Syllabus For 1st Term
BEEHIVE
Prose
1. The Fun They Had
2. The Sound of Music
3. The Little Girl
4. A Truly Beautiful Mind
5. ×××××××××××××××××××
6. My Childhood
Poems
1. The Road Not Taken
2. Wind
3. Rain on The Roof
4. ×××××××××××××××××××
5. A Legend of The Northland
MOMENTS
1. The Lost Child
2. The Adventures of Toto
3. ×××××××××××××××××××
4. In the Kingdom of Fools
5. The Happy Prince
BEEHIVE
01. The Fun They Had
Q. What did the Tom Margie imagined about the 2157?
Ans. The writer conveys the story of two children named Margie and Tommy. Margie made an entry in her diary. In which her wrote that a Tommy found a old book printed on paper. Their pages were yellow and wrinkled with words. Tommy thought it is waste book which was thrown in the dustbin after reading. The book was about the school.
Margie listen about it form her grandfather that in olden days they had a different type of the school and teacher mentioned the book. They read that the school had a man on teaching in place of mechanical teacher. These old kinds of school were many centuries ago. Tommy told him that the schools were special building where all the kids went to learn and same ages were to teach the same things. Tommy tucked the old dusty book under his arm and walked away whistling.
The mechanical teacher was teaching the Margie. She always hated the school because she had school in next to the bedroom. A mechanical teacher teaches her. She was doing worse more worse in geography. The county inspector told them the computer was a high speed to teach geography. He adjusted and satisfied her parents.
She was thinking about the old schools where her grandfathers’ grandfather were little child. Margie thought. What was the time when all the kid of whole neighborhood came in schoolyard? They play and read together. All kids of the same age learnt the same things and helped each other. What a fun was for children in olden days.
Q. How was Margie’s school different from the schools that existed hundreds of years ago from the lesson The Fun They Had
Ans. Margie’s school was at home and which was virtual. She had a virtual mechanical teacher. She studied from telebooks (e-books). There were no other students in her class. The words and letters were movable on the screen. The home work given by the mechanical teacher was fed in punch codes in the given slot. Everything in the class is seen on the mechanical device like a television or computer screen.
Whereas, in olden days the schools were far from the homes and real. These schools had proper buildings and classrooms. Students studies with real books. The letters and the words were fixed on the page. There were many students in a class. A real human teacher teaches and gave homework to the students. The teacher was able to ask questions and give the the answers of the problem of the students. Everyone learned the same things and read same books in same age group.
So, it is clearly visible that Margie’s school was totally different from the schools that existed hundreds of years ago.
02. The Song Of Music
(Part I)
02.01 Evelyn Glennie
Q. 1. How does Evelyn hear music?
Ans. Evelyn heard music by sensing the notes in different parts of her body. When Ron Forbes tuned two drums to different notes and asked her to sense the sound without using her ears, she realized that she could feel the higher drum from the waist up and the lower drum from the waist down. She learnt how to open her mind and body to sounds and vibrations. It was sheer determination and hard work. When she played the xylophone, she could sense the sound passing up the stick into her fingertips. By leaning against the drums, she could feel the resonances flowing into her body. On a wooden platform, she removed her shoes so that the vibrations could pass through her bare feet and up her legs. She herself said that music poured in through every part of her body. It tingled in the skin, her cheekbones and even in her hair.
Q. What qualities of character enabled Evelyn to pursue her dream of learning music and achieve success? what are the major accomplishments and achievements of Evelyn Glennie?
Ans. The chapter "Evelyn Glennie" is written by "Deborah Cowley".
This is a life journey of a physically disabled girl Evelyn Glennie who worked with detemination and made her life like a success story. The story teaches us how anyone overcome any disability, no one can stop you if you start once.
Evelyn Glennie had a loss of hearing and most of the teachers discouraged her add her education time, but she did not give up. The percussionist Ron Forbes spotted her potential and helped her to continue with music. Later, Evelyn learnt to open her mind and body to sounds and vibrations.
Evelyn has captured most of the top awards in the field of percussion. Inspite of achieving all the awards/achievements and performing the noble works like giving free concerts in prisons and hospitals, giving priority to young musicians etc, she does not accept any hint of her heroic and prestigious achievements and lives a very simple life. Evelyn believes that if one works hard and is concentrated towards his/her goals, no one can stop him/her from achieving the goal.
Evelyn is a perfect example of how one can pursue his/her desire with sheer determination and hardwork. She is an inspiration for disabled persons. They never find anything impossible in their life by Evelyn's journey. They get inspired and think that if Evelyn can achieve success inspite of being deaf, why cannot i! This inspires and motivates other disabled people in overcoming the disabilities with hardwork.
(Part II)
02.02 Bismillah Khan
Q. Write the character sketch of Bismillah Khan.
Ans. Ustad Bismillah Khan was a greatest shehnai player of India. He was born at Dumraon in Bihar in 21st march 1916. He belongs from a professional musician family. He used to play gilli-danda with other boys. In his childhood. After it he used to go nearby temple. Where he used to sing Chaita song. The local Maharaja felt pleased to hear him. He was regularly rewarded with a big Laddu Weighed 1.25 kg at the age of six he went to Banaras to learn shehnai by his uncle.
