CLASS IX-C REVISION NO.10 FICTION EXTRACTS – SEE 2019
1.
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.
(i)
Who found the old book?
(ii)
Margie was surprised to see the book because
..................... .
(iii)
What do you mean by real book?
(iv)
Pick out the word which means ‘small’.
2.
Tommy looked at her with very superior
eyes.’Because it’s not our kind of school,stupid. This is the old kind of
school that they had hundreds and hundreds of years ago.’He added loftily.
(i)Why did Tommy call Margie stupid?
(ii)What does ‘they’ refer to ?
(iii)What is the difference between two schools?
(iv)Find the word which means ‘in a superior way’?
3.
But this
aspiring musician faced a bigger challenge than most.
(i)
Identify the musician.
(ii)
Why was learning music a great challenge for the
teenager?
(iii)
What was the origin of the musician?
(iv)
Choose the word that means ‘dare’.
4.
His first trip abroad was to Afghanistan where King Zahir Shah was so taken in by the
maestro that he gifted him priceless Persian carpets and other souvenirs.
(i)
Which country was Bismillah Khan’s first trip
abroad?
(ii)
What did Zahir Shah present Bismillah Khan?
(iii)
Who was the king of Afghanistan?
(iv)
Find the word that means ‘momento’.
5.
‘But it was for your b-b- birthday.’ Down came
the ruler on her little,pink palms.Hours later,when grandmother had wrapped her
in a shawl and rocke her in the rocking-chair,the child clung to her soft body.
‘What did God make fathers for?’ she sobbed.
(i)
Who is responding in the first line and before
whom?
(ii)
How did the father react?
(iii)
She sobbed. Who is ‘she’?
(iv)
Find the
word from the passage that means ‘wept’.
6.
But the same old nightmare came. The butcher
with a knife and a rope who came nearer and
nearer,with that dreadful smile,while she could not move, only stand
still,crying out ‘Grandma!’. She woke shivering to see father beside her bed,a
candle in his hand. ‘What is the matter?’ he said.
(i)
Where did she get the nightmare?
(ii)
Where was the butcher?
(iii)
What was the state of Kezia?
(iv)
Find the word that means ‘shake in fear and
cold’.
7.
“The pair finally got married in January
1903,and had two sons. But a few years later,the marriage faltered.”
(i)
Name the “pair” referred to in the above lines.
(ii)
What happened to their marriage?
(iii)
When did they get married?
(iv)
Find the word that means ‘become weak’.
8.
One day, he invited me to his home for a meal.
His wife was horrified at the idea of a Muslim boy being invited to dine in her ritually pure kitchen. She
refused to serv me in her kitchen. Sivasubramaniam Iyer was not perturbed,nor did he get angry
with his wife,but instead,served me with his own hands and sat down beside me
to eat his meal.
(i)
Who is ‘he’ and ‘me’ in the first sentence?
(ii)
Why was his wife terrified?
(iii)
What was the reaction of ‘wife’?
(iv)
Find the word that means ‘agitated/upset’.
9.
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.
(i)
Who is the ‘latter’ here?
(ii)
What lesson did she learn?
(iii)
Why was her mother compelled to stay back in
Siberia?
(iv)
The word
‘restriction’ means ................... .
10.
We all missed him greatly; but in a sens we were
relieved. My wife was inconsolable. She wept and fretted. For the first few
days she would not eat a thing. Then she wrote a number of letters to the
curator. How was Baba? Back came the replies,’well,but fretting;he refuses food
too’.
(i)
Who was Baba? Where had he been sent?
(ii)
Why was the narrator’s wife weeping and
fretting?
(iii)
Who refused to eat food?
(iv)
Find the word that means ‘a person in charge of
a zoo or a museum’.
11.
I
consider what route I should take back home.If I were propelled by
enthusiasm for travel per se, I would go by bus and train to Patna,then sail up
the Ganges past Benaras to
Allahabad,then up the Yamuna,past Agra
to Delhi. But I am too exhausted and
home sick; today is the last day of August. Go
home. I tell myself ;more directly towards home. I enter a Nepal Airlines office and buy a ticket for
tomorrow’s flight.
(i)
Who is ‘I’ in the extract and what was his
initial plan to go back home?
(ii)
Why did he change his mind?
(iii)
What did he do them?
(iv)
Pick a word from the passage that means as
‘strong feeling of being interested in something’.
12.
For God’s sake clear that muddled head of yours
and let’s go in.Come with me in the car.. I can use you. If you find it’s a frame, you ‘ve got me in the car,and you’ve still got your
gun.
(i)
Who is speaking these lines and to whom?
(ii)
What harm can the other person do to the
speaker?
(iii)
The narrator offers the intruder to come with
him in ..................... .
(iv)
Find the
word that means ‘ confused’.
13.
‘I
took my friend
and one or two others to my room to move my things from there. But we
found we had little to carry.’
(i)
Why did narrator want to remove the things?
(ii)
Why was there little to carry?
(iii)
Write the opposite of ‘friend’.
CLASS IX-C REVISION NO.11 POETRY EXTRACTS – SEE 2019
1.Two roads
diverged in yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller,long I stood
And locked down once as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
(i)
Why
was the traveller feeling sorry?
(ii)
Give
the opposite to ‘met at a point’ from the passage.
