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HBSE Class 9 English Beehive Story Based Section Important Passages
The young boy took to music early in life. At the age of three when his mother took him to his maternal uncle’s house in Benaras (now Varanasi), Bismillah was fascinated watching his uncles practise the Shehnai. Soon Bismillah started accompanying his uncle, Ali Bux, to the Vishnu temple of Benaras where Bux was employed to play the Shehnai. Ali Bux would play the Shehnai and Bismillah would sit captivated for hours on end. Slowly, he started getting lessons in playing the Instrument and would sit practising throughout the day. For years to come the temple of Balaji and Mangala and the banks of the Ganga became the young apprentice’s favourite haunts where he could practise in solitude. The flowing water of the Ganga inspired him to improvise and invent ragas that were earlier considered to be beyond the range of Shehnai.
Questions :
(i) Name the chapter from which these lines have been taken.
(ii) Who is “The young boy” ?
(iii) Who is Ali Bux ?
(iv) Where was Ali Bux employed to play the Shehnai ?
(v) Pick out a word from the passage which means ‘enchanted’ ?
They upset salt over everything, and as for the butter! I never saw two men do more with one-and-two pence worth of butter in my whole life than they did. After George had got it off his slipper, they tried to put it in the kettle. It wouldn’t go in, and what was in wouldn’t come out. They did scrape it, out at last, and put it down on a chair, and Harris sat on it, and it stuck to him, and they went looking for it all over the room.
Questions :
(i) Name the chapter and the author .
(ii) Who does ‘I’ refer to in this passage ?
(iii) Who are the other two men in the passage ?
(iv) What were they looking for all over the room ?
(v) Find a word from the passage which means ‘to remove by scratching’.
However, the rapid ascent in a fiercely competitive world began nine years before with a novel of sacrifice few children would be prepared to endure. Little Martia had not yet celebrated her tenth birthday when she was packed off to train in the United States. That trip to Florida with her father Yuri launched her on the path to success and stardom. But it also required a heart wrenching two-year separation from her mother Yelena. The latter was compelled to stay back in Siberia because of visa restrictions. The nine-year-old girl had already learnt an important lesson in life that tennis excellence would only come at a price.
Questions :
(i) Name the chapter from which these lines have been taken.
(ii) How old was Maria when she was sent to the United States ?
(iii) Who was Yuri ?
(iv) Why was Maria’s mother compelled to stay back in Siberia ?
(v) Give a word from the passage that means ‘Parting’.
Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed 17 May, 2157, she wrote, “Today Tommy found a real book!” It was a very old book. Margie’s grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper. They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving they way they were supposed to – on a screen, you know. And then when they turned back to the page before, it had the same words on it that it had when they read it the first time.
Questions :
(i) Name the chapter from which these lines have been taken. Also write the name of the writer.
(ii) What did Margie write in her diary ?
(iii) Had Margie ever seen a book before ?
(iv) ‘They turned the pages’. Who does ‘they’ refer to ?
(v) What was funny about the book ?
EMPEROR Aurangeb banned the playing of a musical instrument called pungi in the royal residence for it had a shrill unpleasant sound. Pungi became the generic name for receded noisemakers. Few had thought that it would one day be revived. A barber of a family of professional musicians, who had access to the royal palace, decided to improve the tonal quality of the pungi. He chose a pipe with a natural hollow stem that was longer and broader than the pungi, and made seven holes on the body of the pipe.
Questions: 1×5=5
(i) Name the chapter and the author.
(ii) What was a pungi?
(iii) Who banned the playin of pungi in the royal residence?
(iv) What decision did the barber take?
(v) Find a word from the passage which means ‘high-pitched sound’.