He practices for house in the temple of Balaji and Mangla Maya and also on the bank of river Ganga lonely. He has won many awards. He got his first big award at the age of 14 from all India Music conference of Allahabad. He was the awarded the Bharat Ratna the highest civilian award of India in 2001. He died with a long sickness in 21 Aug. 2006. A great musician apart from us for always.
Q. 1. Why did Aurangzeb ban the playing of the pungi?
Ans. Aurangzeb banned the playing of musical instrument pungi because it had a shrill, unpleasant sound.
Q. 2. How is a shehnai different from a pungi?
Ans. Shehnai has a better tonal quality than pungi. It is a natural hollow stem pipe with holes on its body and is longer and broader than the pungi. Shehnai is, in a way, an improvement upon the pungi.
Q. 3. Where was the shehnai played traditionally? How did Bismillah Khan change this?
Ans. The shehnai was traditionally played in royal courts, temples and weddings. Ustaad Bismillah khan, an undisputed monarch of shehnai brought this instrument onto the classical stage.
Q. 4. When and how did Bismillah Khan get his big break?
Ans. Bismillah khan got his big break in 1938. The All India Radio opened in Lucknow and Bismillah khan played shehnai on radio. He soon became an often heard player on radio. He became the first Indian to greet the nation with his shehnai from the Red Fort on 15 August, 1947.
Q. 5. Where did Bismillah Khan play the shehnai on 15 August 1947? Why was the event historic?
Ans. On 15 August 1947, Bismillah Khan played the Raag Kaafi on his shehnai from the Red Fort. The event was historical because it was on the occasion of India's Independence from British Rule.
Q. 6. Why did Bismillah Khan refuse to start a shehnai school in the U.S.A.?
Ans. Bismillah Khan refused one of his student's request to start a shehnai school in the U.S.A. because he would not live away from Hindustan, specifically, from Benaras, the River Ganga and Dumraon.
Q. 7. Find at least two instances in the text which tell you that Bismillah Khan loves India and Benaras.
Ans. The first instance is when he turned down his student’s offer to start a shehnai school in U.S.A. The second instance is when Khansaab was asked by Shekhar Gupta about moving to Pakistan during the partition, he said that he would never leave Benaras.
03. The Little Girl
Q. Why did Kezia stammer in front of her father ?
Ans. Kezia's father always scolded her and never spoke to her in a loving manner. Thus, she was afraid of him and found it difficult to speak in front of him. So, Kezia stammered in front of her father.
Q. Write a character sketch of kezia?
| Ans. Kezia was a sweet and little girl with childish innocence. She was always afraid of her father and feel nervous in his presence so she tried to stay away from her father as much as possible. According to Kezia her father looks like a gaint with very huge size, large head, neck and mouth. Her father did not behave politely he always behaved rudely and harshly to Kezia. once there was the birthday of her father. She tried to please him by making a birthday gift for him; She often thinks why her father could not be as loving as Mr. McDonald. |
Once her mother fell ill and was hospitalized. She was left alone at home under the care of the cook. At night she had a nightmare and woke up screaming.
She found that her father standing by her bedside. He took her up and tucked her up in his bed and soon fell asleep.
Kezia felt secure lying near her. She realized her father was not as big as a giant. Finally she realized her father was also very loving.
She felt the beating of her father’s loving and large heart. Finally she realized her father was also very loving.
Kezia was a little girl who was in delusion that her was cold towards her and did not like her and because of the delusion and tried to do everything right to avoid her father. but the girl acted scared only around her father. in reality she was adventurous and creative girl.
Kezia was a little girl who was in a delusion that her father was cold towards her and did not like her and because of this delusion she tried to stay away from her father as much as possible and tried to do everything right to avoid her father's wrath.But the girl acted scared only around her father. In reality she was a calm adventurous and creative girl who wanted to be loved by her father.
She took a great sigh of relief whenever he left for work. She trembled with fear whenever she confronted him. She would mumble in terror whenever she was near him. and she would try hard not to confront him whenever he was at home.
However, Kezia’s demeanour towards her father transformed soon. One day, suddenly her mother fell ill and was hospitalized. Her grandmother went along with her mother. So, Kezia was left alone in the house with no one around except the cook, Alice. During the daytime, everything went well but during night-time, Kezia found it hard to sleep. She had a dreadful nightmare of a butcher holding a knife and a rope, who came closer smiling wretchedly and she was unable to move from that place. This nightmare woke her up and when she opened her eyes she noticed that her father was standing right next to her. She understood that her father loved and cared for her in his own way. Kezia realised that her father was usually cranky every day for the hard work he did to earn a living for his family and was too tired by evening to come and play with her.
Q. Who was Kezia? Was her father right to punish her?
Ans. Kezia was a sweet little girl. She loved her father and afraid from him. His behevioour was like a stick person. So she looks like a demon. On his fathers birthday. She wanted to present him a nice gift. She decided to present a pin cushion to the father. She took a beautiful yellow silk and stitched it on three sides. She filled the father’s useful papers after tearing into the pin cushion. In evening her father came to house and asked about the papers. She did not answer. He picked up at he ruler and beat he. She was very upset.
Obviously he was not right to punish her. He did not know that his child was innocent. she did not understand her beating. So father was wrong to punish her.
