Post-UTME English Language 2009 Objective — Question 1

[Passage: Alan, a friend who likes country life, is fishing in a river; the fish slips off the hook, flies over his head and lands in a field where picnickers are gathered. When they ask what he's doing, he claims fish jump out of the river to look for flies, then secretly finds his fish in the grass and shows it to them, pretending to be hunting for another.] Why did the fish land in the field?

• A. It had wings
• B. It was a flying fish
• C. It was looking for food
• D. It fell off the hook.Correct