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  How to Tell Wild Animals Questions and Answers Class 10 English First Flight Extract Based Questions [3 Marks each] Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow. Question 1. If ever you should go by chance To jungles in the east; And if there should to you advance A large and tawny beast, If he roars at you as you’re dyin’ You’ll know it is the Asian Lion …. (a) State features of an Asian Lion. (b) What happens when the lion roars? (c) What do you mean by ‘tawny’ ? (d) What is the physical appearance of the lion is the stanza? Answer: (a) An Asian Lion is large and brownish-yellow in colour. (b) When the lion roars, it is very scary and it feels like we are going to die. (c) ‘Tawny’ means brownish-yellow in colour. (d) The lion in the stanza is large and tawny. Question 2. Or if some time when roaming round, A noble wild beast greets you, With black stripes on a yellow ground, Just notice if he eats you. This simple rule may help you learn The Bengal...

  Two Stories about Flying Questions and Answers Class 10 English First Flight 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 ...