His parents and his brothers and sister had landed on this green floor in front of him. They were beckoning him to him , calling shrilly.

(a) 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. QUESTIONS (1) Name of the lesson from which the above passage has been taken? (a) A letter to God (c) Hundred dresses (i) Who were they beckoning to? (a) Young seagull (c) an elephant (iii) What has been called the green flooring? (a) Green carpet (b) Grass (iv) Whose feet sank into the sea? (b) His first flight (d) Coorg (b) a crow (d) None of these (c) Sea (b) Sparrow (v) Which word in the passage means 'pieces"? (a) Parrot (a) Scraps (b) Screaming (c) Young seagull (c) Exhausted 1 * 5 = 5 (d) All these (d) Crow (d) Shrilly

Explanation:

(a) Land (probably, I am not sure though)

(b) he was tired with hunger and exhausted by the strange exercise.

(c) Beckoning

(d)scrap

1. drag the central argument paine presents and its two claims to complete the chart. argument claims america may have flourished more had it not been under the power of any european country. america may have flourished under britain in the past, but there is no guarantee that it will continue to flourish in the future. america will continue to flourish as long as the essential food products it sells are bought and eaten in europe. the american colonies will no longer flourish when britain makes war against them. britain's king has shown himself to be prejudiced against the colonies, rather than wanting them to flourish.

2.select the sentence in this passage that can be classified as a false statement.

although few humans per year are attacked by polar bears, any individual attack can be terrifying and even fatal. the warming of arctic regions has allowed the intrusion of humans into the polar bears’ habitat, increasing the danger of harmful contacts. remaining alert and using precautions can humans avoid a negative encounter with a polar bear. traveling together and staying close to the group can humans avoid bear attacks. certain weapons, including nonlethal ones such as pepper spray, are effective against polar bears. once a bear has decided to attack, however, nothing can be done.

3.select the sentence in this passage that demonstrates the fallacy of making an extreme either-or claim.

the civil war was the bloodiest conflict in the history of the united states. more than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives. the fighting took place in many different cities and throughout the countryside. the wounded often suffered acute pain while in the field hospitals. they all should have asked for better care. william hammond, the surgeon general of the union army, created a new system of sanitary field care. if people do not accept hammond as the most important person from the civil war, they have no understanding of the war.