Q. 1. Kezia’s efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him very much. How did this happen?
Ans. Kezia efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him. On every Sunday, her grandmother sent her down to the drawing room to have nice talk with father and mother. But her presence always irritated the father. He used to call her 'little brown owl'. One day her grandmother told her that her father's birthday would be next week and suggested that she should make him a pin-cushion for beautiful gift. After stitching three sides of the cushion with double cotton with great care and effort, Kezia was stuck as to what to fill the cushion with. Since her grandmother was busy in the garden, she searched her Mother's bedroom for scraps. Finally, she discovered sheets of paper on the bed table. She gathered these, tore them up and filled the cushion with the torn pieces. Unfortunately, her efforts to please her father not only went in vain but also had an unanticipated consequence. This was because the sheets she had torn were her father’s speech for the Port Authority. Her father scolded her for touching things that did not belong to her and punished her by hitting her palm with a ruler.
Q. 2. Kezia decides that there are “different kinds of fathers”. What kind of father was Mr Macdonald, and how was he different from Kezia’s father?
Ans. Kezia compared her father with Mr. Macdonald, her next door neighbour. He was a loving, gentle and forgiving father. He was always smiling and playing with his children. He treated his children in a friendly manner.
He was just opposite to the Kezia's father. Unlike Kezia's father he never punished his children. He played with them whenever he was free. Kezia's father was very harsh and a strict disciplinarian.
Q. 3. How does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy?
Ans. With her mother and grandmother at the hospital, Kezia is left at home in the care of Alice, the cook. At night, after she is put to bed by the cook, she has a nightmare.
She calls for her grandmother but, to her surprise, she finds her father standing near her bed. He takes her in his arms and makes her sleep next to him. Half asleep, she creeps close to him, snuggles her head under his arm, and holds tightly to his shirt. Her father asks her to rub her feet against his legs for warmth. Her father goes off to sleep before her. This makes her understand that he has to work hard every day and this leaves him too tired to be like Mr Macdonald. She expresses her altered feelings for her father by telling him that he has a 'big heart'.
06. My Childhood
Q. 1. How did Abdul Kalam earn his first wages ? How did he feel at that time?
Ans. At the time of second world war broke out in 1939. India was forced to join the allied force. Emergency was declared so that the the trains halted at the station of Rameshwaram was suspended.
The newspapers also came by the train so that the bundles of the newspaper were thrown out from the moving train between Rameshwaram and Dhanushkodi.
The cousin of Abdul Kalam was a newspaper distributor in Rameshwaram now he needed a helping hand to collect the bundles he found Abdul Kalam suitable for this job he engaged to Abdul Kalam to catch the bundles.
Abdul Kalam accepted the job and earn his first wages. He felt very proud of earning of his own money for the first time. He felt much happy to get it.
Q. 2. What happened in the classroom teacher came in the classroom? How did Lakshmana Sastry solve the problem?
Ans. The new teacher was quite orthodox in his outlook. He could not tolerate the Abdul Kalam who was a Muslim boy sitting with a Hindu Brahmin boy Ram Chandra Shastri. He forced Abdul to sit in the last.
With heavy heart he obeyed his teacher. Ramanand Shastri was also feeling sad. They went home and told about this incident to their parents. Ramanand Shastri father was a temple priest at Rameswaram. He called the teacher and asked him not to separate inequality and communal intolerance in the mind of the innocent children.
He strictly told him to either apologize or quit the school and the Island. The teacher realise his mistake and asked forgivness.
MOMENTS
1. The Lost Child
2. The Adventures of Toto
3. ×××××××××××××××××××
4. In the Kingdom of Fools
5. The Happy Prince
02. The Adventures of Toto
Q. Who was Toto? How the grandfather of author got it?
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What were the undesirable activities of Toto?
Ans. Toto is the name of a monkey which was bought by grandfather from a Tonga driver for give Rs. it was pretty with dangerous and mischief mind. Toto was disliked by grandmother but he was put in a little closet. Toto was tied to the wall peg. He uprooted it and tore off the blazer and also broke off the wall plaster. He frightened to Anglo India lady. He teases the animals of seventh quarter.
He did not let the other pets sleep at night. At the way of Sharanpur, he pokes his nose out of canvas kit. And grind at T.T. He was put with a donkey Nana. Toto held Nana’s ears with sharp little teeth. He jumped into the pod of boiling wate when it starting hot he jumped upadn down. Now he tested the warmth f water before bate. He also jubnped n\into the kettle in which wate had been kept boiling. And grand mother save him.
The brain of Toto was stuffed with numberless mischiefs. He broke plat. Utensils and did much more. Once he entered into the dinner room and ate up a full dish of pullaw, when grand mother cried on him. He throws the plate on her. He tore the curtains clothe andwll paper all tease points show the Toto’s unsuitable active its. In frustration theg grand father sold back to the Tonga driver and have sigh of relief.
04. The kingdom of fools
Q. When does the disciple remember the word of his Guru ?
And. The disciple remember the word of his Guru when he is arrested by king's men to execute him as he was fat enough to fit in the stake.
Q. How was the kingdom of fools different from other places?
Ans. In the kingdom of fools everything was strange and abnormal. The people of the kingdom used to sleep in the day and work in the night. The price of everything was same as single duddu. It all was strang so we can say that the kingom of fools was different from other places.
