Extract Based Questions Test: Two stories about Flying - 2 - Class 10 MCQ

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

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…

Q. 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.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

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…

Q. Choose the option that correctly matches the idioms in Column A to the story's events in Column B:

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

Everything was going well — it was an easy flight. Paris was about 150 kilometers 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.

Q. 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.

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

Everything was going well — it was an easy flight. Paris was about 150 kilometers 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.

Q. How would you describe the "risk" the narrator took?

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

Everything was going well — it was an easy flight. Paris was about 150 kilometers 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.

Q. Based on the given extract, choose the option that lists the name which would be the most appropriate response to "...it was an easy flight"?

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

Everything was going well — it was an easy flight. Paris was about 150 kilometers 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.

Q. In what way might the reference to the Dakota as "old" be relevant?

Direction: Read the following paragraph and choose the correct options to answer any four questions given below :

Everything was going well — it was an easy flight. Paris was about 150 kilometers 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.

Q. Select the correct option to fill in the blanks below:

risk: risky ::__________:________