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(A) He should be lurking in shadow,
Sliding through long grass
Near the water hole
Where plump deer pass.
(A) Everything was going well — it was an easy flight. 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. I 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. “I ought to go back to Paris,” I thought, but I wanted to get home. I wanted that breakfast. ‘I’ll take the risk,’ I thought, and flew that old Dakota straight into the storm.
i Based on the given extract,, choose the option that lists the meme which would be the most appropriate response to “…it was an easy flight”?
a) Option (i)
b) Option (ii)
c) Option (iii)
d) Option (iv)
Answer
C
ii How would you describe the “risk” the narrator took?
a) calculated
b) impetuous
c) unavoidable
d) navigable
Answer
B
iii In what way might the reference to the Dakota as “old” be relevant?
a) Its antique value made it expensive and precious to the narrator.
b) It is employed by the narrator as a term of endearment.
c) It did not have enough fuel to fly around the storm clouds.
d) Its ability to negotiate the storm clouds might have been suspect.
Answer
D
iv Read the statements given below, and then select the option that best describes the given statements.
Statement I – The narrator’s desire to reach home and see his family made him complacent.
Statement II – The narrator was unaware of the threat that the adversarial storm clouds presented.
Statement III – The narrator’s decision making was quick but irresponsible as well as dangerous.
a) Statement I is False, Statement II is True, Statement III cannot be inferred
b) Statement I and III are True, Statement II cannot be inferred.
c) Statement I cannot be inferred, Statement II is False, Statement III is True.
d) Statement I and II are False, Statement III is True.
Answer
C
v Select the correct option to fill in the blanks below:
risk: risky :: _ : __
a) danger: dangerously
b) hazard : hazardous
c) peril : imperilled
d) caution : precaution
Answer
B
(B) I was safe! I turned to look for my friend in the black aeroplane, but the sky was empty. There was nothing there. The black aeroplane was gone. I could not see it anywhere. 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…
i Select the option that correctly tracks the progression of emotions experienced by the narrator in the given extract.
| a) | excited | – | surprised | – | relieved | – | grateful | – | perplexed |
| b) | relieved | – | confused | – | curious | – | dejected | – | panic-stricken |
| c) | optimistic | – | lonely | – | calm | – | elated | – | appreciative |
| d) | triumphant | – | reassured– | inquisitive | – | thankful | – | uncertain |
Answer
A
ii Why do you think the woman in the control centre laughed?
a) She found the narrator funny.
b) She thought his question preposterous.
c) She thought he was teasing her.
d) She was relieved the narrator was safe.
Answer
B
iii Filled with questions, the narrator decides to place an advertisement in the local newspaper to look for his “friend”.
Read the advertisement given below and select the option that includes the most appropriate solutions for the blanks:
Looking for a pilot of a black aeroplane who (i) an old Dakota out of storm clouds late last night, but (ii) before the Dakota pilot could express his gratitude after landing. Though control centre and radar did not (iii) its presence, the Dakota pilot would really appreciate if his friend reached out. Please contact the Dakota pilot at 5200100110. In deep gratitude and eager (iv) _, XXX
Answer
A
iv The narrator exclaimed that he was “safe”. Which of the following represented the most immediate threat to the narrator’s safety?
a) The black mountain-like storm cloud
b) The depletion of fuel in the last fuel tank
c) Being lost due to non-functioning equipment
d) The old rattling Dakota aeroplane
Answer
B
v Choose the option that correctly matches the idioms in Column A to the story’s events in column B:
a) 1-(iv); 2-(iii); 3-(ii); 4-(i)
b) 1-(iii); 2-(i); 3-(iv); 4-(ii)
c) 1-(i); 2-(ii); 3-(iii); 4-(iv)
d) 1-(ii); 2-(iv); 3-(i); 4-(iii)
Answer
D
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how could the answer of the first question of the first passage be option c ? why don’t it be option b ?
anyway thanks for providing such hard questions for us
Yes I also think the same
you spoke too soon..is correct as what he said earlier that it was easy didn’t go with the situations he faced later in the story.