English class 10 1.5 his first flight

 English class 10
1.5 his first flight
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What did the young seagull feel while he was trying to fly? (हवेत उडण्याच्या प्रयत्नात असताना त्या छोट्या सीगलला काय वाटत होते?)
Ans. The young seagull was afraid of flying. He took a little run forward to the brink of the ledge and tried to flap his wings. But when he saw the great expanse of the sea stretched down beneath and its long way down, he felt that his small wings

How did the seagull parents perfect the young seagull's brothers and sister in the art of flight? [छोट्या सीगलच्या आईवडिलांनी त्याच्या भावांना व बहिणीला हवेत उडण्याच्या कलेमध्ये कसे निष्णात (प्रवीण) केले?]
Ans. The parents of the seagull flew about with his brothers and sister, perfecting them in the art of flying. They trained them how to skim the waves and how to dive for fish. When they succeeded in the art, the parents circled about them raising a proud cackle to encourage them.

Pick out from the passage the Homophones for the following:

(1) see(2) wood(3) there4) scene
Ans. (1) see- sea(2) wood- would
(3) there their (4) scene seen

*(3) Explain how the underlined Homographs defer in meaning:
(1) (a) He saw his two brothers.
(b) The woodcutter cut the weakened branch with his sharp saw.
Ans. (a) In the sentence (a) the Homograph 'saw'
is the past tense of the word 'see'.
(b) In the sentence (b) the Homograph 'saw' means a tool of a carpenter used for cutting wood. (2) (a) The bird injured his wing.

When the young seagull pretended to be falling asleep, his parents took notice of him.
False

*(2) Flying across the young seagull, the mother dropped into his beak a piece of fish.
False

(3) The young seagull was fed a piece of fish by his mother.
False

(4) The young seagull's father was preening the feathers on his white back.
True

What were the young seagull's parent doing? (त्या छोट्या सीगलचे आईवडील काय करीत होते?
Ans. The young seagull's father was cleaning hi white back feathers smooth with his beak. His mother was looking at the young seagull. She stood on a little high hump on the plateau. Her white breast was 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. She was trying to attract the young one's attention towards the piece of fish.

*(2) Why did the young seagull feel hot? ( छोट्या सीगलला उष्णतेची झळ का जाणवली ?)
Ans. The sun was now ascending the sky, blazing on the young seagull's ledge that faced the south. But more than the heat of the sun he felt the heat of his hunger because he had not eaten anything since the previous nightfall.

Explain how the underlined Homographs defer in meaning:
(1) (a) He saw his two brothers.
(b) The woodcutter cut the weakened branch with his sharp saw.
Ans. (a) In the sentence (a) the Homograph 'saw' is the past tense of the word 'see'.
(b) In the sentence (b) the Homograph 'saw' means a tool of a carpenter used for cutting wood.
(2) (a) The bird injured his wing(1) His two brothers an sister had already f away.
(2) But for the life of him could not move.

(1) What were the young seagull's parents
doing? (त्या छोट्या सीगलचे आईवडील काय करीत होते ?)
Ans. The young seagull's father was cleaning his white back feathers smooth with his beak. His mother was looking at the young seagull. She stood on a little high hump on the plateau. Her white breast was 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. She was trying to attract the young one's attention towards the piece of fish.

+(2) Why did the young seagull feel hot? ( छोट्या सीगलला उष्णतेची झळ का जाणवली ?)
Ans. The sun was now ascending the sky, blazing on the young seagull's ledge that faced the south. But more than the heat of the sun he felt the heat of his hunger because he had not eaten anything since the previous nightfall.

(3) How did the young seagull learn his first flight? (तो छोटा सीगल आपल्या पहिल्या उड्डाणाचा पाठ कसा शिकला?)
Ans. When the young seagull was calling his mother plaintively, his mother had picked up a piece of the fish and was flying across to him with it. He leaned out eagerly trying to get nearer to her as she flew across. But when the piece of fish in her beak was almost within his reach, his mother halted, her wings motionless, Maddened by hunger, the young one dived at the fish. While doing so he fell outwards

How did the family welcome the young seagull's first flight? ( उड्डाणाचे त्याच्या कुटुंबाने कसे स्वागत केले?)
Ans. When the family members saw the young seagull's first flight they were very happy because that is what they expected from him. His mother swooped past him making a loud noise of her wings. His father flew over him screaming and his two brothers and his sister flew around him curveting and flying with one wing higher than the other. They were soaring and diving to express their joy.

*(2) What did the young seagull forget? (ata सीगल कोणती गोष्ट विसरून गेला? त्याने नंतर काय केले ?)
Ans. The young seagull completely forgot that he had not always been able to fly. He commended himself for his diving and soaring and curveting shrieking shrilly.

(3) When did the young seagull get his prized scraps of dog-fish ? (त्या छोट्या सीगलला त्याचे बहुमोल माशाचे तुकडे केव्हा मिळाले ?)
Ans. The young seagull was completely exhausted after his first flight. He drooped his legs to stand on the green sea. His legs sank in it. He screamed with fright and tried to rise again flapping his wings. But he was tired and weak with hunger and he could not rise. His feet sank into the green sea and then his belly touched it and he could sink no farther. He was floating on it. His family admired his feat (achievement) and offered him scraps of

How does your family help you to achieve your goal? (तुम्हांला तुमचे ध्येय साध्य करण्याकरिता तुमचे कुटुंब कसे साहाय्य करते ?)
Ans. My family is always there to help me in every work. Each one of them, especially my parents, help me in deciding my goal. If I neglect any day, they remind me of my goal all the while. They all are ready to guide me, in their own way, to achieve whatever I desire. They always encourage me and admire and praise me even for my smallest