The Second World War broke out in 1939, when I was eight years old. For reasons I have never been able to understand, a sudden demand for tamarind seeds erupted in the market. I used to collect the seeds and sell them to a provision shop on Mosque Street. A day’s collection would fetch me the princely sum of one anna. My brother-in-law Jallaluddin would tell me stories about the War which I would later attempt to trace in the headlines in Dinamani. Our arca, being isolated, was completely unaffected by the War. But soon India was forced to join the Allied Forces and something like a state of emergency was declared. The first casualty came in the form of the suspension of the train halt at Rameswaram station.
Questions:1×5-5
(i) Name the chapter and the author.
(ii) When did the Second World War break out?
(iii) What thing rose in sudden demand after the Second World War broke out ?
(iv) What do you think ‘Dinamani’ is the name of ?
(v) Pick out a word from the passage which means ‘to bring’.
The Second World War broke out in 1939, when I was eight years old. For reasons I have never been able to understand, a sudden demand for tamarind seeds erupted in the market. I used to collect the seeds and sell them to provision shop on Mosque Street. A day’s collection would fetch me the princely sum of one anna. My brother-inlaw Jallaluddin would tell me stories about the War which I would later attempt to trace in the headlines in Dinamani.
Questions :
(a) Name the chapter and the writer.
(b) What is the age of the speaker in these lines ?
(c) What did the speaker earn each day by selling the tamarind seeds ?
(d) What is ‘Dinamani’ ?
(e) Find in the passage a word that means ‘rose’.
Then my son and I advised my wife, and friends advised her too, to give Baba to the zoo at Mysore. He was getting too big to keep at home. After some weeks of such advice she at last consented. Hastily, and before she could change her mind, a letter was written to the curator of the zoo. Did he want a tame bear for his collection ? He replied, “Yes”. The zoo sent a cage from Mysore in a lorry, a distance of eighty-seven miles, and Baba was packed off.
Questions :
(a) Name the chapter and its author.
(b) Who was Baba ?
(c) What advice was given by the author and his son ?
(d) Why did the author’s wife take time to give consent to their advice ?
(e) Find in the passage a word that means ‘hurry’.
Then there was no looking back for this determined young girl. She saved money and enrolled in a course at Uttarkashi’s Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. “My college semester in Jaipur was to end in April but it ended on the nineteenth of May. And I was supposed to be in Uttarkashi on the twenty-first. So, I did not go back home; instead, I headed straight for the training. I had to write a letter of apology to my father without whose permission I had got myself enrolled at Uttarkashi.”
Questions :
(a) Name the determined girl mentioned in the passage.
(b) Where did she enroll herself for mountaineering training ?
(c) Why did she not go back to home from Jaipur ?
(d) Why did she apologise to her father ?
(e) Find in the passage a word that means ‘consent’.
Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed 17 May 2157, she wrote, “Today Tommy found a real book!” It was a very old book. Margie’s grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper. They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to – on a screen, you know. And then when they turned back to the page before, it had the same words on it that it had when they read it the first time.
Choose the correct option : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter from which these lines have been taken.
(A) The Fun They Had
(B) The Sound of Music
(C) The Little Girl
(D) A Truly Beautiful Mind
(ii) Name the author of the given lines.
(A) Bismillah Khan
(B) Isaac Asimov
(C) Jerome. K. Jerome
(D) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
(iii) On which date, Margie made an entry in her diary ?
(A) 20 May 2157
(B) 19 May 2157
(C) 18 May 2157
(D) 17 May 2157
(iv) Who found a real book ?
(A) Margie
(B) County Inspector
(C) Mechanical Teacher
(D) Tommy
(v) Who told Margie once about real books ?
(A) Tommy
(B) County Inspector
(C) Margie’s grandfather
(D) Margie’s mother
At the age of two-and-a-half, Einstein still wasn’t talking. When he finally did learn to speak, he uttered everything twice. Einstein did not know what to do with other children, and his playmates called him “Brother Boring”. So the youngster played by himself much of the time. He especially loved mechanical toys. Looking at his new born sister, Maja, he is said to have said : “Fine, but where are her wheels ?”