Q. Why did the guru want to leave the kingdom so quickly and why did the disciple decided to stay on?
Ans. The guru realised that the kingdom of fools was ruled by strange rules. So he considered the place was dangerous and anything could happen with them. Thus the Guru decided to leave it.
But, in greed, the deciple decided to stay in it because he wanted to enjoy the cheap and good food without any effort.
Q. Why did the servants of the king catch the discple ?
Ans.The rich merchant was proved victim, who was very thin .He was not found fit for stake or hang. The king ordered to find a person fit for the stake. The disciple was found fit for stake, so they caught him to hang him to dealth.
Q. Name all the people who are tried in the king’s court, and give the reasons for their trial.
A. The merchant was the first accused because his house’s wall collapsed and killed the thief. The next person was the bricklayer as it was thought his bad workmanship created a weak wall. Then the dancer was accused of distracting the bricklayer resulting in poor quality of the wall. Next accused was the goldsmith who called the dancer time to time and again to deliver the jewelry which in turn led to the distraction of the bricklayer. The goldsmith passed the buck on the merchant’s father as his pressure on the goldsmith delayed the finishing of dancer’s work. At last the wheel turned full circle and the blame came back to the original merchant.
05. The Happy Prince
Q. How did the swallow oblige the happy prince, and why?
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Q. In the City e of the Happy Prince, the swallow never missed the chance to go around the and admire the beauty of the city. What can we infer from this noticeable attribute of the swallow?
Ans. The Happy Prince is a statue fixed on a pedestal so he is unable to move. From there he's able to see the scenes of extreme poverty and suffering office people. When the prince was alive, he never knew about type of woe. He spent a happy and luxury life of the royal palace.
After his death his spirit embodied in the statue. He was shocked and very sad to know the reality of his Kingdom and was unable to know the reallty when he was alive. The prince wants to spread all of his to remove the grief of his country means.
As a little bird, swallow fly over the city which was left his companions. The snow stayed in the feet of the happy Prince. This gives him the opportunity to see and giving him a greater knowledge of the city.
The swallow ideally respond to the prince's request and take valuable objects from his statue and gave them to the city's poor and needy persons.
The Happy Prince becomes blind after donating his eyes. This the prince cannot see and so must depend on the bird for knowledge of the city beneath his statue. After distributing the all gold foils of their skin he becomes dull. Each of them obliged to each other for this noble work. The little bird swallow did it without eating and drinking.
Both of them died in this charity work.
Q. Compare similarities between the swallow and the prince.
Ans. The swallow and the prince both were kind hearted. They were moved deeply by the suffering of people. The prince wept to see the misery of the people. His tears fell on the swallow that was also moved to pity to see all this. He decided to help poor and part with his jewel, sapphires and gold. Swallow helped the prince by carrying all these things to needy people. Both found pleasure in helping others. Both did not hesitate in even sacrificing. Prince became blind in the effort of helping others. The swallow bears the cold and lives on crumbs.
The Packing
Q. 1 Who was the worst packer according to you? Justify your answer. [8]
Ans : According to me, the author is the worst packer. He didn’t make a checklist of things he needed to pack.
He first forgot to pack his boots. Then as soon as he had stuffed the boots in after a good struggle, he remembered if he had packed his toothbrush. He never learnt a lesson from his previous packing experiences.
Toothbrush continued to haunt his life. Though he had travelled innumerable times, he had again forgotten to pack his toothbrush. When he rummaged the things up to a state which resembled chaos before the world was created, he found in it another boot.
Finally, when he slammed and strapped the bag, he found that he had packed his spectacles. He had professed in the beginning that packing was one of the many things he knew more than anyone else. But the truth was anything but that.
Q. Of three Jerome, George and Harris, who is the best packer or wrost packer, support your answer ?
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How did George and Harris started packing write briefly?
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Who was the best packer Jerome, George or Harris?
Ans. There are three friends in this story. They are George, Jerome and Harish. Among them Jerome is best packer who had a good experience of packing so Jerome feels proud on his packing skills.
Jerome now better how to order the things and avoid possible loss. He thought that he know more about it, than any other person. On the other hand both George and Harish were wrost packer. They were careless and knew nothing about the skill of packing.
George and Harish start packing and spoil all the things. There were blades, cups, kettles, jar, pickle, cake and butter to pack. Both of them start packing by breaking a cup. Harish pack the strawberry jam on the top of tomato and squashed. In his turn Harish forget about the tomato so he checked tomato with a spoon.
They strapped the bag many times and forget to put in one thing or two things. Then they have to reopen the bag again and again.
George packed the heavy things on the top of the other things this smashed all the things. At the end the butter was searched which was stick behind the Harish because he sat on it. This butter was removed with spoon and put it in the teapot.
Q. 3. How did Montmorency contributes to the Packing?
Ans Montmorency was naughty little dog who loved creating troubles for others. He contributed a lot in the process of packing His days was wasteful if he did not disturb any work and poked his nose in troubled areas.
He made the people mad by his behaviour. During the packing he came and sat down on the things to be packed. He made sure whenever Harish aur George extend their hand for anything they got wet nose of Montmorency.
