PSEB Class 9 English Grammar Reading Skills all Question and Answers Solution
PSEB Class 9 English Grammar Reading Skills Solution: Punjab Board (PSEB) 9th Class Lesson 9 all questions of grammar answers are in this page.
Composition
Chapter 2
Reading Skills
Prose
A.) Read the passage and answer the questions:
- Circle the correct answer:
1.) Mr. Jones earned his living by giving advice to people.
2.) Mr. Jones was looked after by the landladies.
3.) People of all ages came to visit Mr. Jones.
2.) What did the landladies do for Mr.Jones?
Answer: Landladies did everything they could do for Mr.Jones. They did shopping, prepared meals and did laundry for him.
3.) Write the words in the brackers which in the passage mean:
a.) Not in a good condition – Shabby
b.) Easy to understand – Obvious
c.) Thin and attractive – Slender
4.) Describe Mr. Jones in not more than five sentences.
Answer: Mr. Jones was a man with slender body and distinctive face. He had a birthmark on his left cheek. He was a blind and crippled man. He wore gold-rimmed glasses with black lenses. He had black hair. He had a pale and lean face.
B.) Read the passage and answer the questions:
1.) Where does Yehudi Menuhin live?
Answer: Yehudi lives in London.
2.) What instrument does he play?
Answer: He plays the violin.
3.) When did he perform for the public for the first time?
Answer: He performed for the public for the first time at the age of seven.
4.) Circle the correct answer:
Yehudi Menuhin’s first performance was in:
a.) San Francisco
b.) London
3.) Athens
5.) Does he live in his home-town through out the year?
Answer: No, he spends nine months of the year on tour.
6.) Briefly describe Yehudi Menuhin’s studio.
Answer: The studio looks like a ship. Its walls are covered with pinewood. On the floor there are cotton rugs which were made in Central Asia. The whole of one wall is covered with letters in frames, paintings and prints.
C.) Read the passage and answer the questions:
1.) Why will the new cars be developed?
Answer: The environmental problems of today will give rise to the development of the new cars.
2.) Who is going to develop them?
Answer: London’s Royal College of Art is going to develop them.
3.) How will the future cars be different from the present ones?
Answer: The future cars will be handled by the computers.
4.) How will the future cars have different seating arrangement? Will the new seating arrangement be safe? How?
Answer: The future cars will have a different seating arrangement with adults and children sitting in a family circle. The new seating arrangement might not be safe as the balance would be lost.
5.) Complete the following statements:
a.) The driving will become safer and easier because the computer will do the work.
b.) The future cars will leave the environment clean because there won’t be any pollution.
6.) Write 3-4 sentences about the future car.
Answer: The future car will be different from the present car. It will have a circle seating arrangements. It will be driven by the computers.
- Read the passage and answer the questions:
1.) Is Tokyo environmental friendly? Mention at least three characteristics that go against Tokyo.
Answer: There are few parks or beautiful buildings. There are no mountains or even hills inside or outside the city. The air pollution is terrifying.
2.) Is Tokyo different at night? How?
Answer: At night, millions of neon signs are switched on in Tokyo. The wild and high night life goes on till 10.30 at night.
3.) What makes the city pleasant?
Answer: The city’s atmosphere, its ambience, its feel, its happiness and its sadness, all these things make it pleasant.
4.) Does the author like the city? How does he describe it?
Answer: The author does like the city. He describes it is as a mysterious and lovable city.
5.) Write the words in the brackets which in the passage mean:
a.) Gives satisfaction – Gaiety
b.) Atmosphere – Ambience
E.) Read the passage and answer the questions:
1.) What disappointment does Mikha Singh talk about?
Answer: Milkha Singh is talking about missing an Olympic medal.
2.) Why does his heart bleed?
Answer: His heart bleeds because he missed an Olympic medal by a whisker.
3.) Why does Mikha Singh mention Ron Clarke?
Answer: Milkha Singh mentions Ron Clarke because it was Ron Clarke who had won the Olympic medal.
4.) Write the words in the brackets which in the passage mean:
a.) Thought keeps coming again and again – Haunts
b.) Different from what you expect – Ironical
c.) A narrow margin – Whisker
5.) Which words describe Milkha Singh’s feelings best? Why?
Answer: Disappointment is the word that describes Milkha Singh’s feelings best. It is because he missed the Olympic medal by a whisker.
Poems
A.) Now answer the following questions:
1.) Which country does the airman belong?
Answer: The airman belongs to Ireland.
2.) Who does he hate?
Answer: He hates those for whom he guards.
3.) “Those that I guard I do not love.’ Does this line mean;
a.) He hates the people he guards?
b.) He dislikes the people he guards?
c.) He does not know the people enough to love them?
4.) If he dies, will his country men’s life be affected? Quote the lines that give you the answer.
Answer: No likely end could bring them loss or leave them happier than before.
5.) Why does the poet use ‘waste of breath’ twice?
Answer: To emphasize on the fact that the life he has lived is just a waste.
6.) Does the poet like war? How do you know?
Answer: No, the poet doesn’t like war because for him it is like waste of breath.
7.) Is the tone of the poem:
- Cheerful?
- Sad?
- Encouraging?
- Now answer the following questions:
1.) Where did the two roads diverge?
Answer: The two roads diverge in a yellow wood.
2.) Why did the poet choose the grassy road?
Answer: The poet chose the grassy road because it was the road less taken.
3.) The phrase ‘wanted wear’ means:
a.) the road needs repair
b.) the road was too difficult to travel on
c.) not many people travelled on that road
4.) ‘Yet knowing how many leads on to way’ means the poet is hopeful to come to the road and take another one.
5.) Was the poor certain that he would travel on that road some day? How do you know?
Answer: The poet was not certain that he would travel on that road some day because he didn’t know where it could take him to.
6.) Choose the correct answer:
The poet usesthe word ‘road’ to talk about in life.
a.) meeting failures
b.) taking decisions
c.) facing distractions
7.) The words wood, stood and could rhyme in the first stanza. Which last words rhyme in stanzas 2, 3 and 4?
Answer: Fair – wear
Claim – same
Lay – day – way
Black – back
Sigh – I – by
Hence – difference
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