Choose the correct option : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter from which the lines have been taken.
(A) The Fun They Had
(B) A Truly Beautiful Mind
(C) The Little Girl
(D) The Sound of Music
(ii) When Albert learnt to speak, he uttered everything …. .
(A) Thrice
(B) Twice
(C) Once
(D) None
(iii) What toys did Albert like specifically as a child ?
(A) Racing Cars
(B) Mechanical toys
(C) Soft Toys
(D) None
(iv) What was the name of Albert’s younger sister ?
(A) Mary
(B) Michelle
(C) Maja
(D) Monica
(v) What did little Albert say looking at her newborn sister ?
(A) Beautiful, where did she come from ?
(B) Fine, but where are her wheels ?
(C) Cute, but here are her wheels ?
(D) Lovely, but where are her wheels ?
I ran up to it to attempt a capture. It scooted into the sugarcane field. Following it with my companions, I was at last able to grab it by the scruff of its neck while it snapped and tried to scratch me with its long, hooked claws. We put it in one of the gunny-bags we had brought and when I got back to Bangalore I duly presented it to my wife. She was delighted! She at once put a coloured ribbon around its neck, and after discovering the cub was a ‘boy’ she christened it Bruno.
Choose the correct option : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter from which the lines have been taken.
(A) The Fun They Had
(B) Truly Beautiful Mind
(C) The Little Girl
(D) The Bond of Love
(ii) Name the author of the given lines.
(A) Isaac Asimov
(B) Bismillah Khan
(C) Kenneth Anderson
(D) Jerome. K. Jerome
(iii) Who does ‘I’ refer to in these lines ?
(A) Author’s friend
(B) Author himself
(C) Author’s wife
(D) None of the above
(iv) They put the baby sloth bear in one of the …. .
(A) cages
(B) gunny bags
(C) animal jails
(D) wooden box
(v) The author presented the sloth bear to …. .
(A) the Zoo Department
(B) his wife
(C) his friend
(D) the Museum
MARGIE even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed 17 May 2157, she wrote, “Today Tommy found a real book!” It was a very old book. Margie’s grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper. They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to – on a screen, you know.
Choose the correct option:1×5=5
(i) Name the chapter from which these lines have been taken :1
(A) The Little Girl
(B) The Fun They Had
(C) The Sound of Music
(D) A Truly Beautiful Mind
(ii) Name the author of the given lines.
(A) William Shakespeare
(B) Isaac Asimov
(C) Robert Frost
(D) Patrick Pringle
(iii) Who found a real book?
(A) Tommy
(B) Mommy
(C) County Inspector
(D) Margie
(iv) How were the pages of the book?
(A) Red and Bright
(B) Yellow and Crinkly
(C) Green and Mossy
(D) Blue and Fresh
(v) What is the date written on the head of the page?
(A) 16th May, 2157…
(B) 17th May, 2157.
(C) 18th May, 2157
(D) 19th May, 2157
In 1900, at the age of 21, Albert Einstein was a university graduate and unemployed. He worked as a teaching assistant, gave private lessons and finally secured a job in 1902 as a technical expert in the patent office in Bern. While he was supposed to be assessing other people’s inventions, Einstein was actually developing his own ideas in secret. He is said to have jokingly called his desk drawer at work the “bureau of theoretical physics”.
Choose the correct option: 1×5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter from which these lines have been taken:
(A) A Truly Beautiful Mind
(B) The Fun They Had
(C) The Sound of Music
(D) Weathering the Storm in Ersama
(ii) When did Einstein pass graduation ?
(A) 1899
(B) 1900
(C) 1901
(D) 2157
(iii) What job did he get in 1902 ?
(A) Technical Expert,
(B) Doctor
(C) Technical Assistant
(D) Scientist
(iv) Where did he get that job?