He pretended lemons for the rats and chased them throughout the room. He got into the hamper and spoiled three lemon to be rats. He put his legs into the gem. He was the perfect notions because whenever he found people busy with their work he might feel bored and wanted to get involved with him.
But when people shouting at him o r through things at his head. He got discouraged and went to sit silently.
Reach for the Top
Q. Write the character sketch of Santosh Yadav.
Ans. Santosh Yadav was born in happy landowners family in a small village of Rewari district in Haryana. In which society where the birth of a boy was blessing and the girl was a curse. She was only sister of five brothers.
She wore shorts while the girls of the village wore traditional Indian dresses. Her parents were quietly traditional and always followed prevailing custom. But she begin to live on her own terms from the childhood. She was sent to the village school for primary education. Her parents decide to marry her at the age of sixteen, but she refused early marriage without getting proper education. She decided to get proper education first.
She got admission in Delhi school. Her parents refused to send the expenditures to her. She threaten that she would earn by working part time so she got a part time job for getting education. After seeing her eagerness and determination, her parents started to give the expenditure of education.
After passing High school she entered into the Maharani College of Jaipur. She becomes a mountaineer. She joins Uttarkashi Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. She became the first lady who climb the Everest twice, for this she was awarded with Padma Shri Award. She also collected the garbage of the fifty kilometre of Himalayas and became a true environmentlist. This proves that she was a bold and courageous lady so by being a rebel she managed to choose her path to reach for the top.
Q. Write the character sketch of Maria Sharapova ?
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How do you now that Maria Sharapova was proud to be Russian? Why is she teenager sensation with the monetary gains?
Ans. Maria Sharapova was a Russian girl. She love her motherland Russia. She was born in middle class family of of USSR. Though she gets training and success in America yet she proud her Russian nationality. She always says that the US is a big part of my life but I am Russian at heart.
She reached US to get training. She worked hard and become the first lady of Ladies Singles crown at Wimbledon in 2004. She reached the Pinnacle in women's tennis 22nd August 2005.
She proudly says that she is a Russian. She was a true citizen of Russia. She has a keen desire to play Olympic for their country. She also had other skills as singing, dancing and fashion. She likes to read novels of Arthur Canan Doyle.
Maria says tennis is both a business and a sport. She considers money a great. She is passionate to keep her number position in the world. She is staying in Siberia to summit into the women's tennis by their hard efforts and cround by Wimbledon. This desire keeps her going on.
The Bond of Love
Q. How did the writer find the bear? What type of the relationship was between the lady and the bear ?
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Describe the title 'The Bond of Love' in your words. Also explain the relationship between the men and animals.
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'Love is mutual', Illustrate with reference to 'The Bond of Love' ?
Ans. 'The Bond of Love' is the story of emotional bonding between a woman and a bear. A trip to Mysore in a sugarcane field the writers friend killed a bear at the spot in a mishap. There was a baby bear on his back. They caught and brought the cub to the house. The writer's wife became very happy and named it Bruno.
He feed all the things available in house. She cooked a variety of dishes for him. Soon, he becomes the friend of the dogs, the tenant, children and even the family person of writer. He performs many playful tricks which give pleasure to her. They enjoyed each other's company.
Once he drink the poison Barium Chloride that was placed to kill rat and cat. By the help of a vat the Bruno recovered. After sometime his name was changed into Baba. When the Baba bear grow big he was considered as a dangerous animal for the children of the house due to his size.
Author decided to send him to zoo. The wife of Authur did not manage the easy without him. His departure was very painful for authors wife. His wife could not bear his separation. Baba also refused eating in zoo.
After three months, Finally she asked to her husband to visit Baba at the zoo. They both felt relieved on meeting. They spend many hours together so we can say love is mutual. The The other request to the manager after seeing the separation was very sad and painful to both of them. To see the love between them the manager of the zoo accept the request to return the Bruno back.
At the home, he was kept on an island in a small hut. Mrs Anderson reached there with the help of a rope. This shows that affectionate of love so that title The Bond Of Love is suitable for this story.
Q.2 Would you like to be the duck or the kangaroo? Explain.
Ans : I would like to be the duck because I can relate myself
with the duck’s character. The duck is frank, polite and sensible. She is frank about being bored in her pond but she is not ambitious to become a kangaroo.
She doesn’t dislike or hate her life as a duck but just wants to see the beautiful world around. She is humble while requesting the kangaroo to give a joy ride to her. She is sensible enough to understand the concern of the kangaroo. She doesn’t feel humiliated or becomes angry when the Kangaroo says that she has wet and cold feet. She doesn’t think that the kangaroo is trying to talk down to her. She is someone who accepts the reality gracefully and thinks on how to improvise the lreality to attain her purpose. This is a rare trait and this impresses me the most about the duck.
Answer any one of the questions in 100-150 words.
Q. 3. Describe the destruction wrought by the super cyclone
in Ersama in 1999. [8]
Ans : In the evening of 27 October, 1999, a dark and menacing storm quickly gathered. Winds beat against the houses with a speed and fury that none had witnessed before. Heavy and incessant rain and a wind of 350 km/hour uprooted the ancient trees and crashed down many houses. Air was filled with screams of people who were washed away. Trees crashed on Prashant’s friend’s house and the rise of water in the house compelled them to take refuge on the roof. As Prashant waded through the waters, to reach his family in Kaliguda he had to push away many human bodies — men, women, children — and carcasses of dogs, goats and cattle that the current swept against them as they moved ahead. Eighty six people of Prashant’s village had died. All the ninety-six houses had been washed away.
