Unit 1 - His First Flight

Choose the appropriate synonyms for the underlined words:

1The young seagull was alone on his ledge:
- a) shelf
- b) floor
- c) tree
- d) nest
2As father and mother had come around calling to him shrilly:
- a) gainly
- b) loudly
- c) showed
- d) chilly
3His old brother catch his first herring and devour it:
- a) favour
- b) cover
- c) eat
- d) swallow
4The sun was now ascending the sky:
- a) shining
- b) rising
- c) setting
- d) soared
5Now, there was not a single scrap of food left:
- a) slice
- b) rough
- c) metal
- d) stone
6The sight of the food maddened him:
- a) Furious
- b) cool
- c) composed
- d) pacified
7He uttered a low crackle:
- a) laugh
- b) scold
- c) sharp noise
- d) scorn
8She was standing on a little high hump on the plateau:
- a) bump
- b) hollow
- c) hole
- d) crack
9He was soaring gradually downwards and outwards:
- b) slowly
- a) quickly
- c) meekly
- d) largely
10He was now falling headlong now:
- a) fearful
- b) happy
- c) courageous
- d) tiny
11He felt certain that his wings would never support him:
- a) long
- b) sure
- c) unsure
- d) fast
12They mocked at him for his cowardice:
- a) praised
- b) ridiculed
- c) strange
- d) proud
13They mocked at him for his cowardice:
- a) praised
- b) ridiculed
- c) strange
- d) proud
14The sun was ascending the sky:
- a) running
- c) climbing
- b) descending
- d) arranging
15He uttered a joyous scream:
- a) fantastic
- b) delightful
- c) sorrowful
- d) dull
16He stepped slowly out to the brink:
- a) leisurely
- b) fast
- c) free
- d) nice
17He kept calling plaintively:
- a) frightened
- b) sadly
- c) happily
- d) pleasant
18A monstrous terror seized him:
- a) enormous
- b) tiny
- c) fastest
- d) virtual
19He was soaring gradually:
- c) slowly
- a) expectedly
- b) unexpectedly
- d) swiftly
20He commenced to dive and soar:
- a) started
- b) terminated
- c) tried
- d) verified