Tuesday 5 September 2017

DAY FOURTEEN - COMPREHENSIONS (ENGLISH GUESS PAPER FOR CLASS 9)

COMPREHENSION OF A PASSAGE

1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given at the end. 
     Early rising is a good habit as it gives us early start of our day's work. We gain time while the late risers are asleep. The early risers have another advantage also and that is they enjoy good and sound health. Those who are out of bed early have plenty of time to do their work carefully, steadily and completely. They do not have to put off anything to the next day. The early riser is always happy, fresh and smart. He enjoys his work while those who get up late find their duty dull and dry and do it unwillingly. Early rising is therefore, a key to success in life. 

(i) What kind of habit early rising is?
Ans. Early rising is a good habit as it gives us early start of our day's work. 
(ii) Why can an early riser do more work than the later riser?
Ans. It is because he gains time while the late riser is asleep. 
(iii) Why does an early riser enjoy good health?
Ans. He enjoys good health because he is always happy, fresh and smart. 
(iv) Why does a late riser find his work dull and dry?
Ans. It is because he does his work unwillingly. 
(v) What is the key to success in life?
Ans. Early rising is the key to success in life. 

2. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given at the end. 
     Iqbal is not only the greatest poet of our age, but also one of the greatest poets of all times. There are not many poets who wrote as many great poems as he did. He did not write poetry for poetry's sake. He was in fact much more than a mere poet. He was a learned man. He was a great scholar and philosopher. He was a political leader of great importance. But more than anything he was a Muslim who had a great love for Allah and the Rassolullah (SAW). He wrote poetry to express the great and ever lasting truths of philosophy, history and Islam. He wrote poetry to awaken the Muslims of the whole world from the deep sleep and asked them to unite. 

(i) Why is Iqbal considered to be one of the greatest poets of all times?
Ans. It is because there are not many poets who wrote as many great poems as he did. 
(ii) Did he write poetry for poetry's sake?
Ans. No, he did not write poetry for poetry's sake. 
(iii) How can you say that Iqbal was much more than a mere poet? 
Ans. He was a learned man, a great scholar and philosopher, and a political leader of great importance. 
(iv) What kind of Muslim was Iqbal?
Ans. He was a Muslim who had a great love for Allah and the Rasoolullah (SAW). 
(v) With what aim did he write poetry?
Ans. He wrote poetry to awaken the Muslims from the deep sleep of ignorance. 
(vi) What was Iqbal's call to the Muslims of the whole world?
Ans. His call to the Muslims of the whole world was to 'be united'. 

3. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given at the end. 
     One day a girl found a coin. It rolled away before her broom when she was sweeping the yard, and fell with a clatter against the wall. She ran and picked it up. Someone had dropped it while crossing the yard and perhaps had not even troubled to look for it. It was worth little. But it seemed a whole fortune to her, who never had anything of her own before. She rubbed it clean on the sleeve of her blue cotton jacket and put it into her pocket. 

(i) What did the girl find? 
Ans. She found a coin. 
(ii) When did she find it?
Ans. She found it when she was sweeping the yard. 
(iii) How had the coin been there?
Ans. Someone had dropped it while crossing the yard. 
(iv) What was the worth of the coin?
Ans. It was worth little. 
(v) Why was it a whole fortune for her?
Ans. It was because she never had anything of her own before. 
(vi) How did she clean it?
Ans. She rubbed it clean on the sleeve of her jacket. 
(vii) What did she do after cleaning it?
Ans. She put it into her pocket. 

4. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given at the end. 
     In December, 1930 Dr. Muhammad Iqbal was invited to preside over the annual meeting of the All India Muslim League at Allahabad. In his address he openly opposed the idea of power-sharing together of Hindus and Muslims as one nation. He declared that the move to apply one constitution to both the Hindus and Muslims would result in a civil war. He wanted to see the Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a single state for the Muslims, so that they should live according to the teachings of Islam. We can say that Allama Iqbal was the first thinker to give us the idea of a separate homeland for the Muslims of India i.e. partition of the Sub-continent into two sovereign states. The Muslims soon realized the importance of the demand for two separate states. It was then the Pakistan Resolution was adopted in 1940. 

(i) Where was the annual meeting of the All India Muslim League held in 1930?
Ans. It was held at Allahabad. 
(ii) Who was invited to preside over the session?
Ans. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal was invited to preside over the session. 
(iii) What idea did Allama Iqbal oppose?
Ans. He opposed the idea of power-sharing together of Hindus and Muslims as one nation. 
(iv) Which provinces did he want to be included in the Muslim state?
Ans. Those were; Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 
(v) On what grounds did he demand a separate state for the Muslims of India?
Ans. He wanted that the Muslims could live according to the teachings of Islam. 
(vi) When was the Pakistan Resolution moved?
Ans. It was moved in 1940. 

5. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given at the end. 
     There was once a man whose doctor gave him medicine which was quite black. His servant who was illiterate made a mistake and poured out a dose of ink in place of the drug. He gave it to his master who drank it. After the patient had taken the dose of ink the servant somehow realized his mistake. He ran back to his master and said, "Sir, I have given you a dose of ink instead of the medicine as both were equally black, what should be done now?" The master replied softly, "Now give me a piece of blotting paper to swallow."

(i) What was the colour of the medicine? 
Ans. It was quite black. 
(ii) What did the servant give to his master?
Ans. He gave him a dose of ink in place of the drug. 
(iii) When did the servant come to know of his mistake?
Ans. After the master had taken the dose of ink the servant came to know of his mistake. 
(iv) What did the servant do? 
Ans. The servant told his master the truth. 
(v) What did the master say to his servant?
Ans. He said, "Now give me a piece of blotting paper to swallow."

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