Q. 4 What happened when the author and his family reached the Logan Airport in Boston ?
Ans :
When the author and his family reached the Logan Airport in Boston, he suddenly remembered to take out the flyer pass from his bag. The zip on his bag got jammed. The zip tore apart from the bag when the author yanked at it the hardest. The side of the bag flew open and everything within — newspaper cuttings and other loose papers, a 14-ounce tin of pipe tobacco, magazines, passport, English money, film — was spilled over an area almost equal to a tennis court. The author was dumbstruck at the mess he had created around him. What disgusted him the most was that his lidless tin of tobacco went rolling down the concourse disgorging the entire content.
The thought of buying tobacco in England horrified him. From Tobacco, his mind went to his finger which he had gashed on the zip and was shedding blood profusely. He was confused and his wife was looking at him with simple wonder.
The Accidental Tourist
Summary
In “The Accidental Tourist” the writer narrates the incidences where he acts strangely. On various air trips, While travelling alone, he would not eat, drink or bend forward. He would even keep his hands under him to avoid mishaps.
Because he spills drinks on co - passengers. Its as if his arms work on their own, move towards the tray and knock - off the glass without his directions. He would be unable to get the air miles because either he could not present his card or the clerk refused to give him the points.
Once while opening his bag to get the card, he threw all the articles on the floor. Things flew here and there and there was complete chaos. Also, on another trip, the ink from his pen smeared his mouth, teeth, gums and chin. His face turned blue and would remain like that for a couple of days.
Once he bend forward to tie his shoelace when the front seat went into a recline position and his head got stuck there. Whenever he ate a meal, the dining table was a complete mess and it appeared as if an earthquake had struck the place.
His family was accustomed to it and when they got their meal, they would get alert to prevent being victims of the spillovers. He never managed to get the airmiles and would not travel free of cost to Bali but that was good in a way. He could not remain without food on such a long flight.
NCERT Solutions for
Class 9th:
The Snake Trying (Poem) Beehive English
By W.W.E. Ross
Q. What is the summary or central idea of the poem snake trying?
Ans. The central Idea shows that In the poem ,the poet tries to say that all snakes are not poisonous. Some them are quite harmless.
It is foolish to kill a snake as soon as we see it. Even if a snake is poisonous, it will do us no harm if it dosen’t see any danger from us . A snake always bites in self protection only.
Otherwise, it is an harmless as any other creature. But sadly human beings always try to kill a snake as soon as they see it.
Thinking about the Poem
I.
Q.1. What is the snake trying to escape from?
A. It is trying to escape from the stroke of a stick.
Q.2. It is a harmful snake? What is its clour?
A. No, The snake is not harmful even to small children. It is of green colour.
Q.3. The poets finds the snake beautiful. Find the words he uses to convey its beauty.
A. The words the poet uses to convey the snake’s beauty are “beautiful” and “graceful”.
Q.4. What does the poet wish for the snake?
A. The poet wishes the snake to escape unhurt. He wants it to go over the water into the reeds to hide.
Q.5. Where was the snake before anyone saw it and chased it away? Where does the snake disappear?
A. The snake was lying along the sandy bank till someone saw it and again chased it away. The snake disappeared in the ripples of the water among the green reeds.
II.
1. Find out as much as you can about different kinds of snakes (from books in the library, or from the Internet). Are they all poisonous? Find out the names of some poisonous snakes.
Answer
1. No, all snakes are not poisonous. Some of the poisonous snakes are Indian Cobra, Common Krait, Russell's Viper and Saw-scaled Viper.
Class 9th
Reach for the top
Santosh Yadav
Q. How does the rain affect the poet according to the chapter rain on the roof?
Or
What is the impact of rain on the poet of "Rain on the Roof" ? How does it affect you?
Ans. Every drop of rain falling on the roof makes a tinkling sound that moves the poet's heart. These sounds rouse a number of imaginary things in the thoughts of an otherwise busy poet. The soft pitter-patter of the falling rain-drops also revives many childhood memories.
Q. Write the character sketch of Iswaran.
Ans. Iswaran was Mahendra’s cook and was like an asset to him. He was dedicated to his master and followed him uncomplainingly to all his postings. He would cook for him, wash his clothes, and also chat with him at night. He had the ability to improvise cooking material even at the remotest place and cooked delicious dishes in a very brief time.
Iswaran was fond of reading popular Tamil thrillers. Their imaginative descriptions and narrating styles would fascinate him. He became a master storyteller by adopting the art of storytelling from these novels. He would always add suspense and surprise even to the smallest incident and could make up innumerable stories on different subjects. While describing, he would get so involved that he would jump about on the floor. He would narrate the story in installments and would purposely leave it unfinished midway. On returning, he would not pick it up right away till Mahendra reminded him to. In this manner he would involve his listener too.
Every day, Iswaran would recount a new story filled with adventure, horror and suspense. Mahendra loved his stories and listened with rapt attention even if they were unbelievable. Iswaran thus entertained Mahendra just as TV does.
