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Task 6. India’s first woman pilot Durba Banerjee, was inter-
viewed by some students. Her answers to the questions are given
below. Can you guess the questions that she was asked.

1. Why did you want to become a pilot?
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In my time, girls were just becoming teachers and doctors.
I thought I should be completely different.
2.
I first started flying in 1951.
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3.
My salary was only Rs. 356 when I first joined as pilot.
4.
The male pilots accepted me almost immediately.
5.
I went to the US as the Indian representative at the World
Lady Pilot’s Association gathering.
6.
I never married as I thought my career would not allow me
to devote sufficient time to family life.
7.
Many girls think that a pilot’s life is glamorous but they
have to be willing to sacrifice a lot. It is a hard life with no
fixed hours.
8.
I stopped flying in 1989 when I retired from IA.

Task 7. Look at these sentences.
He began to feel terribly drowsy.

Yudhistira sent Sahadeva to see what the matter was.

Arjuna wanted to destroy the unseen foe.
In these sentences to feel to see and to destroy just name the
action and they are not limited by number and person. It is called
the verb infinitive or simply the ‘infinitive’.
The word to is generally used with the infinitive.

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