(A) Patent Office in Elm
(B) Patent Office in Bern
(C) Patent Office in New York
(D) Patent Office in Afghanistan
(v) What did he call his desk drawer ?
(A) Bureau of Quantum Mechanics
(B) Bureau of Technical Assistant
(C) Bureau of Theoretical Physics
(D) Bureau of Theory of Relativity
Then there was no looking back for this determined young girl. She saved money and enrolled in a course at Uttarkashi’s Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. “My-college semester in Jaipur was to end in April but it ended on the nineteenth of May. And I was supposed to be in Uttarkashi on the twenty-first. So, I did not go back home; instead, I headed straight for the training. I had to write a letter of apology to my father without whose permission I had got myself enrolled at Uttarkashi”.
Choose the correct option:1 x5=5
(i) Who does ‘I’ refer to in these lines?
(A) Santoshi Yadav
(B) Santosh Yadav
(C) Veena Yadav
(D) Vinod Yadav
(ii) From which chapter these lines have been taken ?
(A) The Sound of Music.
(B) The Little Girl
(C) A Truly Beautiful Mind
(D) Reach for the Top: Santosh Yadav
(iii) Whom did she write an apology letter?
(A) Her father
(B) Her cousin
(C) Her brother
(D) Her nephew
(iv) Why did she write an apology letter to him?
(A) As she failed in her exams.
(B) As she got herself enrolled in a mountaineering camp, without his permission.
(C) As she did not want to come back to home.
(D) All of the above
(v) Where did she want to get herself enrolled?
(A) In a mountaineering camp in Thiruvananthapuram
(B) In a mountaineering camp in Uttarkashi
(C) In a university in Delhi
(D) In a college in Tripura
But Evelyn was not going to give up. She was determined to lead a normal life and pursue her interest in music. One day she noticed a girl playing a xylophone and decided that she wanted to play it too. Most of the teachers discouraged her but percussionist Ron Forbes spotted her potential. He began by tuning two large drums to different notes. “Don’t listen through your ears.” He would say. “try to sense it some other way.”
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) Name the author.
(iii) What instrument did Evelyn want to play ?
(iv) Who spotted Evelyn’s potential ?
(v) Find the word in the passage which means ‘quality or ability that can be developed.’
I didn’t jump. I didn’t tremble. I didn’t cry out. There was no time to do any such thing. The snake slithered along my shoulder and coiled around my left arm above the elbow. The hood was spread out and its head was hardly three or four inches from my face! It would not be correct to say merely that I sat there holding my breath. I was turned to stone. But my mind was very active. The door opened into darkness. The room was surrounded by darkness. In
the light of the lamp I sat there like a stone image in the flesh.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) Name the author.
(iii) Who is ‘I’ in the above paragraph?
(iv) What was the distance between snake’s hood and the narrator’s face?
(v) What was the room surrounded by ?
Two years ago we were passing through the sugarcane field near Mysore. People were driving way the wild pigs from the field by shooting at them. Some were shot and some escaped. We thought that everything was over when suddenly a black sloth bear came out panting in the hot sun. Now I will not shoot a sloth bear wantonly but unfortunately for the poor beast, one of my good companions did not feel that way about it, and promptly shot the
bear on the spot.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter.
(ii) Name the author.
(iii) What were people driving away from the sugarcane fields?
(iv) Did narrator want to shoot the sloth bear?
(v) Give a word from the passage which means ‘friend’
HBSE Class 9 English Beehive Poetry Based Section Important Passages
He won’t do what you tell him.
So, come, let’s build strong homes.
Let’s joint the doors firmly.
Practise to firm the body.
Make the heart steadfast.
Do this, and the wind will be friends with us.
Questions :
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) Who does ‘he’ refer to in these lines ?
(iii) What should we do to make friends with the wind ?
(iv) What sort of houses does the poet want us to build ?
(v) Pick out a word from the passage that means ‘firm’.
