English CBSE Class 10 NCERT First Flight Chapter 8 Mijbil the Otter Free Solution of Textbook Questions and Answers
MIJBIL THE OTTER
(Textbook Questions)
Oral Comprehension Check
Answer: Camusfearna would be suitable for the experiment of keeping an otter as a pet. Camusfearna was surrounded by water hence it was a suitable place for experiment.
Answer: The author had gone to Basra to get an otter. He waited there for five days to receive his mail.
Answer: His friend bought the otter for him. He got it through two Arabs of Basra town of Southern Iraq.
He liked his otter. He says that a new phase of life began that was thraldom to otters and otter fixation.
Answer: This type of otters were named by zoologists as Lutrogale perspicillata maxwelli . In short these were known as Maxwell’s otter.
Answer : Aloof and indifferent
Answer: When Maxwell took the otter to bathroom it went wild with joy in the water. It jumped into the bathtub, plunging and rolling in it, shooting up and down the length of the bathtub underwater, and making enough slosh and splash.
After two days Mijbil escaped to bathroom. It climbed on the bathtub and tried to operate the tap. Initially there was trickle of water. But soon it achieved the full flow of water.
Answer: British airline refused to carry an animal on its flight. So tickets were booked in another airline from Basra to Paris and then from Paris to London.
The airline insisted that Mij be packed in a box of size not more than eighteen inches square. The box was to be kept at the feet of author.
Answer: Miz tore lining of the box into shreds. In the process he got hurt and blood started coming from all over his body. The blood trickled from airholes and chinks of the lid.
Answer: The airline had insisted that the otter should be packed in a box. Therefore Maxwell had to put Mij back into the box.
Maxwel must have felt very sad in doing so. Because he loved his otter. At this time it was badly hurt.
Answer: The airhostess was very kind. She could understand situation of otter. She allowed Maxwell to keep the otter on his knees.
Maxwell was impresses by her kindness and hence have written these words for her.
Answer: When the box was opened, Mij jumped out of the box and ran towards other end of the aircraft. Many passengers started screaming at the sight of otter. A woman and an Indian passenger were really scared. Airhostess suggested that she will catch the otter and bring it to Maxwell. Soon, the otter by itself came back to Maxwell.
Answer: Mij had invented a game with ping pong ball. One suitcase had a problem with its lid. The lid used to remain sloping towards one end. He would place the ball at the higher end of the lid and run around towards the lower end. He would catch the ball before it fell on the ground.
Answer: Compulsive habits are those behaviour that one would do without any valid reason. Sometimes these are involuntary acts and many times these are intentional acts.
(i) school children
Answer: Putting feet at the centre of every tile, touching every seventh upright of a railing and pass outside of every second lamp post.
(ii) Mij
Answer: On his way back to home, Miz would jump on the boundary wall of the school. He would run on the wall at his full speed and jump down at the other end of the wall.
Answer: Otters belong to a comparatively small group of animals called Mustellines. Other animals belonging to this group are badger, mongoose, weasel, stoat and mink.
Answer: People of London did not recognize an otter. They guessed it to be a baby seal, a squirrel, a walrus, a hippo, a beaver, a bear cub or a leopard.
Thinking about the Text
Answer: Intelligent:
Mij had invented his own game with a ping pong ball. He could open the tap of the bathtub to obtain full flow.
Friendly:
Mij used to follow Maxwell without a lead and respond to the calls of Maxwell.
Fun loving:
He used to play with several toys. While returning home after a walk, he would climb on the boundary wall of the school and run on its entire length.
One who needs love:
On second night he came to the bed and slept at the crooks of knees of Maxwell. In the aircraft Mij climbed on knees of Maxwell and nuzzled on his face and neck.
Answer: Otters belong to a comparatively small group of animals called Mustellines. Other animals belonging to this group are badger, mongoose, weasel, stoat and mink.
Otters are found in wetland of Southern Iraq. They are tamed by Arabs.
They are friendly animals. They need lot of love and affection.
They are playful. They can play with various toys. But playing with water is their favourtie sport.
They are intelligent animals. They can invent a game of their own. They are fast learners. They can learn to open a tap.
Answer: This type of otters were named by zoologists as Lutrogale perspicillata maxwelli . In short these were known as Maxwell’s otter.
| What Miz does | How Mij feels or thinks |
| plunges, rolls in the water and makes the water splosh and splash | went wild with joy |
| Screws the tap in the wrong way | chittering with irritation and disappointment |
| Nuzzles Maxwell’s face and neck in the aeroplane | feels safe, comfortable and relieved |
Answer: He spent most of his time in play.