Iswaran enjoyed his job and would not sit idle when Mahendra was at work. He would use that time to tidy up the shed and wash clothes. He was also religious because he would mutter a prayer throughout his bath ritual.
This character displays a shade of comedy as well when he teasingly asks Mahendra about his reaction at having seen the female ghost.
Q. Write the character sketch of Mahendra.
Ans. Mahendra used to work as a junior supervisor in a firm which offered on hire supervisors at construction sites. His work involved moving from one site to another. He was unmarried and a simple man. He was quite accommodating and adjusted well to odd conditions that he faced at different places. He was a disciplined man and would get up early in the morning. He would leave for work after breakfast and carry lunch with him.
Mahendra was very fond of his cook Iswaran whom he considered to be an asset. He relished the food cooked by him and enjoyed listening to his stories. He was a good listener and never interrupted Iswaran even when he exaggerated. He was very patient and would wait for Iswaran to return and complete the unfinished story. He was also curious as he would insist on knowing all the details.
Mahendra was a rational man and did not believe in ghosts or spirits but could not help getting influenced by what Iswaran told him about the female ghost. He tried to ignore the strange sounds at night but got scared when he saw the apparition. However, his rationality made him forget the previous night’s experience.
Mahendra’s faith in Iswaran was very strong. He was convinced about the presence of a female ghost when Iswaran told him that he had heard sounds at night.
This character appeals to the reader for his qualities as a devoted worker, a kind-hearted master and a trusting man.
Q. Why did Mahendra decide to leave the haunted place ?
Ans. Mahendra was afraid of the haunted place after hearing and watching a ghastly experience at night. He found that he often dreamt of the woman ghost. Therefore, he wanted to leave the place.
Q. Why did narrator feel some pain in his left arm ?
Ans. The snake has coiled itself around narrator's arm, it was experiencing a lot of pain.
At the time of pain he was feeling as if a thick molten rod made of lead was crushing his arm and breaking it. He felt helpless. He could not do anything to save himself.
The Happy Prince,
Class 9
English
Summary
Once there lived a prince in a town. He was called the Happy Prince because he had spent his whole life happily in a beautiful palace.
After his death, his beautiful statue was erected on a tall pedestal in the middle of his town. The statue was covered with gold foil. Two precious sapphire stones embedded in his eyes. A ruby stone was fitted into the handle of his sword.
This place was so high that, from there, he could see all around the place and triple office country. In his helpless state is he realized that the people lived in a lot of poverty and misery. This saddened the helpless prince, he weep to see the plight and wor of his people.
One day a swallow bird was flying through the city to Egypt. He was left wing with his friends and family. It took shelter for the night at the feet of the statue of the happy prince.
The bird realized that the statue was weeping on the plight of the prince. The helpless prince requested the bird to help it by becoming its messenger. After initial refusal, the bird agreed and took the ruby stone out of the sword hilt and delivered it to a poor seamstress. The next morning, as he went to bid goodbye, the statue convinced him to stay back for one more day. That day, the bird was asked to remove the sapphire stone from one of the statue’s eyes and deliver it to a young playwright. Also, on the third day the bird had to pull out the second sapphire stone for a poor match girl. By this time, the weather had become cold and the bird had developed an attachment with the statue. The bird did not want to leave the statue which had now become blind. The happy prince asked the bird to go around the city and inform him the condition of the people living there. The bird told him that the rich were making merry while the poor lived in misery. As the happy prince did not have any more precious stones, he ordered the bird to remove the gold foils from his body and distribute among the living who needed money for survival. Gradually, the statue of the prince lost its covering of gold and became dull and grey. On the other hand, the poor became joyous as they got bread to eat. The swallow bird was now unable to withstand the cold weather and realized that death was approaching. It informed the statue that it had to leave and the statue, who loved the bird asked it to kiss him. As the bird died and fell at the statue’s feet, a strange sound came out of the statue - the sound of the breaking of its heart. Although the statue’s heart was made of lead, it broke as it was overwhelmed with affection towards the bird. When the statue was melted in the furnace, the heart did not melt and was thrown in the garbage. It landed near the swallow’s body. God’s angels took both the dead swallow and the broken heart to him as they were the most precious things on land.
Q. Mahendra calls ghosts or spirits a figment of the imagination. What happens to him on a fullmoon night?
Ans. Mahendra scolds Iswaran and says that ghosts do not exist. Iswaran conveyance him that on a full moon night, he woke up from his sleep as he heard someone crying. At first, he thought that it was a cat which was hunting mice. I I i 10 my mind from this sound but as the sound grew louder and harsher, I was tempted to peep out of the window.
In the white moonlight, he saw a dark, shady figure holding a bundle in its arms. Initially, he got scared but overcame it as. He felt that his subconscious mind had played a trick on him. The next day, the presence of the ghost was confirmed by Iswaran and Mahendra realized that he actually saw a ghost the previous night. He did not want to live at a haunted place and so, resigned from the job.
Q. How the iswaran the school children's life from the mad elephant?
Or
How how the iswaran control the mad elephant in his childhood?
Ans. Iswaran often in his stories narrated about elephants. For example, he told a story about how he paralyzed a mad elephant that had gone berserk. He told that there were timber logs loaded on trucks. But if an elephant went mad no mahout could control it. The elephant now entered a school ground where children were playing, breaking through the brick wall. Children and teachers ran helter and skelter to save their lives. The elephant was stunned when Iswaran then only a little boy took a rod and hit at the elephant’s third toe nail. The secret was if the elephant is hit there, his nervous system gets paralyzed.