He glides through the water away
from the stroke. O let him go
over the water
into the reeds to hide
without hurt. Small and green
he is harmless even to children.
Questions :
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) Who does ‘he’ refer to in these lines ?
(iii) Where is he going ?
(iv) Of what size and colour is he ?
(v) Is it a harmful snake ?
Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.
Questions:1×5=5
(i) Name the poem from which these lines have been taken.
(i) Name the poet of the poem from which these lines have been taken.
(iii) What does the poet want everyone to remember?
(iv) According to the stanza in which two ways are we all alike ?
(v) Which word here means the same as ‘under’ ?
And being faint with fasting,
For the day was almost done,
He asked her, from her store of cakes,
To give him a single one.
Questions: 1×5=5
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) Who is ‘he’ in this extract?
(iii) Why is he about to faint?
(iv) What does he want?
(v) Find a word from the above extract that means the same as ‘hunger’.
When the humid shadows hover
Over all the starry spheres
And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in rainy tears,
What a bliss to press the pillow
Of a cottage-chamber bed
And lie listening to the patter
Of the soft rain overhead !
Questions : 1 × 4 = 4
(a) What are the humid shadows ?
(b) What do they do ?
(c) Why does the poet call darkness melancholy ?
(d) What does the poet like to do when it rains ?
He came to the door of a cottage,
In travelling round the earth,
Where a little woman was making cakes,
And baking them on the hearth :
Questions : 1 × 4 = 4
(a) Who does “he” refer to in the first line ?
(b) What was “he” doing ?
(c) Who was making cakes ?
(d) What is a hearth ?
The snake trying
to escape the pursuing stick,
with sudden curvings of thin
long body. How beautiful
and graceful are his shapes!
Choose the correct option : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem from which these lines have been taken.
(A) The Road Not Taken
(B) Wind
(C) Rain on the Roof
(D) The Snake Trying
(ii) Who is the poet of the poem ?
(A) William Shakespeare
(B) Subramania Bharati
(C) W.W.E. Ross
(D) Charles Dickens
(iii) What was the snake trying in the poem ?
(A) To eat
(B) To choke
(C) To bite
(D) To escape
(iv) What is the snake trying to escape from in the poem ?
(A) The pursuing stick
(B) The forest
(C) The enemy
(D) The rat
(v) The poem revolves around …. .
(A) A harmful snake
(B) A poisonous snake
(C) A harmless snake
(D) A snake that poet considers as his pet
O let him go over the water
into the reeds to hide without hurt.
Small and green he is harmless even to children.
Choose the correct option:
(i) Name the poem from which these lines have been taken :
(A) A Legend of the Northland
(B) The Snake Trying
(C) The Road Not Taken
(D) None of these
(ii) Name the poet of these lines:
(A) Phoebe Cary
(B) W. W. E. Ross
(C) Robert Frost
(D) None of these
(iii) Whom does ‘he’ refer to in these lines?
(A) A snake that is huge.
(B) A lizard that is small and green.
(C) A snake that is poet’s pet.
(D) A snake that is small and green.
(iv) What is the appearance of ‘him’ ?
(A) Blue and Small
(B) Small and Green
(C) Grey and Large
(D) Black and Huge
(v) Is ‘he’ harmless?
(A) Yes
(C) Maybe
(B) No
(D) Don’t know
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(a) Name the poem.
(b) Name the poet.
(c) Of what will the poet make his cabin?
(d) How many bean rows will poet have there?
(e) Does the poet want to live a group of people at the isle?
It takes much time to kill a tree,
Not a simple jab of the knife
Will do it. It has grown
Slowly consuming the earth,
Rising out of it, feeding
Upon its crust, absorbing
Years of sunlight, air, water,
And out if its leprous hide
Sprouting leaves.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(a) Name the poem.
(b) Name the poet.
(c) What will not be done by a simple jab of knife?
(d) What has grown up feeding upon earth’s crust?
(e) What does a tree absorb?