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प्रश्न
Answer of the following question in 100-120 words:
Motivation plays an important role in taking risks in life and in succeeding. Do you agree? Discuss with reference to the pilot of the old Dakota and the young seagull.
उत्तर
When taking risks in life, motivation is crucial. Every brave action is motivated by the need to accomplish something exceptional. One is encouraged to succeed by this desire to take chances. The stories "His First Flight" and "The Black Aeroplane" emphasise that success requires taking risks. Even though some choices seem risky, they must be made. The inexperienced pilot and the young seagull make difficult choices but eventually succeed. The seagull made a risky choice because he unexpectedly fell off the ledge while attempting to snag the fish from his mother's beak. He might have had a tragic ending if he hadn't found the courage to spread his wings. The pilot made a risky choice by flying into stormy, dark clouds without sufficient information. The young seagull and the pilot shared a desire to succeed by taking chances. While the pilot's choice was influenced by his circumstances, the young seagull was driven or motivated by his hunger. He was forced to get home to spend time with his family and eat a hearty English breakfast. But once they both decided to succeed, there was no turning back. Finally, the theme of courage brought the flight of the bird and the flight of the human together.
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Try to guess the meanings of the word ‘black’ in the sentences given below. Check the meanings in the dictionary and find out whether you have guessed right.
1. Go and have a bath; your hands and face are absolutely black __________.
2. The taxi-driver gave Ratan a black look as he crossed the road when the traffic light was green. __________
3. The bombardment of Hiroshima is one of the blackest crimes against humanity. __________
4. Very few people enjoy Harold Pinter’s black comedy. __________
5. Sometimes shopkeepers store essential goods to create false scarcity and then sell these in black. __________
6. Villagers had beaten the criminal black and blue. __________
Describe the narrator’s experience as he flew the aeroplane into the storm.
Why does the narrator say, “I landed and was not sorry to walk away from the old Dakota…”?
What made the woman in the control centre look at the narrator strangely?
Who do you think helped the narrator to reach safely? Discuss this among yourselves and give reasons for your answer.
We know that the word ‘fly’ (of birds/insects) means to move through air using wings. Tick the words which have the same or nearly the same meaning
| swoop | flit | paddle | flutter |
| ascend | float | ride | skim |
| sink | dart | hover | glide |
| descend | soar | shoot | spring |
| stay | fall | sail | flap |
Answer the following question in 40–50 words.
“I’ll take the risk.” What is the risk? Why does the narrator take it? (The Black Aeroplane)
Read the extract given below and attempt the questions that follow:
| Inside the clouds, everything was suddenly black. If was impossible to see anything outside the aeroplane. The old aeroplane jumped and twisted in the air. I looked at the compass. I couldn't believe my eyes the compass was turning round and round and round. It was dead. It would not work. The other instruments were suddenly dead, too. I tried the radio. "Paris Control? Paris Control? Can you hear me?" There was no answer. The radio was dead too. I had no radio, no compass, and I could not see where I was. I was lost in the storm. |
- As soon as the pilot was inside the cloud ______. (1)
- his ears got blocked.
- he choked with fear.
- his vision was obstructed.
- he was jumping up and down.
- The devices in the aeroplane were ______. (1)
- malfunctioning.
- broken completely.
- giving wrong readings.
- stopped responding completely.
- The Paris air control did not reply to the pilot's call because ______. (1)
- Select the option that correctly captures the application of the word 'twisted' as used in the extract. (1)
- Ragini twisted Raghav's Wrist.
- Ragini twisted the story to suit the occasion.
- Ragini did not appreciate Raghav's twisted bent of mind.
- Ragini matched the swimmer as he twisted twice in the air before diving into the water.
- Fill in the blank with ONE WORD only: (1)
The narrator's ______ comes through clearly when he sees the compass turning round and round.
