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I was happy to be alone high up above the
sleeping countryside. I was flying my old Dakota aeroplane over France back to England. I
was dreaming of my holiday and looking forward to being with my family. I looked at my
watch at one thirty in the morning.
I should call Paris Control soon. I thought. As 1 looked down past the nose of the aeroplane, I
saw the lights of a big city in front of me.
(a) How was the weather when the pilot started flying his aeroplane?
(b) Why was the pilot flying his old Dakota aeroplane over France back to England?
(c) Find out the word similar in the meaning to ‘hoping with pleasure’.
(d) Choose from the passage the word which means ‘land outside towns or cities’.

Question 2.
Paris was about 150 kilometres behind me when I saw the clouds. Storm clouds. They were
huge. They looked like black mountains ‘standing in front of me across the sky-1 knew I
could not fly up and over them, and I did not have enough fuel to fly around them to the north
or south. CBSE 2016
(a) What happened when the pilot was about 150 kilometres away from Paris?
(b) What does the author compare the clouds to?
(c) Find out the word similar in meaning as sufficient.
(d) The word ‘elephantine’ is similar in meaning to the word ………

Question 3.
“He knows that I am lost”, I thought ‘He’s trying to help me.
He turned his aeroplane slowly to the north, in front of my Dakota, so that it would be easier
for me to follow him. I was very happy to go behind the strange aeroplane like an obedient
child.
After half an hour the strange black aeroplane was still there in front of me in the clouds.
Now, there was only enough fuel in the old Dakota’s last tank to fly for five or ten minutes
more. I was starting to feel frightened again. But then he started to go down and I followed
through the storm.
(a) Why was the pilot happy to find his aeroplane behind another aeroplane in the black
clouds?
(b) Why was the pilot frightened again?
(c) Find the opposite of ‘insufficient’ from the passage.
(d) What does a ‘storm’ mean?

Question 4.
I landed and was not sorry to walk away from the old Dakota near the control tower. I went
and asked a woman in the control centre where I was and who the other pilot was. ‘I wanted
to say ‘Thank you’.
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? CBSE 2016
(a) Why did the writer go to the Control center immediately?
(b) Why was the writer shocked after hearing the woman’s word?
(c) Find out the word in the passage that means the same as ‘peculiar’.
(d) Which part of speech does the word ‘tonight’ belong to?

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