Answer: With the opening of that sack began a phase of my life that has not yet ended, and may, for all I know, not end before I do. It is, in effect, a thraldom to otters.
Answer: I watched, amazed; in less than a minute he had turned the tap far enough to produce a trickle of water, and after a moment or two achieved the full flow.
Answer: Mij quickly developed certain compulsive habits on these walks in the London streets
Answer: Marbles were Mij’s favourite toys for this pastime: he would lie on his back rolling two or more of them up and down his wide, flat belly without ever dropping one to the floor.
Answer: This, I was to learn, is a characteristic of otters
Answer: Otters belong to a comparatively small group of animals called Mustellines, shared by the badger, mongoose, weasel, stoat, mink and others.
Thinking about language
| Emperor Akbar | would
used to |
be fond of musical evenings |
| Every evening we | take long walks on the beach | |
| Forty years ago, very few people | own cars | |
| Till the 1980s, Shanghai | have dirty streets | |
| My uncle | spend his holidays by the sea |
- Emperor Akbar used to be fond of musical evenings.
- Emperor Akbar would take long walks on the beach.
- Emperor Akbar used to spend his holidays by the sea.
- Every evening we used to take long walks on the beach
- Every evening we would have dirty streets
- Forty years ago very few people would be fond of musical evening.
- Forty years ago very few people would take long walks on the beach
- Forty years ago very few people used to own cars
- My uncle used to be fond of musical evenings.
- My uncle used to take long walks on the beach.
- My uncle used to own cars.
- My uncle used to spend his holidays by the sea.
II Noun Modifiers
(i) An otter fixation – Noun
(ii) The iron railings – Noun
(iii) The Tigris marshes – Proper Noun
(iv) The London streets – Proper Noun
(v) soft velvet fur – Adjective plus noun
(vi) A four-footed soccer player – Adjective plus noun
| Nouns | |||||
| Temple | Girls | Triangle | Dresses | Persons | Thoughts |
| Boys | Roar | Gifts | Scream | Farewell | Expression |
| Time | Subject | Landscape | Handkerchief | Crossing | Flight |
| Chatterbox | Profession | Physique | Coffee | View | Celebration |
| Modifiers | |||||
| College | Rough | Love | Heartbreaking | Slang | Hundred |
| White | Ordinary | Slack | Uncomfortable | Bare | Railroad |
| Family | Marriage | Stone | Tremendous | First | Incorrigible |
| Panoramic | Birthday | Loud | Invigorating | Three | Ridiculous |
| Phrases | |
| College girls | Family profession |
| College boys | Plump physique |
| College time | Invigorating thoughts |
| Ordinary dresses | Panoramic view |
| Rough thoughts | Loud roar |
| Hundred persons | Slack time |
| Stone temple | Ridiculous fight |
| Birthday celebration | First flight |
| Railroad crossing | Incorrigible thoughts |
Students should make more phrases on their own.
III Read these sentences
A portion of – fried fish, gold
A pool of – blood, water
Flakes of – gold, snow
A huge heap of – cotton, stone, gold, snow
A gust of – wind, water
Little drops of – blood, water
A piece of – cotton, gold, fried fish
A pot of – blood, gold, water
| My teacher gave me some advice | My teacher gave me a bit of advice |
| Can you give some clay, please | Can you give me a lump of clay |
| The information you gave was very useful | The piece of information you gave was very useful |
| Because of these factories smoke hangs over the city | Because of these factories a cloud of smoke hangs over the city |
| Two stones rubbed together can produce sparks of fire | Two pieces of stones rubbed together can produce sparks of fire |
| He gave me some flowers on my birthday | He gave me a bunch of flowers on my birthday |
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FOG
(Textbook Questions)
Thinking about the Poem
Answer: Sandburg thinks that the fog is like a cat.
Answer: Fog comes silently and goes away silently.
Answer: Fog
Answer: Yes, the poet says that fog is like a cat. Three things that tell us this are
- It comes silently
- It goes silently
- It sits silently on its haunches
| Word | Metaphor | |
| Strom | Tiger | Pounces over the fields, Growls |
| Train | Snake | Moves its long body quickly, Speeds past |
| Fire | Anger | Destroys surroundings, Burns |
| School | Temple | Imparts value and knowledge, |
| Home | Nest | Provides shelter, Safety |
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