The Snake and the Mirror
Summary
It is the story of a homeopathic doctor who encountered with a snake in his room. Hindi story, The doctor lived in a small rented room which was an outhouse with two windows and a tiled roof. There was no electricity supply to the room thus it has dim light. This place was infested with rats.
One hot summer night, the doctor returned home from restaurant after taking meal. He lighted the kerosene lamp, took off his coat and shirt and opened the both windows. He settled on the chair and took out a medical book to read.
There was a large mirror on the table on which stood a lamp. He was unable to sleep because it was too hot so he started admiring himself in the mirror. Shortly, his thoughts shifted from self-admiration to planning his marriage. He thought that he would marry a rich doctor, having a good practice. He would choose a fat lady as his wife so that she would not be able to run and catch him.
He was deeply lost in his day dreaming that he did not pay any attention the sudden silence. He avoid the rats had stopped scampering and sound of something falling behind him.
He slowly react to have a look, a cobra snake had wriggled over the back of the chair and landed on his shoulders which coiled around his left arm, above the elbow.
It was a dangerous cobra which was hardly three inches from his face. The doctor why thrilled and converted like a stone statue with fear. His thoughts were thinking about various medicines he had but there is no sufficient medicine to save the snake bite.
In this moment of fear of death, The doctor realized the presence of God. God punished him for being too proud and arrogant. Now, he was mere human, a poor man.
The snake crawled off and sat on the table in front of the mirror. The doctor got up silently and rushed out of the room.
Next morning he returned, all his belongings had been robbed but for his dirty vest which was too dirty even for the thief.
The Happy Prince
Q. Write the character sketch of Happy Prince.
Ans. Happy Prince is the story of a prince who lived in a happy palace in which he did not know about the sadness and any type of woe.
After his death, his gold plated, golden statue was situated in the middle of the city on a high place. His eyes were made up of two bright sapphires. A Rubi was fitted in his sword hilt.
Once a swallow stayed in his feet who left behind their group. The sky was clear but a drop of water fell on the swallow. He saw that the prince was weeping to see the woe of the person of his City. The swallow wanted to fly away to Egypt but he stay there on the request of the Happy Prince.
By the help of swallow he send his Rubi to an old Seamastress to fulfill the wishes of his I'll son. He also send one Sapphire of his eye to the playmate to complete his play and then the Sapphire of his second eye to the poor girl who was selling the matchsticks but unfortunately her matches fall in the gutter.
At the end the Happy Prince distributed his all the gold foils among the poor. That night both of them died. The beautiful statue turn into the ugly statue.
The mayor of the town order to demolition to bad statue and to through the dead swellow into the dust. The statue was melted but his heart remain same. It neither melt nor broke. His heart was also thrown into the dust.
with the charity work of happy Prince the salon became the most precious thing of the city. Because the angel's of the God considered that the heart of the happy Prince and the swallow are two most precious things of the world.
Q. Once the God said to one of his Angel "Bring me the most two most precious things" is the Angel is the Angel able to bring this. If yes, what were they and what did the God said about these things?
Ans. Once the God said to one of his Angel to "Bring me the two most precious things in the city".
Yes, the Angel becomes able to bring these things? They were the Laden heart and a dead Bird.
Then God praised and said to the angle that you have taken a right decision. He also said that for in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing forever more and in my city of the gold the happy Prince shall praise me.
Is There A Possibility Of Life On Mars?
There is a huge population on the earth. The Earth's area is limited to live therefore the scientist of the world are searching the life on other planets. The possibility of life on Mars is a subject of significant interest to astrobiology due to its proximity and similarities to Earth.
There is no proof of present of life on Mars. It is assumed that during the ancient time period, the surface environment of Mars had liquid water which is the evidence for the habitable for microorganisms.
The searche for evidence of life starts with telescope in the 19th century, and continue today via probes. Modern science is searching for water and chemicals biosignatures in the soil and rocks of marks.
The birth of Mars becomes with the solar system like the early Earth. Distance of the mark shows it's cold climate and legs plate tectonics or continental trips. The prebiotic conditions leading to abiogenesis, that life does not or has never existed here. But life might have started developing on earth as early as 4.48 billion years ago. The search for evidence of habitability, taphonomy (related to fossils), and organic compounds on Mars is now in a primary NASA and ESA objective.
The probes findings of organic compounds inside sedimentary rocks on Mars and previous discoveries that liquid water was clearly present on ancient Mars, supports the possible of early life inhabitability of Gale Crater on Mars.
NASA told that the surface of Mars is bathed with radiation, and reaction with perchlorates on the surface, may be more toxic to microorganisms than thought earlier. Therefore, if life exists on Mars, it could be found in the subsurface of the Mars.
In June 2018, NASA announced the detection of methane on Mars which could be produced by microorganisms or by geological means.
The European ExoMars Trace Gases of the atmospheric in April 2018, and in the 2020 ExoMars rover will drill and analyze subsurface samples.
The NASA Mars 2020 rover will cache dozens of drill samples for their potential transport to Earth laboratories in the late 2020s or 2030s.
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