(iii)
What
does ‘yellow wood’ stand for?
(iv)
What
do you think about the mood of the poet?
(v)
Write
the rhyme-scheme.
2. I shall be telling this with a
sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence,
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
(i)
How
did the poet make his choice about the roads?
(ii)
What
had made a lot of difference in the poet’s life?
(iii)
What
does the term ‘road’ stand for?
(iv)
Why
was the poet in dilemma?
(v)
Give
an idiom using the word ‘sigh’.
3. The wind blows out weak fires
He makes strong fire roar and flourish
His friendship is good
We praise him everyday.
(i)
How
does the wind affect the weak fires?
(ii)
What
is the effect of the wind on strong fire?
(iii)
Name
the poet.
(iv)
Trace
the word that means ‘flourish’.
(v)
Write
the rhyme-scheme.
4. He won’t do what you tell him,
So, come,let’s build strong homes.
Let’s join the doors firmly
Practice to firm the body
Make the heart steadfast.
(i)
What
does the poet advice?
(ii)
‘He
won’t do what you tell him’, what does it mean?
(iii)
Find
the word that means ‘loyal/faithful’.
(iv)
The
word which stands for ‘to fix’ is
............... .
5.And I shall have some peace there,
for peace comes dropping slow
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
(i)
What
does the word ‘there’ in the above lines refer to?
(ii)
How
does peace enter the huts of peasants?
(iii)
What
does the poet wish to have?
(iv)
Name
the literary device used in the poem.
(v)
Name
the poem and poet.
6. 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.
(i)
Who
does ‘he’ refer in the first line?
(ii)
What
request did ‘he’ make to the woman?
(iii)
Was
the little woman punished or rewarded? Why?
(iv)
Give
a word from the extract that means ‘ fire place’.
(v)
Name
the poem and poet.
7.
It is the human earth that we defile
Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of air that is everywhere our own
Remember,no men are foreign,and no countries strange.
(i)
Name
the poem and poet.
(ii)
What
does the word ‘defile’ mean?
(iii)
What
does ‘hells of fire’ stand for?
(iv)
How
do we humiliate the mother earth?
(v)
When
is the earth defiled?
8. Said the Kangaroo to the Duck,
‘This requires some little reflection;
Perhaps on the whole it might bring me luck,
And there seems but one objection,
Which is, if you’ll let me speak so bold,
Your feet are unpleasantly wet
and cold
And would probably give me the roo-
Matiz!’ said the Kangaroo.
(i)
Name
the poet.
(ii)
What
is the rhyme-scheme of the poem.
(iii)
Why
did the Kangaroo require little reflection?
(iv)
Kangaroo
had one objection. What was it?
(v)
Give
a word from the extract that is the opposite to ‘timid’.
9.No,
The root is to be pulled out-
Out of the anchoring earth;
It is to be roped,tied,
And pulled out-snapped out
Or pulled out entirely.
(i)Where does the strength of a tree
lie?
(ii) What is the meaning of
‘anchoring earth’?
(iii)
Name the poet.
(iv)
What
would happen if a tree is only hacked and chopped?
10. He glides through the water away
From the stroke. Oh! Let him go
Over the water
Into the reeds to hide
Without hurt. Small and green
He is harmless even to the children.
(i)
Who
does ‘He’ in the first line stand for?
(ii)
The
snake is .......................... .
(iii)
Why
is the snake going into the water?
(iv)
Find
a word that is opposite to ‘seek’.
11. A slumber did my spirit seal –
I had no human fears.
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
No motion has she now,no force –
She neither hears nor sees,
Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course
With rocks and stones and trees.
(i)
What
had sealed the narrator’s spirit?
(ii)
Name
the poetic device used in the first line.
(iii)
Explain
the line,’suumber did my spirit seal’.
(iv)
Find
the word which is the opposite to ‘static’.
LISTENING ACTIVITY - CLASS IX C 25.11.2019
It takes much time to kill a tree,
Not a simple ....... 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 of its .......... hide
Sprouting leaves.
Not a simple ....... 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 of its .......... hide
Sprouting leaves.
So hack and chop
But this alone wont do it.
Not so much pain will do it.
The ................ bark will heal
And from close to the ground
Will rise curled green twigs,
Miniature boughs
Which if.....................will expand again
To former size.
But this alone wont do it.
Not so much pain will do it.
The ................ bark will heal
And from close to the ground
Will rise curled green twigs,
Miniature boughs
Which if.....................will expand again
To former size.
No,
The root is to be ............ out -
Out of the anchoring earth;
It is to be roped, tied,
And pulled out - ............. out
Or pulled out entirely,
Out from the earth-cave,
And the strength of the tree exposed,
The source, white and wet,
The most sensitive, hidden
For years inside the earth.
The root is to be ............ out -
Out of the anchoring earth;
It is to be roped, tied,
And pulled out - ............. out
Or pulled out entirely,
Out from the earth-cave,
And the strength of the tree exposed,
The source, white and wet,
The most sensitive, hidden
For years inside the earth.
Then the matter
Of ................ and choking
In sun and air,
Browning, ..................,
Twisting, ....................,
And then it is ................
Of ................ and choking
In sun and air,
Browning, ..................,
Twisting, ....................,
And then it is ................
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