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. Even when each of his brothers and his little sister, whose wings were far shorter than his own, ran to the brink, flapped their wings, and flew away, he failed to muster up courage to take that plunge which appeared to him so desperate. His father and mother had come around calling to him shrilly, upbraiding him, threatening to let him starve on his ledge unless he flew away. But for the life of him he could not move.
Answer the followings:
01. Who was alone on the ledge?
02. Who had already flown away?
03. Why had he not been flown with them?
04. Where was seagull?
05. Why was he was afraid of flying?
06. Who had flown away the day before?
07. What was his fear?
08. Why did he run back to his hole?
09. Where did he sleep at night?
10. Why did he fail to fly with his brothers?
11. What was stretched beneath the ledge?
12. Why could he not take up the plunge?
13. Why did his parents scold him?
14. What was there to threaten the seagull?
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 older 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 with his cowardice.
Answer the followings:
01. How long he stayed there?
02. What did the seagull do the day before all day long?
03. What was his brother and sisters were doing?
04. Where were his parents staying?
05. Who is he in the above lines? For how long had he been there?
06. What were his brothers and sister learning from his parents?
07. Why was he not with his family?
08. Find the words in the passage which mean the same as the following (01) to eat quickly (02) loud noise
The sun was now ascending the sky, blazing on his ledge that faced the south. He felt the heat because he had not eaten since the previous nightfall.
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. The sight of the food maddened him. How he loved to tear food that way, scrapping his beak now and again to whet it.
Answer the followings:
01. What was his pretending?
02. Whom did he want to show that he was sleeping?
03. Who was dozing on the plateau?
04. What was his father doing?
05. Who was looking at him?
06. Where did she standing?
07. What did she do?á
08. What did madden him?
09. Where was his father?
10. Was his mother eating? Why was she tearing fish and scrapping her beak ?
11. The sight of food maddened him’ Why?
12. Which words in the passage mean the following (01) smoothing feathers with beak.(02) to sharpen
13. Who was looking at seagull?
14. What was the condition of seagull?
15. What was being done by his mother?
Answer the followings:
01. Why did he called ga, ga, ga,?
02. Who was flying across to him?
03. How did she make the seagull to fly?
04. What was in the beak of his mother?
05. What maddened him?
06. What was his mind state?
07. What wondered the young seagull?
08. How did seagull conduct at this trouble time?
09. What was the scream of the seagull?
10. How did his brother and sister fly around him?
11. What role was played by his father?
12. How did his mother conduct at this scene?
Then he completely forgot that he had not always been able to fly, and commended himself to dive and soar and curve, shrieking shrilly.
He was near the sea now, flying straight over it, facing straight out over the ocean. He saw a vast green sea beneath him, with little ridges moving over it and he turned his beak sideways and cawed amusedly.
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.
He had made his first flight.
Answer the followings:
01. What did he forget completely?
02. Why did he scream when he landed on the green flooring?
03. Who had already landed on the green flooring?
04. What were they asking the seagull for?
05. Write down his state of body?
06. What did the young seagull do at that moment?
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