NCERT CLASS 9 SOLUTION
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CLASS - IX
BEEHIVE
Story
Lesson-1:
Lesson-2:
The Sound of Music
Lesson-3:
The Little Girl
Lesson-4:
A Truly Beautiful Mind
Lesson-5:
The Snake and the Mirror
Lesson-6:
My Childhood
Lesson-7:
Packing
Lesson-8:
Reach for the Top
Lesson-9:
The Bond of Love
Lesson-10:
Kathmandu
Lesson-11:
If I Were You
Lesson-12:
A Visit of Kaziranga and Sivasagar
POEM
The Road Not Taken
Wind
Rain of the Roof
The Lake Island of Innisfree
A Legend of the Northland
No Men Are Foreign
The Duck and the Kangaroo
On Killing a Tree
Trees
The Snake Trying
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Class 9 English Chapter-1 | The Fun They Had
The Fun They Had Question and Answer
The Fun They Had
The Fun They Had Short Question and Answer
Q. How old are Margie and Tommy?
Ans:- Margie is eleven (11) and Tommy is thirteen (13) years old.
Q. What did Margie write in her diary?
Ans:- Margie write in her diary that “Today Tommy found a real
book”.
Q. Had Margie ever seen a book before.
Ans:- No, Margie had never seen a book before.
Q. What thing about the book did she find strange?
Ans:- Margie found strange that the word printed on the book was
still, the word did not move as they move on
the computer screen she also
found it strange that the words on a page always remind the same as the first the time they were read.
Q. What do you thank a talebook is?
Ans:- A telebook is a television screen which has a million books on it and its good for
plenty more.
Q. Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?
Ans:- Margie’s School was in
her home itself, right next to her bedroom.
No, She did not have any classmates.
Q. What subject did Margie and Tommy learn?
Ans:- Geography, history, and Arithmetic.
1. "I wouldn't through it away"
The Fun They Had objective Question and Answer
1. "I wouldn't through it away"
i) Who says these words?
Ans:- Tommy.
ii) What does "it" refer to?
Ans:- It refers to the television screen.
iii) What is it being compared with the speaker?
Ans:- The speaker is comparing the television screen to the real book of earlier.
2. "Sure they teacher, but it wasn't a regular teacher. It was a man."
i) Who does "they" refer to?
Ans:- They refer to the student who student in the old kind of school.
ii) What does "regular" mean here?
Ans:- Here regular refers to the mechanical teacher.
iii) What is it contrasted with?
Ans:- The mechanical teacher is contrasted with the earlier teacher, who was a human being.
The Fun They Had Long Question and Answer
Q.1. What kind of Teacher did Margie and Tommy have?
Ans:- Margie and Tommy had a mechanical teacher. They were largely black and ugly and had a large black screen on which all the lessons were shown and questions were asked. This mechanical teacher had a fixed time in which the students had to put their homework and examination. They write their answer in punchcoud the mechanical teacher calculates the marks immediately.
Q.2. Why did Margie's mother send for the County Inspector?
Ans:- Margie had been given many tests in geography by the mechanical teacher but there was no improvement in her performance marks went worse and worse. It is for this reason her mother sent for the County Inspector to find out the reason, because of which this was happening.
Q.3. What did he do?
Ahs:- The county Inspector gave Margie an apple and started working on the mechanical teacher. Margie had hoped the inspector would not know how to put the mechanical teacher together again, but he managed to reassemble it he slowed down the geography sector of the mechanical teacher because it was geared a little too quick for an average ten years old.
Q.4. Why was Margie doing badly in geography? What did the County Inspector do to help her?
Ans:- Margie was doing badly in geography because the geography sector of the mechanical teacher had been geared a little quick. The county Inspector rightly told her that she could not be blamed for her poor performance. "The county Inspector slowed down the geography sector of the mechanical teacher to an average of ten years. He also told that Margie's overall progress pattern was satisfactory.
Q.5 What had once happened to Tommy's teacher?
Ans:- Once the history sector of Tommy's teacher had blanked out completely.
Q.6. Did Margie have regular days and hours for school? If so, why?
Ans:- Yes, Margie had regular days and hours for school.
This was because her mother believed that learning at regular hours helped the student learn better. Her mechanical teacher was also on at the same time every day except Saturday and Sunday.
Q.7. How did Tommy describe the old kind of school?
Ans:- Tommy describes the old kind of school as a special building. All the kids from the whole neighborhood came here to learning, laughing and shouting in the schoolyard. they sitting together and going together at the end of the day. They learn the same thing so they could help one another with the homework and talk about it.
Q.8. How does he describe the old kind of teacher?
Ans:- Tommy descrives the old kind of teacher was men, who thought the students inside a special building. The teachers taught the students in groups and gave them homework and asked them questions.
THE ROADE NOT TAKEN
Q.1. Where does the traveller find himself? What problem does he face?
Ans:- The traveller finds himself min the yellow woods at a point where the road forks into two.
The problem he faced was which road should be chosen by him because it is not possible for him to trable both road at the same time.
Q.2. Discuss what these phrases mean to you.
i) A yellow wood.
= Yellow wood syumbolises the autumn season Autumn corresponds which old age. The poet is most probably talking about the last stage of life.
ii) It was grassy and wear.
= It conveys that the road which was full of grass but nobody had used that road. It was a smooth road which had not worn out.
iii) The passing there.
= The passing there refer to walking on the road.
iv) Leaves on step had trodden black.
= The leaves had not changed their colour and turned black because of less people steping on them.
It could represent a path on may have never/seldom talken in life far the of uncertainty.
v) How was leads on the way.
= The phrases means how certain decisions one makes in life could pave the way far many other decisions.
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Q.1. How old was Evelyn when she went to the Royal Academy of Music?
Ans:- Evelyn was 16/17 years old when she went to the Royal bAcademy of Music.
Q.2. When was her deafness first noticed? When was it confirmed?
Ans:- Her deafness was first noticed when she was eight years old and it was confirmed when she was eleven.
Q.3. Who helped her to continue with music? what did he do and say?
Ans:- Ron Forber helped her continuewith music by tuning two large drums to different notes and he said "don't listen the music through your ears, try to sence it some other way."
Q.4. Name the various place and causes for which Evelyn performs.
= Evelyn with a hectic internuational schedule given solo performances at regular concerts. Apart from these, she gives free concerts in prisons and haspitals. She also accords high priority to classes far young musicians.
Q.5. How does Evlyn hear music?
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